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FOREST SOILS MS AND PHD CURRICULUM STRUCTURE

The following courses are a suggested pathway to complete the MS or PhD degree in Forest Soils. See
also, common course work structure (requirements) for MS and PhD degrees.

  COURSE TITLE
CREDITS
ORIENTATION
  CFR 500 Graduate Orientation Seminar
1
DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE
  ESRM 410 Forest Soils and Site Productivity
5
  ESRM 416 Field Survey of Wildland Soils
3
  CFR 507
Soils and Land Use
3
  CFR 511 Advanced Forest Soil Microbiology
5
  CFR 512 Biogeochemical Cycling in Soils and Forest Ecosystems
3
  CFR 513 Advanced Soil Genesis and Classification
5
  CFR 514 Soil and Plant Analysis
4
RESEARCH DESIGN/ QUANTITATIVE METHODS
  QSCI 482 Statistical Inference in Applied Research
5
  QSCI 483 Statistical Inference in Applied Research
5
  QERM 521

Scientific Methods in Research Management

4
SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCE
  CFR 509 Natural Resource Issues
3
  ESRM 473 Principles of Ecological Restoration
5
  CFR 501 Forest Ecosystem Ecology
5
  CEE 485 Environmental Engineering Chemistry*
3
  OCEAN 521

Aquatic Chemistry*

3
CURRENT TOPICS
  CFR 521 Current Topics in CFR
2
  CFR 512 Biogeochemical Cycling in Soils and Forest Ecosystems
3
RESEARCH
  CFR 700 Master's Thesis
9
  CFR 800 Doctoral Dissertation
27

*PhD level course