| January 15 |
Introductions, Get Acquainted and Orientation to the Course
Review of Syllabus
Course Objectives and Expectations
What is meant by the sociology of agriculture?
The Influence of Western Europe on American Agriculture and Rural Society
An Extension of Western Europe into the New World
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapter 1 and 2 |
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| January 17 |
Professor Arne Hallam—Why ethics are a critical component of agricultural business and ethical standards relate to understanding the changing nature of agriculture and rural life. Part One
Reading assignment--Morality and Moral Philosophy - Beauchamp
Concept of a Moral Position - Dworkin
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| January 22 |
Professor Arne Hallam—Ethics and Agriculture. Part Two
Reading assignment--The Human Predicament - Warnock
The Doctrine of the Double Effect - Foot
The Moral Instict - Pinker |
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| January 24 |
The American Revolution and Land AcquisitionA Subsistence Agriculture Movement from Colonial to Pioneering Agriculture: The Emergence of a Distinctive American Culture; The Influence of the Civil War and Early Signs of a Commercial Agriculture
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapters 3 and 4, (37-77) |
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| January 29 |
Professor Jan Flora, The Structure of Agriculture and its Relationship to Labor Availability
Reading assignment--"Race, Class and Gender in Rural America
Powerpoint Presentation Download
PDF Download |
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| January 31 |
The Arrival of the 20th Century: A Changing Agricultural Economy
The Great Depression
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapter 6 (99-121) |
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| February 5 |
Responses to Economic Hardship and Rural Stagnation: The Drive to Mechanize
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapter 7 (122-149) and Chapter 10 (189-208) |
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| February 7 |
Responses to Economic Hardship and Rural Stagnation: Building a Modern Infrastructure to Support a Commercial Agriculture
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapter 11 (209-234) |
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| February 12 |
Responses to Economic Hardship and Rural Stagnation: Emphasis Upon Education and Human Capital Development
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapter 12 (235-257) |
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| February 14 |
Response to Economic Hardship; Increased Reliance upon Government
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapter 15 (307-334) |
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| February 19 |
EXAM #1 Results |
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| February 21 |
Global Forces that Influenced the Direction of US Agriculture:
Globalization is not New
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapter 13 (258-277) |
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| February 26 |
Mr. Arion Thiboumery Agricultural Industrialization: What is It? Why is it Important? Who Cares?
Reading Assignment: Urban, Agricultural Industrialization: Its Inevitable; Boehlje, The New Agriculture; Boehlje, Industrialization of Agriculture, What are the implications?
Agricultural Industrialization: It's Inevitable (PDF download)
Industrialization of Agriculture: What are the Implications? (PDF download) |
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| February 28 |
Professor J. Arbuckle, Competing Paradigms about the Future of Agriculture: The importance of paradigms in understanding agricultural change.
Presentation Download (PDF)
Reading Assignment:
Steven Yaffee, Three Faces of Ecosystem Management (PDF Download)
Curtiss Beus and Riley Dunlap, Conventional versus Alternative Agriculture: The Paradigmatic Roots of the Debate (PDF Download)
Douglas Jackson-Smith and Fred Buttel, Social and Ecological Dimensions of the Alternative-Conventional Agricultural Paradigm Scale (PDF download) |
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| March 4 |
Changes in the Structure of Agriculture
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| March 6 |
Professor Mike Duffy, Changing Land Ownership and the Changing Structure of Agriculture.
The Last Frontier: 1860-1897
The Role of Land Speculation and Ownership in Settling Rural America
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapter 5 (78-98) and Chapter 9 (173-188); Changes in Farming: So What is New?; Smith, Farming: Its Declining in the US; Duffy, Defining the farm |
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| March 11 |
Professor Pete Korsching, Innovation and Entrepreneurism Among Farmers
Reading Assignment: Macke, Don and Markley, Deborah. 2006. "Entrepreneurship and Rural America." Rural research Report Vol. 17, No. 4. (PDF download)
Levere, Andrea, Kim Pate, Emily Appel, Jennifer Malkin, Bill Schweke, and Brian Dabson. 2005. "Entrepreneurship as a Rural Economic Development Strategy." Rural research Report Vol. 16, No. 10. (PDF download) |
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| March 13 |
Professor Lois Wright Morton, Water Quality and the Environment, Why the Need for Conservation
Reading Assignment: Cochrane, Chapter 14 (278 -306) |
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| March 15-22 |
SPRING BREAK |
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| March 25 |
Restructuring Agriculture in a Global Economy: Is Sustainable Agriculture a Viable Option?
Reading Assignment:
Is Sustainable Agriculture an Elixir for Rural Communities, Lasley
Sustainable Growth In Agricultural Production: Into the 21st Century, Ruttan
Industrialization of Agriculture: What are the Implications?, Michael Boehlje
The New Agriculture, Michael Boehlje
Jaqueline Comito Powerpoint Lecture Download |
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| March 27 |
Some of the Unintended Consequences of Industrialization
Reading Assignment:
Heffernan, Globalization of the Food
Agriculture Industrialization: It's Inevitable, Thomas Urban |
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| April 1 |
EXAM #2 |
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| April 3 |
Understanding the Changing Nature of Livestock Production, The Swine Example
Reading Assignment: Lasley, Facts, Myths and Emotions; Competing visions about agriculture: a case study from the swine industry |
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| April 8 |
Mr. Dan Sunblad, Agricultural Change and Impacts Upon the Community |
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| April 10 |
Social Forces Impacting the Future of Farming
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| April 15 |
Emerging Issues that are Shaping the Food System
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| April 17 |
The Future: Things to Watch, What are the gate posts of the future?
Reading Assignment:
Industrialization in the Pork Industry, Chris Hurt |
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| April 22 |
Professor Steve Sapp, Innovation, Biotechnology and the Emerging Bioeconomy
Public Trust in the U.S. Food System (powerpoint)
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| April 24 |
Policy Debates and Ethical Issues in Future Farm Legislation
Reading assignment:
Importance of Being a Good Neighbor, Paul Lasley |
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| April 29 |
TBA |
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| May 2 |
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| May 5-9 |
FINAL WEEK
**Final Exam and Final Grades** |
