This course introduces Purdue Agriculture students to social issues that influence the future of science innovation and the agriculture industry. It will particularly focus on areas of apparent disconnect with regard to agriculture, scientific evidence and the general public. In order to learn how to communicate with others on controversial issues, concepts of engagement will be discussed as ways to better understand audiences and find areas of common interest. Featuring guest speakers on current social issues, students will learn how issues impact the agriculture industry and science innovation and consider how to engage stakeholders regarding these concerns.

ASEC 10100 Agriculture, Science And Social Issues

Agriculture, Science And Social Issues

This course provides an introduction to agricultural communication as a professional field, including its current status and role within the larger U.S. mass media system. The course will also provide an overview of career options and professional skills and competencies required of agricultural communicators.

ASEC 15200 Agricultural Communication Seminar

Agricultural Communication Seminar

(HORT 21200) This course will prepare future educators in using a greenhouse and landscape as teaching tools. The key focus will be preparing students to apply greenhouse and landscape management fundamentals in order to teach these concepts in the classroom. Laboratories will explore how to identify and produce both woody and herbaceous plants while safely maintaining and operating greenhouse technologies. Students will also explore how to implement landscape design technologies and identify tools, equipment, and landscape plants. Permission of instructor required.

ASEC 21200 Greenhouse And Landscape Fundamentals For Educators

Greenhouse And Landscape Fundamentals For Educators

Development of an understanding of the origin, scope, and objectives of agricultural education; role of the agricultural science and business teacher as a professional educator; basic responsibilities of a teacher of agricultural science and business; and significance of legislation affecting agricultural education. Typically offered Fall Spring.

ASEC 24000 Seminar In Agricultural Education

Seminar In Agricultural Education

Students will plan, shoot, and edit videos; collaborate in teams; plan and generate social media; and write feature pieces for digital platforms. Students will gain meaningful digital storytelling experiences that will enhance their understanding of various platforms and build their professional portfolios. Typically offered Fall Spring.

ASEC 28000 Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling

Introduction to pre-press production of professional-quality publications. Emphasis on computer applications for publication layout, design and production. Topics include composition, readability, typography, graphic resolution, and color management systems. Typically offered Spring.

ASEC 28500 Introduction To Publication Design

Introduction To Publication Design

Open primarily to freshmen and sophomores who desire to study special problems in agricultural communication, agricultural education, life science education, extension education, leadership education or youth development not covered in regular coursework. To be arranged with instructor or departmental representative prior to registering. Permission of instructor required.

ASEC 29000 Develop Serv Lead Skills

Develop Serv Lead Skills

ASEC 29000 Developing Servant Leadership

Developing Servant Leadership

ASEC 29000 Jamaica Study Abroad Prep

Jamaica Study Abroad Prep

This course uses a combination of readings, videos, experiential activities, presentations, and face-to-face & virtual excursions/engagement with "other/different" international cultural groups to deepen students' ownership of their own learning and to identify and understand both similarities and differences in values and social norms across countries and cultures. Students will enhance their intercultural communication skills, their emotional resilience, and their ability to engage effectively and equitably in conversations and partnerships with people from other countries and cultures.

ASEC 30100 Building Intercultural Partnerships

Building Intercultural Partnerships

Record keeping and supervisory skills needed to advise and coordinate supervised agricultural experience programs for secondary agricultural science and business students.  Integration of supervised agricultural experiences with programming in youth organizations and classroom instruction for secondary agricultural science and business classrooms. Typically offered Fall.

ASEC 31800 Coordination Of Supervised Agricultural Experience Programs

Coordination Of Supervised Agricultural Experience Programs

Development of course content plans that coordinate and utilize agricultural science and business, community resources, FFA, and supervised agricultural experience programs. Typically offered Spring.

ASEC 31900 Planning Agricultural Science And Business Programs

Planning Agricultural Science And Business Programs

This course is designed to introduce pre-service agricultural education teachers to laboratory integration into the agricultural education curriculum at the middle school and secondary school level. Emphasis is placed on laboratory safety, skill acquisition, developing knowledge of laboratory components in Agriscience, laboratory utilization, facilitating student learning in the laboratory setting, appropriate teaching methods and techniques, curriculum applications, and classroom resources. Travel to on and off-campus sites will be required.

