The programme stimulates innovative research and empowers graduates with capacity to implement development programmes and policies. The courses offered are also inter-linked with other disciplines, such as agronomy, animal management, food science, agriculture engineering, forestry, environment and social based studies.
Objectives of the Programme;
Equip graduate students with theoretical and practical aspects of soil science and management.
Produce graduate with proficiency in research and training as well as implement developmentprogrammes in the field of soil science and related disciplines.
enerate soils information to enable decision-makers and other scientists promote the agricultural and related sectors.
| Course Title | Course Code |
Credit Units |
Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Nutrition | SOS 7104 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Genetranscription and Control Mechanims | CRS 7120 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Weed Management Systems | CRS 7119 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Advanced MolecularBiology and Gentics | CRS 7118 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Biodiversity Conservation and Development | CRS 7117 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| PRINCIPLES OF POPULATION AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | CRS 7115 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| ADVANCED PLANT MICROBIOLOGY | CRS 7114 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Municiple and Farm OrganicWaste and Management | SOS 7105 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Soil Organic Matter | SOS 7103 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Soil Microbiology | SOS 7102 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Soil Fertility Management | SOS 7101 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Crop Physiology | CRS 7103 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Agronomy | CRS 7102 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Applied Statistics/Biometrics | CRS 7101 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Non Ruminant Nutrition | ANS 7101 | 3 | Undergraduate Level |
| Agricultural Extension | AGE 7102 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Course Title | Course Code |
Credit Units |
Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soil Survey and Land Evaluation | SOS 7205 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Soil Degradation and Conservation | SOS 7204 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Soil Chemical Processes | SOS 7202 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Advanced Soil Physics | SOS 7201 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Research Methods | AEC 7201 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Gender and Agricultural Development | AGE 7202 | 3 | Graduate Level |
| Production in Economics | AEC 7203 | 3 | Graduate Level |