Minor in Soil Science (Non-Teaching)
Program Learning Outcomes
- Minor outcomes are embedded in the program outcomes for Soil and Water Option. Expected competencies for LRES majors include a diverse set of discipline-specific and interdisciplinary knowledge, skills, and abilities;
- Oral and written communication and presentation skills;
- Problem solving skills, including critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, analytical synthesis, and decision making;
- Information gathering skills including finding appropriate information sources (e.g., soil maps, vegetation surveys, research articles, etc.), and being able to read and summarize research papers;
- Data management and quantitative skills such as working with spreadsheets, calculating basic statistics, organizing data layers, and applying data to equations.
| ENSC 245IN | Soils | 3 |
| ENSC 353 | Environmental Biogeochemistry | 3 |
| BIOM 452 | Soil & Envirnmntl Microbiology | 3 |
| ENSC 454 | Landscape Pedology | 3 |
| ENSC 460 | Soil Remediation | 3 |
| Choose two from the following: | 6 | |
| Watershed Hydrology | ||
| Restoration Ecology | ||
| Ecosystem Biogeochem and Global Change | ||
| Total Credits | 21 | |