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Cannabis

SUNY Adirondack offers microcredentials in Cannabis Business and Entrepreneurship, and Cannabis & Hemp Cultivation.
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Microcredentials

Cannabis Business and Entrepreneurship

 

This microcredential creates career and business management pathways that can support small-business owners or future business owners in the emerging cannabis industry, incorporating best practices into existing and new courses that prepare students for careers in the new cannabis industry and related ancillary industries.

 

Required courses are:

  • BUS 122 The Business of Cannabis and Hemp
  • BUS 123 Marketing New York’s Agricultural Products
  • BUS 165 Principles of Entrepreneurship
  • ECO 121 Cannabis: A Journey Through History, Society and Policy

 

This microcredential:

  • Comprises 12 credits;
  • Is able to be completed in two semesters;
  • Costs $222 per credit, plus textbooks and college fees

 

These credits are stackable to a degree:

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Cannabis & Hemp Cultivation

 

This microcredential will prepare students for employment in the cannabis and hemp industry with hands-on training in growing and harvesting hemp, as well as courses dedicated to cannabis policy, regulations and marketing. With an emphasis on sustainable horticulture practices and the latest scientific research, this program will provide students with the basics of growing, harvesting and light processing of hemp.

 

Required courses are:

  • AGR 124 Cannabis & Hemp: Introduction to Sustainable Cultivation
  • AGR 125 Cannabis & Hemp: Harvesting & Introduction to Processing
  • BUS 123 Marketing New York’s Agricultural Products
  • ECO 121 Cannabis: A Journey Through History, Society and Policy

 

This microcredential:

  • Comprises 12 credits;
  • Is able to be completed in two semesters;
  • Costs $222 per credit, plus textbooks and college fees

 

These credits are stackable to a degree:

Register today