Seminar Schedule - Class Assignments - Instructors
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Overview:
Winter
Term 2010 - Soil Quality: Current State of Knowledge
CSS 199 / HORT 199 / AREC 199
CSS CRN 31906/HORT CRN 37242/AREC CRN 38188
Winter Term 2010
Wednesdays, 4:00-4:50 pm, Kidder
278
The overriding theme of most issues in agriculture today is sustainability in
all it's various facets - environment, economics and social impacts. The
OSU Departments of Crop and Soil Science, Horticulture, and Agricultural and
Resource Economics present a undergraduate seminar series entitled Farming
Today for Tomorrow that will deal with a specific theme of agricultural
sustainability.
The theme of the series during winter quarter 2010 is "Soil Quality:
Current State of Knowledge". It will provide class participants with
an overview of why soil quality is important in our natural resource systems
and what is being done to both understand and improve soil quality.
Speakers include OSU and other university scientists, federal agency staff and
growers who are dealing with these issues "on the ground."
The seminar is open to the public and all are welcome to attend. Seminars will
be held on Wednesday afternoons at 4 p.m. in Kidder Hall, Room 278, OSU campus.
The seminars are videotaped and will be rebroadcast on the local cable services
access channel 27 in the Corvallis area at 8 pm on the evening of the seminar.
This is the OSU education channel.
The seminar is offered for credit as Crop and Soil Science 199 / Horticulture
199 / Agricultural and Resource Economics 199 (one credit, pass/no credit).
Those enrolled for credit must:
1) Attend at least 8 of the 10 seminars. A student will not pass and will not
get credit if they miss more than 2 seminars, unless they have explicit
approval from the Dr. Olszyk
2) Obtain at least 70 out of 100 points distributed as follows: up to 10 points
for attendance (1 point per seminar attended), 50 points for quizzes (1
point each of 5 questions for each of 10 seminars), and 40 points for short
essays for review of papers related to subject matter in the class (3 essays
due the 3rd, 6th and 9th weeks of class). For more details see the link
to "class assignments".
