Crop and Soil Sciences (CSSP)

Freshman
FallHoursSpringHours
CSES 2000 Basic Crop Science14Core Social Science2,33
ENGL 1100 English Composition I3Core History3
BIOL 1020 Principles Of Biology3CHEM 1111 General Chemistry I Lab or 1031 Fund Of Chemistry I Lab1
BIOL 1021 Principles Of Biology Lab1CHEM 1110 Gen Chem For Scientists I or 1030 Fundamentals Chemistry I3
MATH 1120 Precalculus Algebra or 1130 Precalculus Trigonometry3ENGL 1120 English Composition II3
 14 13
Sophomore
FallHoursSpringHours
CSES 2040 Basic Soil Science4CHEM 1120 Gen Chem for Scientists II or 1040 Fundamental Chemistry II3
STAT 2510 Stats For Bio And Health Sci3CHEM 1121 General Chemistry II Lab or 1041 Fund Of Chemistry II Lab1
BIOL 1030 Organismal Biology3BIOL 3100 Plant Biology4
BIOL 1031 Organismal Biology Laboratory1Core Literature3
Core Fine Arts3Directed elective44
 14 15
Junior
FallHoursSpringHoursSummerHours
CSES 5000 Environmental Quality3CSES 5060 Soil Micro3CSES Experiential Learning93
BIOL 3200 General Microbiology3CSES 5061 Soil Microbiology Lab1 
BIOL 3201 General Micro Lab1CSES 5020 Soil Fertility3 
COMM 1000 Public Speaking (Core Literature II or humanities )3Directed Elective44 
Core History II or Social Science33Core Social Science33 
Core Literature II or Humanities53  
 16 14 3
Senior
FallHoursSpringHours
Precision Ag64CSES 4950 Senior Seminar2
Soil and Water73-4UNIV 4AA0 Achieve the Creed0
Directed Elective48Directed Elective410
 Plant Protection84
 15-16 16
Total Hours: 120-121
1

Courses in bold are major courses and require a 2.0 minimum GPA for graduation.

2

Please see advisor. Student choice on whether to do Literature or History sequence. University requires 12 hours of both Social Science and Humanities core.

3

Suggested Core Social Science

AGEC 1000 Global Issues

SUST 2000 Introduction to Sustainability

COUN 2000 Living & Comm in Div Society

ECON 2020 Prin Of Microeconomics

4

Directed Electives: (25-27 hr)

Please see advisor for specific course electives in the area of interests: 

  1. Plant Breeding and Genetics
  2. Precision Agriculture
  3. Crop Management, Consulting or Extension
  4. Plant or Soil Science Research
  5. Soil Conservation
  6. Soil Remediation
5

Suggested Core Humanities

PHIL 1010 Introduction To Logic

PHIL 1020 Introduction To Ethics

PHIL 1110 Ethics and Science

PHIL 1120 Intro. Environmental Ethics

6

Precision Agriculture: Choose one course (3-4 hr)

GEOS 5830 Geographic Information Systems

BSEN 5220 Geospatial Tech in Biosystems

GEOS 5810 Quant Meth & Spatial Analysis

7

Soil and/or Water: (3-4hr) 

CSES 5080 Soil Erosion & Conservation

CSES 5250 Aquatic Sediments

CSES 5800 Climate, Water, and Life

FISH 5220 Water Science

FISH 5320 Limnology

8

Plant Protection: Choose one course (3-4 hrs)

CSES 3120 Principles of Weed Science

PLPA 3000 General Plant Pathology

ENTM 4020 Economic Entomology

ENTM 5330 Integrated Pest Management

ENTM 3040 General Entomology

ENTM 5360 Landscape Entomology

9

Learning experiences such as Internship, Undergraduate Research, Judging, etc. See advisor for current list of opportunities.