ECTS
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Course details
Course code: BBS10135f11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: Soil Science
Major: Biology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Elżbieta Jamroz
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Lectures, laboratory and practical excersises allow students get the knowledge of soil as the main component of environment and the basis of plant production. After finishing the course student are able to make the basis laboratory analysis and perform the soil classification maps.
Competences: Student after finishing the course can work in environmental protection offices, in agricultural chemistry laboratories and classification and cartography offices.
Prerequisites: physics, biophysics, geology
Course content: Students get the knowledge on genesis, structure and properties of soils, their environmental and utilitarian classification. The course contain also problems of soils fertility and their protection, elements of soil cartography, including world soil resources.
Recommended literature: Zawadzki S. – red. „Gleboznawstwo” PWRiL Warszawa 1999 i kolejne wydania. Drozd J., Licznar M., Licznar S.E., Weber J., „Gleboznawstwo z elementami mineralogii i petrografii” wyd. AR Wrocław Buckman H.C., Brady N.C., „The nature and properties of soils” 12th edition 2001.
Assessment methods: Completion of laboratory training, exam ; minimum 60% of knowledge to pass.
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