SWSMINU - Soil and Water Science

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Program Type

Undergraduate Minor

College

College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences

Career

Undergraduate

Program Description

Build the skills and knowledge you need to solve problems surrounding soil health and water quality.

Learning Outcomes

- Have an integrated working knowledge of core scientific disciplines and their application to soil science and to water science.
- Characterize environmental systems and apply scientific and mathematical concepts to field and laboratory data to critically evaluate increasingly complex environmental issues at local, regional and global scales.
- Design strategies related to soil and water science.
- Apply the scientific method by forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment using basic environmental quality measurements, site assessments, and statistics to test the hypothesis, and analyzing and interpreting results.