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Agriculture
Washington's agricultural industries provide employment and career opportunities at many levels. These industries are increasingly sophisticated, requiring employees with specific technical skills as well as a broad understanding of specific industries and communities in which they work. Trained agriculturists with the skills to continue lifelong learning will be ideally positioned to benefit from these evolving agricultural industries.
The WVC Agriculture programs are designed to address the general, entry-level training and educational needs of the area's agricultural industries. The programs recognize the need for a broad-based, general agricultural background in many of the area's agricultural-based jobs. Students who earn the associate of technical sciences (ATS) degree will find themselves well-qualified for numerous entry-level positions in agriculture and agriculture-support industries or well prepared for transfer to the College of Agriculture at Washington State University. All WSU general education requirements are satisfied and the degree transfers directly.
Students can choose one of two tracks:
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The transfer-degree track prepares students for entry-level positions right after graduation and gives them the additional opportunity to transfer their degree to a four-year institution to continue their education.
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Nontransfer-degree students will find their educational experiences enhanced with numerous agricultural classes designed to broaden their knowledge of agricultural activity and better position them for advancement in their chosen jobs.The nontransfer-degree will not transfer to a four-year institution, though some individual courses will.
Wenatchee Valley College has the most intensive undergraduate pomology (tree fruit production) program in the United States. Students spend about half of their time in the classroom and half in the field. The college has 68 acres of teaching and demonstration orchards, managed in part by tree fruit production students. In addition, students learn from local industry professionals: horticulturists, researchers, pest management consultants, warehouse managers, fruit marketers and others in a complete and well-rounded program that covers every aspect of deciduous fruit crop cultivation, financial management, and post-harvest handling and storage.
See Also:
WSU College of Agriculture and Home Economics
Washington Apple Education Foundation
Please feel free to contact the WVC Agriculture department at 509.682.6610.
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