Agriculture Courses Approved

The University of California (UC) has partnered with Agriculture Education Programs around the state to facilitate procedures for adding approved agriculture courses to the UC-approved course lists of high schools.

In order for students to benefit from UC-approved agriculture education coursework, the school must teach the course(s) following the CDE standardized curriculum and the approved agriculture courses must be listed on your high school's course list. To do so, the counselor, assistant principal, or other school staff member who is responsible for regularly updating the UC "a-g" course list must request that these courses be added to your school's "a-g" course list. This should be done during the regular course list update process.

Please note that the following agriculture courses have been approved by UC. For reference, the course descriptions of the approved courses are all available on this web site under Course Descriptions.

• Agricultural Biology – approved as a college preparatory course to meet the "d" laboratory science requirement, yearlong course.
• Agriculture Business & Economics – approved as a college preparatory course to meet the "g" elective requirement, yearlong course.
• Agriculture & Natural Resources – approved as a college preparatory course to meet the "g" elective requirement, yearlong course.
• Agriculture Science II – approved as a college preparatory course to meet the "g" elective requirement, yearlong course.
• Animal Science – approved as a college preparatory course to meet the "g" elective requirement, year-long course.
• Environmental Horticulture Science – approved as a college preparatory course to meet the "g" elective requirement, yearlong course.
• Plant & Soil Science – approved as a college preparatory course to meet the "g" elective requirement, yearlong course.
• Veterinary Science – approved as a college preparatory course to meet the "g" elective requirement, yearlong course.

In order for the administrator or counselor responsible for updating your school’s "a-g" course list to request the addition of the above agriculture course(s) to your school’s course list, he/she should follow the procedures described in the attached letter [MS Word].