1.
Application for Admission to the Graduate College (Plant and Soil
Sciences2. Application for an Assistantship in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
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1. Research will be set up whereby this is conducted in the students host country or where they reside. We are committed to delivering a quality M.S. degree program whereby they become proficient in the use and application of the scientific and experimental methods. We would require an in-country research project, and this program would adhere to the same rigor we currently employ with our MS students, and where “Science” is taken seriously.
4. While this would be unique to each student project, we would budget laboratory analysis expenses that would be incurred “in country.”
5. Ph.d and MS degree students in this program would likely have to travel to the US, on 2 occasions. For PH.D students they would need to be present for both oral exams and the final defense. MS students would need to be present for the final defense.
6. We will establish core curriculum for an MS degree in soil science that includes the following. For all courses, we would be required to obtain permission from each faculty member teaching the class, and we would work with ITLE to secure all the needed equipment. Professors involved in each of these classes, wouldn’t have to do anything special.
7. We would administer all examinations in the same way that they take place in the classroom, but where we would send them a document electronically and they would have a certain time period to complete it.
8. Funding
for their in-country or in-state research would have to be worked out on
a case by case basis.
CORE CLASSES
9. STAT
5013 (3 hours) Statistics for Experimenters I
STAT 5023 (3 hours) Statistics for Experimenters II
HORT 5233 (3 hours) Experimental Horticulture
SOIL 4234 (4 hours) Soil Nutrient Management
SOIL 5813 (3 hours) Soil Plant Nutrient Cycling and Environmental
Quality
SOIL 4213 (3 hours) Precision Agriculture
SOIL 5111 (1
hour) Research Methods
SOIL 5000 (6 hours) Master Thesis
SOIL 5110 (3
hours) GIS for Comprehensive Landscape Analysis
PLNT 4353 (3 hours) Plant Breeding
SOIL 5101 (1 hour) Problems and Special Study
Optional
SOIL 5353 (3
hours) Advanced Soil Genesis
CIVE 5813 (3 hours) Environmental Lab Analysis
BOT 5423 (3 hours) Plant Mineral Nutrition
Total Required Hours = 30
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