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Applied Science

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Description of Program

The Master of Applied Science is a practitioner degree for individuals directly involved in agriculture and natural resource related industries. It also addresses the advanced educational needs of working agricultural and natural resource professionals and science educators. The program is available to both residential and distance students.

The program offers several areas of study: agricultural leadership, agribusiness, animal systems, community development, food systems, integrative agricultural systems, and plant systems. While some areas of study are supported by distance-delivered courses to the extent that a student may complete a degree without ever being on campus, others are completed in the more traditional residential student setting.

Since this is a college-wide degree program, there is wide latitude in the selection of areas of study. An individual curriculum is designed for each student with the goal of best fitting the student's educational objective(s). The student, advisor, and supervisory committee jointly establish this curriculum.

The degree is designed for those whose educational objective is to pursue a professional degree in agriculture and natural resources at the master's level. A unique feature of the master's program is the degree project. The degree project replaces the traditional master's thesis and is specifically intended to be of immediate value in the student's workplace for career advancement.



  

Graduate Bulletin

The Graduate Bulletin provides course descriptions, program requirements, and more:

Faculty and Research

P. Stephen Baenziger Winter Grains; Germplasm; Biotechnology; Plant Breeding Theory and Applications
Lloyd Bell Curriculum Development; Minority Education Issues
Dennis Brink Mineral Requirements; Immunocompetence of Ruminants Fed Forages
Stephen Danielson Insect Ecology; Insect Pests of Field Crops
Marion Ellis Apiculture
John Foster Insect Resistant Plants; Maize; Insect Genetics
Roch Gaussoin Turfgrass Maintenance
Milford Hanna Value-Added Process Engineering; Physical Properties of Food
Tiffany Heng-Moss Insect Resistant Plants; Functional Genomics; Turfgrass Insect Pest Management
Leon Higley Physiological Responses of Plants to Insect Injury; Tiger Beetles; Pest Management; Forensic Entomology
Garald Horst Turfgrass; Plant Physiological and Morphological Response to Abiotic and Biotic Influence
David Jackson Functional and Structural Relationships in Starch; Corn Processing Technologies; Tortilla and Chip Process Chemistry
Steven Jones RNA Translation; Meat Quality
James King Distance Education; Multimedia and Instructional Systems; International Agriculture
Stevan Knezevic Weed Control and Ecology; Herbicide Technology
Don Lee Molecular Genetic Variation in Plants
Martha Mamo Waste Management; Soil; Chemistry; Biochemistry
John Markwell Photosynthetic Efficiency; Higher Plant Photosynthetic Pigments; Soybean Proteins as Allergens
Steve Mason Dryland Crops; Crop Rotation; International Agronomy
Deana Namuth Covert Distance Education; Plant Breeding and Genetics
Ellen Paparozzi Leaf Yellowing and Re-Greening; Plant Anatomy and Nutrition
Gerald Parsons Communication; Leadership; Environmental and Agricultural Ethics
Jim Partridge Physiological Basis of Diseases
Blair Siegfried Insecticide Resistance
Daniel Walters Soil; Crop Systems; Nutrients; Denitrification
Randy Wehling Food Quality Measurements; End-Use Characteristics of Grains; Cereal Grains
Curtis Weller Food and Bioproducts Engineering; Value-Added Processing; Biopolymeric Films
Gary Yuen Soilborne Disease; Biological Control
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