Program Overview

Integrated Science Program

The Integrated Science program is an individualized course of study that allows students to customize their degree to align with specific academic and professional goals, particularly in areas not offered within existing departmental curricula. This program can be completed in person or through an online degree completion option, providing flexibility to meet a variety of student needs.

Program Overview

With guidance from a faculty advisory committee, students select courses across multiple disciplines to create a personalized and interdisciplinary plan of study that reflects their unique interests and aspirations.

College

• College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Hours Required

• 120 credit hours

Program Features

Make Your Major

Create an individualized program of study by tailoring your classes to match your interests across multiple concentration areas.

Online Degree Completion

Create concentration areas from a vast number of online courses or pursue pre-defined online concentrations.

Connect with Your Advisor and Mentor

You will be assigned a professional adviser and a faculty mentor who will help you create your customized degree pathway and identify experiential learning opportunities.

Notable Courses

• Dynamics of Effective Leadership in Organizations (ALEC 302): Principle and process of effective leadership in complex organizations of society and commerce. Dynamic interactions of personal characteristics, technical skills, interpersonal influence, commitment, goals, and power.
• Plant Science (PLAS 131): Explore plant biology for food, fuel, fiber & funstarting with ecosystems, then diving into water
  utrient uptake, and wrapping with carbon assimilation, metabolism & growth in changing environments.
• Business Systems and Entrepreneurship (EAEP 388): Introductory models for a startup business. Ideation, customer segments, value proposition, minimal viable product, and market fit.
• People and the Land: Human Environmental Interactions on the Great Plains (NRES 289): Explore human environmental interaction on the Great Plains. Samples a variety of Great Plains cultures and time periods to explore past use of the Great Plains environment.
• Agricultural Development in Developing Countries (AECN 367): Exploration of the nature of traditional agriculture in developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America and alternative approaches to accelerating its development. Explores the role of the agricultural sector in the overall development process.

Career Opportunities

Internships

• Crop scouting, Aurora Coop, Aurora, Nebraska
• Extension intern, University of NebraskaLincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Sales intern, Dow AgroSciences, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Marketing and communications intern, Agriculture Future of America, Kansas City, Missouri

Careers

• Extension assistant, University of NebraskaLincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Agricultural production, Hoegermeyer Farms, Herman, Nebraska
• Sales associate, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Laurel, Nebraska
• Soil conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Grant, Nebraska

Graduate Schools

• Leadership education, University of NebraskaLincoln
• Environmental science and policy, Indiana University
• Agronomy-plant pathology, University of NebraskaLincoln
• Management and organizations, University of Colorado-Denver
• Law, University of Nebraska College of Law