About Program
Program of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition consists of two subdivisions, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. Main courses given in the section of soil science include soil formation and characterization, soil survey and mapping, soil conservation, soil physics, chemistry and biology, soil-plant-water relationships, soil problems (salinity alkalinity, soil and water erosion, degradation, soil pollution etc.) and soil reclamation and remediation, in the level of doctoral education. In the department of Plant Nutrition, student are informed and experienced about plant nutrition and fertilization, plant physiology, soil and plant fertility and experimental designing in the level of doctoral education.
Goals
Within the frame of the doctoral program the aim of the department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, is not only to cultivate well-equipped agronomists having a divers expertise through the issues of soil identification, classification, sustainable soil use, soil reclamation and remediation, monitoring soil-water-plant relationships, understanding relationships between plant nutrients in soil and accurate fertilization applications, but also to train agronomists as qualified researchers being able to creat and carry research projects in relation to soil science.
Summary of Program Outcomes
The alumni has a information and experience background required in the areas of expertise such as determination of soil characteristics in the field and laboratory conditions, soil classification, understanding soil and plant nutritional problems and has a vision for sustainable management of natural resources. The alumni can evaluate soil and plant nutritional problems; capable to build up research projects individually or cooperatively with the experts from different disciplines of agricultural and environmental sciences solutions in public and scientific platforms; and communicative enough to share his/her projects and thoughts in national/international public and scientific platforms