Topics and credits to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Topics include emotional intelligence, leading change, political leadership, facilitating agreement, team building, and managing conflict in agricultural and natural resource settings. Includes 4 weeks of classroom instruction and 30 hours of observations in a classroom setting. Community-based program planning, utilizing partners, program marketing, and professional development are addressed as strategies for achieving excellence. Consent of Instructor required.
Maximum of 6 credits toward a degree.For nonthesis program. Roadmap. Muir was a farmer, inventor, explorer, botanist, glaciologist, conservationist, and noted nature author. The degree can be obtained with emphasis inOrientation to programs, philosophies, competencies and leadership skills needed by professionals in agricultural and technology education, extension education, agricultural communications, and related career opportunities in industry, governmental agencies, and international organizations.Development of competencies in agricultural mechanics including safety, tool identification, operation and maintenance of hand and power tools, cold metal, drafting, and plumbing procedures.
Same as A four-to-fourteen-week supervised learning experience in an approved teaching setting with application to educational, agricultural, technological, communications, public relations, or environmental practices. For students who have no prior education in teaching methods.The adult and postsecondary learner; adult learning styles and principles; use of community resources and problem-solving techniques; and learning strategies for adults in formal and nonformal education. Designed for any major wishing to improve mechanical skills needed in agriculturally related occupations in education and industry.Instruction and skill development in process and procedures of metal fusion, including gas and electric welding techniques, safety, and oxy-acetylene cutting and welding. Introduction to research design and methodology in education and behavioral sciences. Same as Semester-long off-campus professional experience in directed teaching and observation provided in selected centers under secondary agricultural and technology supervising teachers.
An undergraduate statistics course recommended.Investigates leadership concepts and group dynamics as they relate to a changing world and complex agricultural and natural resource issues. Includes principles of teaching and learning styles, levels of cognition, syllabus development, lesson planning, teaching using a variety of methods, and evaluating students. Topics include emotional intelligence, leading change, political leadership, facilitating agreement, team building, and managing conflict in agricultural and natural resource settings. Explores the roles, functions, and tasks of volunteers and managers of volunteers including recruitment, orientation and training, supervision, evaluation, recognition and retention.On-line course explores 4-H Youth Development as an integral part of the Cooperative Extension Service. He was influential in the National Parks movement and in starting the Sierra Club. We seek to improve the lives of New Mexicans, the nation, and the world through they will encounter in the "real world" following graduation from our university. Taught with Introduction to agricultural topics (products, people, environment, culture, etc.) Community-based program planning, utilizing partners, program marketing, and professional development are addressed as strategies for achieving excellence.
The department offers a broad-based curriculum with majors, options and minors that prepare students for many careers as professional educators, communicators and leaders in agricultural, natural resource, technology and related disciplines.
Explores the roles, functions, and tasks of volunteers and managers of volunteers including recruitment, orientation and training, supervision, evaluation, recognition and retention.
Emphasis on practical application, utilizing a research and academic base. Same as Introduction to concepts of development, the process of change, key factors that contribute to agricultural and rural development in a community, and strategies employed to effect change with implications for international students or domestic students planning to work internationally.This course prepares students to develop curriculum, design lessons, and prepare appropriate assessments in an agricultural education setting. Focus on planning, delivering, and evaluating instruction in laboratories; and on CPR, first aid, and NCCER certifications.
agricultural careers, and international agricultural development, while different in Same as Examines the teaching and learning process, emphasizing the use of appropriate methods for teaching career and technical education subjects to youth or adults in formal and nonformal educational settings. Overview of common research designs and data collection strategies.
Introduction to Agricultural topics (products, people, environment, culture, etc) that affect international development.