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B.S. Degree in Environmental and Soil Sciences
| Offered through the College of Agricultural Sciences
and Natural Resources, this four-year curriculum includes three study options:
Summary
Environmental Science is a blended program of science and technology that provides a strong, broad background in the natural sciences. The plan of study emphasizes human impacts on the long-term use and productivity of land and water resources. Emphasis is also placed on the tools used in the management of these resources. The curriculum provides a good foundation in the collection and analysis of the information required to characterize resource conservation problems and to make good resource use decisions.
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Employment
Graduates gain the practical knowledge necessary to compete for career opportunities in government agencies, environmental consulting firms, public health services, environmental research laboratories, and agricultural production, while also gaining the theoretical training necessary for continuing on for advanced degrees in a variety of environmentally-related fields.
Summary
While sharing much of the core Environmental Science coursework, this concentration focuses more intensely on the formation, biology, chemistry, and physics of soils.
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Showcase curriculum: 08-09
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Employment
Typical employers are government agencies (Natural Resource Conservation Service, Tennessee Department of Environment), and environmental or agricultural consulting firms.
Summary
Agricultural Systems Technology is designed to provide you the skills required to manage the sophisticated technological systems that are increasingly essential to modern agricultural production. The program starts with a basic science foundation, adds courses in crop production, pest control, and protection of soil and water resources, then introduces the technologies and control systems available to make production more efficent and environmentally sound. It rounds out the curriculum with analysis and management courses to tie all the information together and to most effectively use it in making and carrying out management decisions. Directed technical electives allow the student to concentrate in a particular area of agricultural production or to develop increased skills with particular technologies or management tools.
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Showcase curriculum: 08-09
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Employment
Graduates from this program will have the skills and understanding to be successful in agribusiness, agricultural consulting and production, or employment with agricultural equipment and material suppliers.
Each of these tracks has provisions for elective courses to be taken in
the specified subject areas. Students consult with their advisors
each semester about their interests and the appropriate classes to meet
the students' needs.
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