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Courses

The University Catalog lists all courses that pertain to the West Lafayette campus. In order to view courses that are available at a given time, and the details of such courses, please visit the myPurdue Schedule of Classes.

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Agricultural Systems Management
  

  • ASM 39000 - Agricultural Systems Management Co-Op

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised professional experiences in agricultural systems management. Programs must be preplanned and conducted under the direction of the departmental coordinator with the cooperation of an employer. Students must submit a summary report. Consent of the departmental cooperative professional program coordinator required. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • ASM 40000 - Agricultural Systems Management Study Abroad

    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 8.00. Utilized to record credits earned through participation in Purdue study abroad programs with cooperating foreign universities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • ASM 42000 - Electric Power And Controls

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals and application of electric power for agricultural facilities; safe wiring principles; operation and performance characteristics of electric motors; applications of control systems that include monitors, sensors, relays, and programmable logic controllers. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • ASM 42100 - Senior Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Professional attitudes and ethics, resume preparation and interview procedures, business correspondence, meetings, and career planning. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • ASM 44100 - Methods Of Teaching Agricultural Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Emphasis on facilities, shop layout, organization, course planning, and demonstrations. Course meets during weeks 1-6. For students seeking certification as teachers of agriculture. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • ASM 49000 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Assignment by consent of instructor in the field of selected study. Laboratory, field, and library studies and reports on special problems related to agricultural systems management not covered in regular coursework. A written report and oral presentation of final results is required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • ASM 49100 - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Designed for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, but have enough student interest to justify formalized teaching of an undergraduate-level course. The course may be repeated by a student as long as the topic being taught is not repeated. The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student’s record. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • ASM 49400 - Project Planning And Management

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Discussion of topics relevant to project planning and execution in industry, including technical communication, budgeting, team management, intellectual property, and timelines. Student teams will develop project proposal to address contemporary issues in agricultural systems management. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • ASM 49500 - Agricultural Systems Management Capstone Project

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Planning, organization, and analysis of individual or team projects related to contemporary issues in agricultural systems management. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • ASM 49800 - Directed Experience In Teaching Mechanized Agriculture

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. This course is designed primarily for students majoring in agricultural education, extension education, agricultural systems management, and agricultural engineering. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • ASM 49900 - Thesis Research

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Thesis Research. Admission to honors program. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • ASM 51000 - Agrosecurity-Emergency Management For Agricultural Production Operations

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Prepares individuals for management and loss control positions in agricultural production, agribusiness operations, and emergency management agencies. Addresses prevention, preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery from disasters such as fires, explosions, entrapments, tornadoes, floods, winter storms, earthquakes, vandalism, chemical releases, and bio-terrorism. Students complete a community service learning activity, in which they assist a farm or agribusiness manager in developing formal emergency preparedness plans. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • ASM 53000 - Power And Machinery Management

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Management and selection of farm machines and power units with emphasis on cost analysis and evaluation of new machines and practices. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • ASM 54000 - Geographic Information System Application

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals of GIS analysis applied to environmental, agricultural, and engineering-related problems. Topics include data sources, spatial analysis; projections; creating data and metadata, and conceptualizing and solving spatial problems using GIS. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • ASM 55000 - Grain Drying And Storage

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Crop drying and storage principles including equilibrium moisture, psychrometrics, and drying rates. Modern drying and conditioning techniques including dryeration, in-bin counterflow drying, and combination drying. Estimating fixed and variable drying costs, aeration of stored grain, and maintenance of grain quality. Offered in even-numbered years. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • ASM 59000 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Assignment by consent of the instructor in the field of selected study. Laboratory, field, and library studies and reports on special problems related to agricultural systems management not covered in regular coursework. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • ASM 59100 - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Primarily designed for specialized topic areas in agricultural systems management for which there is no specific course, workshop, or individual study plan, but having enough student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • ASM 69800 - Research MS Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • ASM 69900 - ASM Research PhD Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of Instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

Agriculture
  

  • AGR 10100 - Introduction To The College Of Agriculture And Purdue University

    Credit Hours: 0.50. Students are introduced to the College of Agriculture and Purdue University. Specific areas discussed include the diversity of career opportunities within agriculture, the relationships between different areas of agriculture, ethics, the impact of undergraduate coursework, including the core curriculum, on scholarship and career preparation, and the challenges facing the food, agricultural, and natural resource system. The use of guest lecturers provides a networking opportunity for students. Enrollment in this course is restricted to beginning freshmen students. Course meets weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 11100 - Introduction To Agricultural And Biological Engineering Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering which include Agricultural Systems Management, Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering, and Biological and Food Process Engineering. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 11200 - Introduction To Agricultural Economics Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 11300 - Introduction To Agronomy Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Agronomy, which includes Applied Meteorology, Agronomic Business and Marketing, Environmental Soil Science, International Agronomy, Plant Genetics and Plant Breeding, Soil and Crop Management, Soil and Crop Science, Turf Science, and associate degrees. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 11400 - Introduction to Animal Sciences Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Animal Sciences. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 11500 - Introduction To Biochemistry Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Biochemistry. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 11600 - Introduction To Botany And Plant Pathology Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 11700 - Introduction To Entomology Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Entomology. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 11800 - Introduction To Food Science Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Food Science. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 11900 - Introduction To Forestry And Natural Resources Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 12000 - Introduction To Horticulture And Landscape Architecture Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 12100 - Introduction To Youth Development And Agricultural Education Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in the Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education which includes Agricultural Communication and Agricultural Education. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 12200 - Introduction To Natural Resources And Environmental Science Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in Pre-Environmental Studies and Natural Resources and Environmental Science. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 12300 - Introduction To College of Agriculture Interdisciplinary Agriculture Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in Interdisciplinary Agriculture. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 12400 - Introduction To College Of Agriculture Pre Veterinary Medicine Academic Programs