ASEC 34000 Laboratory Practices In Agricultural Education

Laboratory Practices In Agricultural Education

This course is designed to expose students to appropriate teaching techniques, curricula and resources within agricultural education. Procedures for designing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum will be examined. Emphasis will be placed on new and emerging areas in agriculture, food, and natural resources.  Typically offered Spring.

ASEC 34100 Curriculum Development In Agricultural Education

Curriculum Development In Agricultural Education

This course will utilize case studies of controversial science news to explore the multiple factors that converge to influence how science and technology become controversial issues across a variety of social/ political domains. In addition to foundational understanding of communication theory, students will develop two primary skills: 1) a structure for the critical analysis of science news, 2) the skills to meaningfully communicate across stakeholders. The science content (GMOs, climate change, pesticide use, etc.) will provide the background information for analysis of the main focus of the course, which is in learning the communication process for effectively communicating science to non-science audiences. Case studies and applied critical media theory will be utilized to explore such controversies as climate change, genetically modified foods, and other emergent science controversies.

ASEC 35500 Controversial Science And Media In The Public Sphere

Controversial Science And Media In The Public Sphere

Students gain hands-on studio experiences in all phases of features writing, storytelling, and production. Students will analyze audiences, generate story ideas, research, interview, write, edit, shoot photos, plan social media, design pages, and can shoot short-form video. Typically offered Fall Spring.

ASEC 38000 Feature Writing And Production

Feature Writing And Production

This course trains students to communicate about controversial science and emerging technology in contested environments. Additionally, the course covers public engagement principles for science topics and how to communicate risks in the context of agriculture, and natural resources science and technology.

ASEC 38500 Communication Strategies For Controversial Issues In ANR

Communication Strategies For Controversial Issues In ANR

A team-based laboratory course for students who seek experience working with international partners to plan and conduct quality service-learning projects. Using established partner relationships, students will work with international partners to address hands-on, real-world, identified challenges to learn the principles of extension methodology and sustainable community development by integrating their discipline knowledge and technical skills from previous courses. Students will also learn the intercultural communication, market analysis, project design and planning, entrepreneurial business planning for micro-credit loans and business ventures, and cultural factors affecting community food security while they work in bi-national teams to determine how best to apply their classroom knowledge and experience to respond to partners' needs and local resource constraints.

ASEC 43100 Planning For International Engagement Methods

Planning For International Engagement Methods

Designed for students who have just returned from the Engagement Methods for Int'l Food Security course or have previous experience working with our partners. In order to 1) fully comprehend the impact of the experience and 2) foster true long-term relationships with and service to our partners, it is required to work on our projects when we return. Matt McGregor, Former Exec. Dir. of Timmy Global Health, told us that "it's not really about the trip". It is essential that we accomplish: 1) Closure of trip experiences with partners and contacts - thank you's and complete follow-up; 2) Reflection of Purdue student experiences and personal goals/follow-up actions; 3) Promotion of food insecurity realities and opportunities for support; and 4) Planning, recommendations, and promotion of future service learning courses.

ASEC 43120 Evaluating International Engagement Methods

Evaluating International Engagement Methods

Principles and procedures for teaching agricultural science and business in public schools. Must be admitted to teacher education program.

ASEC 44000 Methods Of Teaching Agricultural Education

Methods Of Teaching Agricultural Education

Prepares graduating students for entry to the workplace, assesses and enhances their communication knowledge and skills, and provides project experiences that will demonstrate their ability to communicate scientific and technical information through a variety of media. Projects will include student presentations and magazine style articles on issues of concern to agricultural and general audiences; and a final project that requires students to conceive and create a web site that uses converging media to communicate effectively a topical issue.

ASEC 48000 Agricultural Communication Capstone Seminar

Agricultural Communication Capstone Seminar

This is an interactive learning course in science and environmental communication with a strong emphasis on development of practical writing and communication skills for students who will become professionals in environment or natural resources. The public primarily obtains environmental information through the media, as such, scientists need to develop the understanding and skills necessary to engage with a range of audiences through the design of effective communication products. This course provides a unique balance of communication theory and skills training in which students develop the confidence to meaningfully communicate environmental issues.

ASEC 48500 Environmental Communication

Environmental Communication

Open to undergraduates who desire to study special problems in agricultural communications, agricultural education, or youth development not covered in regular coursework. To be arranged with the instructor or departmental representative prior to registering. Permission of instructor required.

