This course fulfills the First Year Seminar (FYS) requirement of the 2015 University Studies Program. As a member of this course, you will learn and practice the important skill of critically examining and evaluating evidence, claims, beliefs, or points of view about relevant and meaningful agriculture and natural resources issues. You will engage in active learning, systematic inquiry of pressing issues, and processing of individual and collaborative ideas. You will emerge with a "first-rate intelligence" -the ability to consider multiple opposing ideas (which you are often bombarded with thanks to social media) without losing the ability to think rationally, keep an open mind, consider all viewpoints, and develop and informed opinion.