Digital Agriculture (Minor)
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Program Description
Declaring a minor in Digital Agriculture (DA) will provide you with new opportunities to study and do research in DA, gain new perspectives on the future of agriculture, network across the university, and engage with the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA).
Academic Standards
Grade Requirements
All courses must be taken for a letter grade. Grades of S/U or SX/UX will not be accepted.
Each course must be completed with a grade of C or better to count toward the minor.
Minor Declaration Information
Please consult with the Animal Science Undergraduate Program Coordinator if you are interested or have questions.
Program Information
- Minimum Credits for Minor: 16
Minor Requirements
No more than two courses taken for your major may count toward the DA minor to meet the requirements. For Elective Courses, both must be outside the student's major. Students may not "double count" any course to meet the requirements of the DA minor with other minors (i.e., cannot use the same course to fulfill two different minor requirements).
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| ALS 1110 | Introduction to Digital Agriculture | 2 |
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Data Science/Computer Science | ||
| Select one of the following: | ||
| CS 1110 | Introduction to Computing: A Design and Development Perspective | 4 |
| CS 1380 | Data Science for All | 4 |
| INFO 2950 | Introduction to Data Science | 4 |
| An advanced programming or data science technical course as approved by minor advisor (3-4 cr) | ||
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Ethical Issues that Inform Digital Agriculture | ||
| Select one of the following: | ||
| ENGRG 3600 | Ethical Issues in Engineering Practice | 3 |
| GDEV 3400 | Agriculture, Food, Sustainability and Social Justice | 3 |
| INFO 1200 | Information Ethics, Law, and Policy | 3 |
| INFO 4145 | Privacy and Security in the Data Economy | 3 |
| Other courses as approved by the minor advisor. | ||
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Ag Production Systems 1 | ||
| Select one of the following: | ||
| ANSC 2000 | Sustainable Food and Companion Animal Systems and Perspectives | 3 |
| ANSC 2500 | Dairy Cattle Principles | 3 |
| ANSC 3510 | Dairy Herd Management | 4 |
| ENTOM 2030 | Honey Bees: Their Intriguing Biology and Interactions with Humans and More | 3 |
| PLSCI 3025 | Hydroponic Food Crop Production and Management | 4 |
| PLSCI 3030 | FoodCycle: Systems Thinking Toward Circular Economy for Organic Resources | 3 |
| PLSCI 3350 | Sustainable Orchard Management | 2-3 |
| PLSCI 4140 | Global Cropping Systems and Sustainable Development | 3 |
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Elective Courses 2 | ||
| Select two of the following: | ||
| PLSCI 4175 | Production and Management of Greenhouse Crops | 4 |
| PLSCI 2110 | Field Crop Systems | 4 |
| PLSCI 4290 | Remote Sensing and Modeling for Ecosystems | 3 |
| PLSCI 2200 | Introduction to Mapping and Spatial Analysis with GIS | 3 |
| PLSCI 4200 | Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Concepts and Application | 3 |
| PLSCI 4720 | Nutrient and Carbon Cycling and Management in Ecosystems | 3 |
| PLSCI 4100 | Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses and Global Climate Change | 3 |
| PLSCI 6200 | Analysis of Spatial Data: A Case-Based Approach | 3 |
| PLSCI 4660 | Soil Ecology | 3-4 |
| PLSCI 3210 | Soil and Crop Management for Sustainability | 3 |
| PLSCI 3650 | Environmental Chemistry: Soil, Air, and Water | 3 |
| PLSCI 3350 | Sustainable Orchard Management | 2-3 |
| PLSCI 3025 | Hydroponic Food Crop Production and Management | 4 |
| PLSCI 3420 | Plant Physiology, Lectures | 3 |
| PLSCI 3430 | Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering of Plants | 2 |
| PLSCI 4000 | Concepts and Techniques in Computational Biology | 4 |
| ANSC 3510 | Dairy Herd Management | 4 |
| ANSC 4120 | Whole-Farm Nutrient Management | 4 |
| ANSC 4310 | Animal Genomics and Epigenomics | 3 |
| ANSC 3300 | Fish Physiology | 3 |
| BEE 2510 | Engineering Processes for Environmental Sustainability | 3 |
| BEE 3299 | Sustainable Development | 3 |
| BEE 4530 | Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biological Processes | 3 |
| BEE 3900 | Bio-Robotics | 3 |
| BEE 4550 | Biologically Inspired Microsystems Engineering | 2 |
| CRP 4080 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | 4 |
| FDSC 2000 | Introduction to Physiochemical and Biological Aspects of Foods | 3 |
| FDSC 4210 | Food Engineering Principles | 4 |
| FDSC 4250 | Food Processing: Conventional and Emerging Technologies | 2 |
| INFO 2921 | Inventing an Information Society | 3 |
| INFO 3950 | Advanced Data Analytics | 3 |
| INFO 4310 | Interactive Information Visualization | 3 |
| INFO 4320 | Introduction to Rapid Prototyping and Physical Computing | 4 |
| ECE 2720 | Data Science for Engineers | 4 |
| ORIE 3120 | Practical Tools for Operations Research, Machine Learning and Data Science | 4 |
| ORIE 4580 | Simulation Modeling and Analysis | 4 |
| ORIE 4820 | Data-Driven Decision Modeling and Analysis | 3 |
| ENGRI 1200 | Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanoengineering | 3 |
| ENGRI 1310 | Introduction to Biomedical Engineering | 3 |
| ENGRI 1130 | Sustainable Engineering of Energy, Water, Soil, and Air Resources | 3 |
| ECE 2300 | Digital Logic and Computer Organization | 4 |
| ECE 4250 | Digital Signal Processing and Statistical Inference | 4 |
| ECE 4760 | Digital Systems Design Using Microcontrollers | 4 |
| ECE 5470 | Computer Vision | 3 |
| ECE 3140 | Embedded Systems | 4 |
| MAE 4180 | Autonomous Mobile Robots | 3 |
| CS 4750 | Foundations of Robotics | 4 |
| BME 4390 | Circuits, Signals and Sensors: Instrumentation Laboratory | 3 |
| EAS 3030 | Introduction to Biogeochemistry | 4 |
| ANSC 4880 | Global Food, Energy, and Water Nexus – Engage the US, China, and India for Sustainable Future | 3-4 |
| AEM 6455 | Toward a Sustainable Global Food System: Food Policy for Developing Countries | 3 |
| INFO 4200 | Information Policy: Applied Research and Analysis | 3 |
| INFO 4240 | Designing Technology for Social Impact | 4 |
| FDSC 3960 | Food Safety Assurance | 2 |
- 1
Courses on this list or as approved by the minor advisor. Course must have either a prerequisite course at 2000 or greater level or more than two prerequisite courses.
- 2
The list includes courses that may be used to fulfill the elective course requirement for the DA minor. The selected courses must be outside of the students major.