Teaching
Primary Classes Taught As Murray State University Faculty
AGR 328 - Statistics for Food & Agriculture (designer, instructor)
Course Overview:
A course in agribusiness economics partially satisfying Murray State University's agricultural core class requirements. Topics include research study design, data types, data visualization, calculating and interpreting descriptive & summary statistics, hypothesis testing & inferential statistics, correlation, probability, and basic regression analysis.
AGR 333 - Recordkeeping & Analysis for Agribusiness (designer, instructor)
Course Overview:
A course in agribusiness economics designed specifically for non-agribusiness undergraduate students. Topics include budgeting, financial statements, management & decisionmaking analysis, loan amortization, accounting, and spreadsheet software application.
AGR 337 - Agricultural Sales & Merchandising (co-designer, instructor)
Course Overview:
A course about principles of sales & marketing in the food & agriculture industry. Topics include prospecting, professional development, marketing, discovery, communication, behavioral analysis, and handling customer objections.
AGR 531 - Agricultural Finance (designer, instructor)
Course Overview:
A course in agribusiness economics covering fundamentals of managerial, corporate, and computational finance. Topics include financial statement organization & ratio analyses, risk, time value of money, investment analysis, and credit.
AGR 536 - Quantitative Methods for Agribusiness (designer, instructor)
Course Overview:
An advanced special topics course in econometrics. Topics include basics of statistics, basics of calculus, basics of computer programming, basics of matrix algebra, linear regression, OLS, identification problems, econometric inference, program evaluation, demand estimation & elasticities, and forecasting.
AGR 631 - Agricultural Finance (designer, instructor)
Course Overview:
Graduate (MS) version of AGR 531.
AGR 639 - Agribusiness Analytics (designer, instructor)
Course Overview:
Graduate (MS) version of AGR 536.
AGR 648 - Economics of Sustainable Agriculture & Food Production (designer, instructor)
Course Overview:
A graduate course in agribusiness economics concerning sustainability issues in the food & ag sector. Topics vary by year.
AGR 720 - Statistics & Experimental Design (instructor)
Course Overview:
A graduate course in the Murray State University ag graduate core covering elementary principles of data analysis in graduate student research. Topics include APA formatting, data collection, descriptive & summary statistics, hypothesis testing & inferential statistics, correlation, data visualization, and basic regression analysis.
AGR 737 - Agricultural Sales & Merchandising (designer, instructor)
Course Overview:
Graduate (MS) version of AGR 337.
Secondary Classes Taught As Murray State University Faculty
AGR 130 - Agricultural Economics (alternate instructor)
Course Overview:
A course in fundamental applied micro- and macroeconomics principles as applied to the food and agriculture industry.
AGR 330 - Principles of Agribusiness Management (guest lecturer)
Course Overview:
A course in agribusiness economics covering the fundamental tenets of management as applied to the food and agriculture sector.
AGR 735 - Research Methodology (guest lecturer)
Course Overview:
A graduate course teaching the fundamentals of the scientific method, literature review, research questions & hypotheses, and writing.
Visiting Lectures & Teaching Assistantships
AGR 1240 - Cannabis: History, Legal and Medicinal (Mineral Area College)
AGEC 204 - Introduction to Natural Resource Economics (Purdue University)
AGEC 340 - Microeconomics and Economic Policy (Purdue University)
AGEC 430 - Agribusiness Strategy (Purdue University)
AGEC 506 - Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis (Purdue University)
AGEC 650 - Time Series Econometrics (Purdue University)
AGEC 684 - Applied Quantitative Methods for Decision Making (Purdue University)
