Curriculum Guide: Doctor of Philosophy in Soil Science
| Course Number and Descriptive Title | Units | |
| Core Course 15 Units | ||
| Field of Specialization Courses (2 courses or 6 units minimum) | ||
| Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition | ||
| SOIL311 - Advances in the Mineral Nutrition of Plants | 3 | |
| SOIL317 - Soil-Plant Interrelationships | 3 | |
| Soil Ecology | ||
| SOIL313 - Applied Plant-Soil Microbe Interactions | 3 | |
| SOIL319 - Soil Ecology | 3 | |
| Soil Conservation and Management | ||
| SOIL214 - Advances in Soil and Water Conservation | 3 | |
| SOIL218 - Geospatial Methods in Soil and Water Resources Management | 3 | |
| Soil Chemistry | ||
| SOIL215 - Advanced Soil Chemistry | 3 | |
| SOIL315 - Soil Biogeochemistry | 3 | |
| Pedology | ||
| SOIL312 - Soils of the World | 3 | |
| SOIL318 - Advances in Pedology | 3 | |
| Soil Micobiology | ||
| SOIL213 - Advanced Soil Microbiology | 3 | |
| SOIL219 - Soil Organic Matter | 3 | |
| SOIL PHYSICS | ||
| SOIL216 - Advanced Soil Physics | 3 | |
| SOIL316 - Environmental Applications of Soil Physics | 3 | |
| Other Core Courses 15 Units | ||
| SOIL211 - Advanced Soil Fertility | 3 | |
| SOIL212 - Genesis, Morphology and Classificaiton of Soils | 3 | |
| SOIL213 - Advanced Soil Microbiology | 3 | |
| SOIL215 - Advanced Soil Chemistry | 3 | |
| SOIL216 - Advanced Soil Physics | 3 | |
| SOIL217 - Land Resource Evaluation | 3 | |
| SOIL219 - Soil Organic Matter | 3 | |
| SOIL220 - Methods in Soil Science Research | 3 | |
| SOIL316 - Environmental Applications of Soil Physics | 3 | |
| SOIL390 - Special Topics | 3 | |
| SOIL400- Doctoral Dissertation | 12 | |
| Minor/Cognate Courses –12 units (courses from 1 or 2 other fields of specialization) | ||
| SUMMARY | ||
| Core Course | 6 | |
| Major Course | 15 | |
| Minor/Cognate | 12 | |
| Graduate Seminar | 2 | |
| Dissertation | 12 | |
| Colloquium | 1 | |
| Total No. of Units Required | 48 | |
Note:
- Not more than 6 units of 100 level courses may be credited for the degree program
- Odd and even numbered courses are offered during the first and second semester of the school year, respectively.
- After the first term, graduate students are required to form their Graduate Advisory Committee (GAC) andPlan of Course Work ( PCW). Forms can be secured at the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School.