ASEC 49000 Applying Adobe CS Apps

Applying Adobe CS Apps

ASEC 49000 Photography In Ag Com

Photography In Ag Com

ASEC 49000 AGCM Capstone Project

AGCM Capstone Project

ASEC 49000 Vet Curriculum Resources

Vet Curriculum Resources

ASEC 49000 AGCM Teaching & Ind Study

AGCM Teaching & Ind Study

ASEC 49000 Editing Independent Study

Editing Independent Study

Designed for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, but have enough student interest to justify formalized teaching of an undergraduate-level course. The course may be repeated by a student as long as the topic being taught is not repeated.  The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student's record. To be arranged with the instructor or departmental representative prior to registering. Permission of instructor required.

ASEC 49100 Field Experience In Agricultur

Field Experience In Agricultur

Designed for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, but have enough student interest to justify formalized teaching of an undergraduate-level course. The course may be repeated by a student as long as the topic being taught is not repeated. The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student's record. To be arranged with the instructor or departmental representative prior to registering. Permission of instructor required.

ASEC 49100 Research In Science Comm

Research In Science Comm

ASEC 49100 Intercultural Europe Engagemnt

Intercultural Europe Engagemnt

ASEC 49100 Global Food Animal Storytellin

Global Food Animal Storytellin

ASEC 49100 Communicating Controversl Sci

Communicating Controversl Sci

ASEC 49100 Publ Rel In Ag & Nat Resources

Publ Rel In Ag & Nat Resources

Designed for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, but have enough student interest to justify formalized teaching of an undergraduate-level course.  The course may be repeated by a student as long as the topic being taught is not repeated.  The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student's record.  To be arranged with the instructor or departmental representative prior to registering. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

ASEC 49100 Intro Infrml CommunBas Educ

Intro Infrml CommunBas Educ

For Honors students only doing specialized youth development and agricultural education research. Arrange with academic advisor and honors research coordinator before registering.

ASEC 49700 Thesis Research

Thesis Research

Application of principles of agricultural and extension education. Emphasis on program development, supervised experience programs, and effective organization of an agricultural and extension education program.

ASEC 54000 Program Development In Agricultural And Extension Education

Program Development In Agricultural And Extension Education

The course focuses on the background and history of STEM movement and agricultural education, contemporary models, strategies, and justification for incorporation of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts and practices into K-12 formal and non-formal agricultural education programs. Consider and develop the best practices for STEM teaching and learning and enhancement of STEM content in agriculture, food and natural resources (AFNR) context. The goal of the course is to help students develop knowledge about STEM integration and equip them with teaching knowledge and skills for designing K-12 lesson plans by using integrated STEM through AFNR. Students will learn strategies that promote engagement in integrated STEM through AFNR activities. At the end of the course, students should be able to design and implement research-based integrated STEM through AFNR lesson plans and assessment plans. Typically offered Spring.

ASEC 54500 Teaching STEM Through Agriculture, Food And Natural Resources

Teaching STEM Through Agriculture, Food And Natural Resources

The purpose of this course it to provide a basic understanding of program evaluation processes, concepts, and theories and to develop expertise needed to design and conduct systematic evaluation of formal and non-formal programs.

ASEC 55000 Program Evaluation In Formal And Non-formal Settings

Program Evaluation In Formal And Non-formal Settings

An overview of cross-disciplinary, cultural, theoretical frameworks, communication tools, and assessment methods applied to international agricultural development and engagement. Lectures, panel discussions, and case studies on appropriate methods of development and engagement, international project planning, intercultural effectiveness, principles of sustainable agricultural, food, community development, and program/project monitoring and evaluation will be the basis of assignments and team work. This eight-week course will provide the theoretical and social frameworks and principles needed to successfully work in multi-agency partnerships on international development projects. Typically offered Spring Summer.

ASEC 55100 International Engagement And Development Strategies

International Engagement And Development Strategies

(EDCI 56500) Principles of adult education applied to helping adults learn, evaluating their performance, and determining their needs. Examines history, philosophy, and research of adult education. Explores techniques required in design and delivery of instruction for adults.

ASEC 56500 Principles Of Adult Education

Principles Of Adult Education

The goal of this course is to introduce students to the use and application of statistics with a particular focus on descriptive and inferential analysis procedures. This course will also introduce students to the use of statistical software, namely the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS). Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring.

