Agriculture and the Undergraduate

Board on Agriculture, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Overview; 3 Title Page; 4 1 Introduction; 5 Part I: Conference Papers; 6 2 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The University Vantage Point; 7 3 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Public Policy Vantage Point; 8 4 The Challenges for Professional Education in Agriculture: A Corporate Vantage Point; 9 5 The Environmental Curriculum: An Undergraduate Land-Grant Future?; 10 6 Environment and Ecology: Greening the Curriculum, A Public Policy Perspective; 11 7 The Inherent Value of the College Core Curriculum; 12 8 General Education and the New Curriculum; 13 9 Agriculture: A System, a Science, or a Commodity; 14 10 Educating a Culturally Diverse Professional Work Force for the Agriculural, Food, and Natural Resource System; 15 11 Scientific Literacy: The Enemy is Us; 16 12 The Priority: Undergraduate Professional Education as the Priority; 17 13 Positioning Undergraduate Professional Education as the Priority; 18 14 Science, Technology, and the Public; 19 15 A Challenge, a Charge, and a Commitment; 20 Part II: Conference Discussions; 21 16 Teaching and Research: Balance as an Imperative; 22 17 Rewarding Excellence in Teaching: An Administrative Challenge; 23 18 Integrating Agriculture into Precollege Education: Opportunities from Kindergarten to Grade 12; 24 19 Toward Integrative Thinking: A Teaching Challenge; 25 20 Striving Toward Cultural Diversity; 26 21 Designing an Environmentally Responsible Undergraduate Curriculum; 27 22 Breaking Tradiations in Curriculum Design; 28 23 Changing the Image of Agriculture Through Curriculum Innovation; 29 24 Teaching Science as Inquiry; 30 25 Emphasizing the Social Sciences and Humanities; 31 26 Teaching Agricultural Science as a System; 32 27 The Social and Ethical Context of Agriculture: Is It There and Can We Teach It?; 33 28 The Economic Context of Agriculture; 34 29 The Global Context of Agriculture; 35 Appendixes; 36 A: Program Participants; 37 B: Poster Exhibits