    Credit Hours: 0.50. An introduction to the academic programs offered in Pre-Veterinary Medicine. Topics include, but are not limited to undergraduate plans of study, courses, experiential programs, internships, student organizations, career opportunities, academic policies, scholarships, and student services. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGR 20100 - Communicating Across Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will provide students with an opportunity to understand their place in a multicultural, multiethnic, multinational country, the United States. It is designed to provide an academic overview of the field of multicultural education as it evolved to this day. The course will offer an introductory overview of the many differences that exist within all human beings. Because the diversity among individuals is endless, we cannot study all differences, but will study a sampling such as race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, social class, disability, learning styles, and religion/spiritual orientation. Issues of poverty, language, and social justice may also be examined in relationship to the above major areas of emphasis. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • AGR 29000 - Special Topics In Agriculture

    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. Presentation of subject matter not available in other courses offered by the college. The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student’s academic record. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • AGR 29400 - Directed Readings In Agriculture, Environment, and Society

    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. Presentation of subject matter not available in other courses offered by the college. Directed reading and discussion of books and other documents of significant importance and current interest in agriculture, food systems, renewable natural resources, and the environment. The specific topic that is covered will be indicated on the student’s academic record. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGR 40000 - Agriculture Study Abroad

    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 8.00. Utilized to record credits earned through participation in Purdue study abroad programs with cooperating foreign universities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGR 49000 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. Topics and credit hours to be arranged. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGR 49300 - Special Topics In International Agriculture

    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. A course that provides students interested in international agriculture opportunity for in-depth study and analysis of major issues associated with the relationship of U.S. agriculture to world agriculture and agricultural development abroad. Current and significant topics will be selected. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGR 49400 - Advanced Readings In Agriculture, Environment, and Society

    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. Presentation of subject matter not available in other courses offered by the college. Directed reading and discussion of books and other documents of significant importance and current interest in agriculture, food systems, renewable resources and the environment. The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student’s academic record. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGR 49500 - International Professional Experience In Agriculture, Food, Or Natural Resources

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised international professional experiences in agricultural, food, or natural resource disciplines. The professional experience period must be preplanned and conducted under the supervision of a College of Agriculture faculty member. Students must submit a summary report. Consent of the College of Agriculture international professional experience program coordinator required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGR 49600 - Multicultural Professional Experience

    Credit Hours: 0.00. The multicultural professional experience must be pre-planned and conducted under the supervision of a College of Agriculture faculty member. The experience must be a minimum of four weeks in length. Students must submit a summary report. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.

Agronomy
  

  • AGRY 10500 - Crop Production

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental principles of crop production and distribution. Emphasis is placed on applying technological advances in agronomy to active crop-production situations, including basic soils, agricultural meteorology, and crop physiology and breeding. Typically offered Spring Fall.
  

  • AGRY 11000 - Survey Of Turfgrass Culture

    Credit Hours: 1.00. A survey of the challenges and opportunities available in the turfgrass industry. Students will visit a wide range of turf sites to see turf problems and their solutions. Professional turf managers, upperclass undergraduate students, and faculty will share their experiences with the class to provide a broad perspective of the turf industry to the students. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 15500 - Introduction To Soil Morphology

    Credit Hours: 2.00. This course features an introductory field experience in evaluating soil morphology. Students will develop skills determining horizon nomenclature, texture, soil color, structure, consistence and drainage. Basic concepts regarding the impact of soil morphology on use of soils for various purposes will be presented. Collegiate soil judging is a portion of the subjet matter discussed. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 20400 - Crop And Weed Identification

    Credit Hours: 1.00 or 2.00. (BTNY 20400 ) The identification by sight of plant mounts and seeds of over 200 crops and weeds is taught. The first eight weeks, which covers restricted weeds, prohibited noxious weeds, common weeds, and seed diseases, can be taken for one credit; the last eight weeks covers cereals, grass and legume forages, and legume crops. The list of species to be studied for two credits is obtained from the Intercollegiate Crops Judging Manual. The species to be covered for one credit include the above-listed weeds and additional weed specimens pertinent to the weeds contest. The use and origins of the species are discussed briefly. Suggested course in preparation for AGRY 30500 - Seed Analysis And Grain Grading . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 21000 - Fundamentals Of Turfgrass Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory course in turfgrass management emphasizing turfgrass growth and development, species characteristics, their adaptation and basic cultural requirements for ornamental and functional turfgrass areas. The requirements and cultural inputs needed for proper establishment and maintenance of a high quality, low maintenance lawn will be discussed. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 21100 - Fundamentals Of Turfgrass Culture Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1.00. (HORT 21100) Companion lab to AGRY 21000 . Laboratory exercises will focus on turfgrass and seed anatomy, morphology, identification as well as the hands-on basic principles of turfgrass culture. Designed for the student who intends to pursue a career in turfgrass management and plans to enroll in AGRY 510. Enrollment preference will be given to Turfgrass Science Majors. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 25100 - Introduction To Soils