ASEC 58200 Introduction To The Application Of Inferential Statistics

Introduction To The Application Of Inferential Statistics

This course utilizes foundational research and commentary from scholars to track the evolution of media and our ability as scientists to understand and effectively communicate these issues to a non-science audience. Science and technology are evolving faster than societies ability to understand, assimilate, and make policies to address these increasingly complex issues. As a result, controversies arise over issues such as climate change, forest management, genetically modified foods, energy choices, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, water management, and agricultural practices, etc. This course covers the range of issues in the field of science communication including: the nature of science, how to translate evidence for a lay audience, media practices, reporting and qualifying uncertainty, human psychology and belief systems, information processing, and the most current research for messaging science. We will work together to examine the foundational scholarly literature in this area and how it is/ or is not reflected in construction of popular media. You will use this knowledge to construct both compelling oral science narratives, and a science story for popular consumption. Typically offered Spring.

ASEC 58500 Science Communication

Science Communication

A study of special problems in agricultural communications, agricultural education, or youth development not covered in regular coursework. To be arranged with the instructor or departmental representative prior to registering. Permission of instructor required.

ASEC 59000 Theories Of Career Exploration

Theories Of Career Exploration

ASEC 59000 Exploring Extension Program Ev

Exploring Extension Program Ev

ASEC 59000 System Lit Rev Of Sci Reason &

System Lit Rev Of Sci Reason &

ASEC 59000 Pedagogical Design Capacity

Pedagogical Design Capacity

ASEC 59000 Exp Mindfulness Percep Ex Ed

Exp Mindfulness Percep Ex Ed

ASEC 59000 Building Intercultural Partner

Building Intercultural Partner

ASEC 59000 Equine Education: Connection

Equine Education: Connection

ASEC 59000 Agr Ext Education In Rwanda

Agr Ext Education In Rwanda

ASEC 59000 Survey Design And Development

Survey Design And Development

Specialized topics not covered in other courses. Topics, requirements, and credits to be determined yearly. To be arranged with the instructor or departmental representative prior to registering. Permission of instructor required.

ASEC 59100 Prog Eval Frml & InFrml Set

Prog Eval Frml & InFrml Set

ASEC 59100 Conduct Anly & Writing Lit Rev

Conduct Anly & Writing Lit Rev

ASEC 59100 Cond & Writing Lit Rev

Cond & Writing Lit Rev

ASEC 59100 Global Engagement Challenges

Global Engagement Challenges

Specialized topics not covered in other courses.  Topics, requirements, and credits to be determined yearly.  To be arranged with the instructor or departmental representative prior to registering. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

ASEC 59100 Global Learning For AFNR

Global Learning For AFNR

A special course designed to provide practical field experience under professional supervision in selected situation related to the student's area of specialization. Amount of credit to be determined by the nature and extent of the assignment. To be arranged with the instructor of departmental representative prior to registering. Permission of instructor required.

ASEC 59500 Internship In Agricultural Sciences Education And Communication

Internship In Agricultural Sciences Education And Communication

This course is a graduate level seminar of major issues concerning adolescents, with attention to developmental perspective. The social ecology of adolescent development--an understanding of adolescents in their social contexts--is emphasized.

ASEC 62000 Adolescent Development In Context

Adolescent Development In Context

The goal of this course is to introduce students to a variety of theoretical perspectives of learning and development and how they may be used in both formal, informal and non-formal educational settings. This goal will be achieved through students' analysis of key concepts, assumptions, propositions and principles of four theoretical areas: (1) Foundational Learning Theory, (2) Student Development Theory, (3) Career & Workforce Development Theory and (4) Youth Development & Experiential Learning Theory. This course will also build on students' prior exposure to behaviorist, cognitive, and constructivist approaches of learning and development. In sum, many of the theories discussed in this course will provide students with a greater understanding of human thought and behavior that will help them become more effective educators, researchers and practitioners. Permission of instructor required.

ASEC 63000 Theories Of Learning And Development

Theories Of Learning And Development

Students are familiarized with planning and presenting ASEC research through written and oral presentations based on the student's proposed thesis topic. Weekly attendance and participation at seminars help graduate students use appropriate and effective presentation skills, understand expectations regarding responsible conduct of research, and learn about current topics in ASEC related research areas.

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