Graduate Program in Seed Technology and Business

Contact

Paul Christensen
515-294-8745
seedgrad@iastate.edu

Seed Business Management Graduate Certificate Program

The objective of this Seed Business Management Graduate Certificate is to provide students with core graduate level management and leadership skills that will enable them to better serve seed and agricultural biotechnology businesses and regulatory agencies, their customers and their stakeholders, in an increasingly complex environment. In addition to mastery of the business analytical procedures, the students will learn how seed value is created and delivered in market economies, and how government regulation impacts the delivery of value to customers, the appropriate scope of effective regulation, and various ethical approaches to regulation. The introductory course will introduce certain economic and ethical topics that are useful in the understanding of seed and biotechnology regulation and policy. Regulatory issues will be considered in depth in the capstone course on Seed Trade, Policies and Regulation.

General Description of the Seed Business Management Graduate Certificate

The Seed Business Management Certificate content will be approximately half of the content of the Graduate Program in Seed Technology and Business. That program’s curriculum satisfies the formal requirements for a Master of Science degree established by ISU’s Graduate College and applies academic rigor to instruction, in an integrated program.

The content of this course is such that can be step on the path to a master’s degree, although students may not have that objective.

The content of the course on Seed Trade, Policies, and Regulation will be unique to this program. This material will provide the basis for strategic thought about the seed industry from either the viewpoint of a participant or a regulator.

Seed Science and Technology Graduate Certificate Courses

The courses in the certificate program are offered by the same professors that teach the courses in the Seed Technology and Business Master of Science courses. In many cases the students will be in the same sections.