In order to qualify for the advanced (M) teaching license in North Carolina, one must complete 12 hours of course work that can be classified as subject matter or technical courses. The Department of Agricultural and Extension Education defines subject mattter courses to be those containing substantial content that could be taught to high school agricultural students. Therefore nearly any course taught in the traditional fields of agriculture such as Animal Science, Crop Science, Horticulture, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Entomology, Forestry, etc. fit this definition. There are some courses that are taught within the Department that also contain content that could be taught to high school agricultural students. The AEE courses that qualify as subject matter courses include:

• AEE 503 Youth Organization Management
• AEE 522 Experiential Learning in Agriculture
• AEE 595 Teaching Biotechnology
• AEE 530 Priority Management
• AEE 507 Comparative Agricultural and Extension Education
• AEE 560 Organizational and Administrative Leadership
• AEE 595V Marketing