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Characteristics of soils and associated landscapes; soil genesis and classification; relation of soils to land use; soil management relative to erosion, tillage, drainage, moisture supply, and aeration. Credit cannot be given in both AGRY 25100 and AGRY 25500 /NRES 25500  or AGRY 27000 . Course meets during weeks 1-6. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • AGRY 25500 - Soil Science

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (NRES 25500 ) Differences in soils; soils genesis; physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils; relation of soils to problems of land use and pollution; soil management relative to tillage, erosion, drainage, moisture supply, temperature, aeration, fertility, and plant nutrition. Introduction to fertilizer chemistry and use. Not available to students who have taken AGRY 27000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • AGRY 27000 - Forest Soils

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Development, distribution, and classification of soil profile; soil characteristics related to forest practices; nature and cause of soil differences; fertility and plant nutrition. Not available to students who have taken AGRY 25500  or NRES 25500 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 27500 - Honors Course - Lower Division

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Utilized to offer a new honors course for a maximum of three years. Variable title, credit, and instructional type. Course may be repeated for credit if content and titles are different. Offered primarily to first- and second-year students. Courses offered must be approved by departmental or program faculty and College of Agriculture Honors Committee. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGRY 28500 - World Crop Adaptation And Distribution

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of how environmental factors, including climate and soils, impact the global distribution of major food crops. Identification of the types of naturally occurring plant communities and comparison of these communities with those of environmentally and economically sound field cropping systems. Exploration of how man’s intervention has maintained or modified the productivity of food crops in agricultural communities and how his intervention has affected the environment. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 29000 - Introduction To Environmental Science

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (NRES 29000 , EAPS 11300 ) An introduction to environmental science, including issues such as air and water pollution, toxic waste disposal, soil erosion, natural hazards, climate change, energy resources, and environmental planning. Includes extensive in-class discussion of case studies. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 30500 - Seed Analysis And Grain Grading

    Credit Hours: 2.00. A practical study of factors influencing commercial grain quality and purity of seed lots. Training in the ability to recognize crop products for their market worth by knowing defects that reduce grain quality. Purity analysis of seed lots will be performed. In-depth identification of 200 crops and weeds important to United States agriculture. Intercollegiate crops judging is a portion of the subject matter discussed. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 30600 - Seed Technology

    Credit Hours: 2.00. An introduction to the seed industry with emphasis on morphological development, production, cleaning, and testing as well as storage and merchandising techniques. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 31100 - Turfgrass Diagnostics

    Credit Hours: 1.00. An intermediate to advanced level course covering relevant applied problem solving skills required to be a professional turfgrass manager. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 32000 - Genetics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The transmission of heritable traits; probability; genotypic-environmental interactions; chromosomal aberrations; polyploidy; gene mutations; genes in populations; the structure and function of nucleic acids; biochemical genetics; molecular genetics; coding. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • AGRY 32100 - Genetics Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Experiments with plants and microorganisms to elucidate the basic concepts of molecular and classical genetics as applied to genome analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • AGRY 33500 - Weather And Climate

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory course in meteorology and climatology with applications to daily life. The study of the fundamental physical principles behind weather and climate and how they apply to the homeowner and the world citizen. Emphasis is on how to interpret weather conditions and forecasts, what controls the wide range of climates in the world, and what the future may hold. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 33700 - Environmental Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to provide undergraduate students with both the basics of how water moves through the environment and current theories as to how hydrologic response is modified by environmental change at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 33800 - Environmental Hydrology Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1.00. This laboratory course is designed to provide hands-on examples of the hydrologic concepts covered in the AGRY 33700 - Environmental Hydrology  class and with practical experience in hydrologic field techniques. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 34900 - Soil Ecology

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory course that will cover the basic concepts of soil ecology. Biological diversity and the interactions between and within biotic and abiotic components of the soil ecosystem, nutrient cycling, and genetic engineering are introduced. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 35000 - Global Awareness

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. A seminar-type course about world geography, cultures, and agriculture. Speakers are selected from the many Purdue graduate students and visiting scholars from around the world. Extra credit may be earned through independent study of a global issue. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 35500 - Soil Morphology And Geography

    Credit Hours: 2.00. This course features field experience in advanced techniques in soil morphology including the study of the relationship of soils to landscaped, common parent materials of Midwest and classification of soils in the Soil Taxonomy. Course material emphasizes the development of detailed descriptions of soil properties and how these properties directly impact the interpretations and recommendations for land use options. Use and management of soils based on landscape position and morphology will be covered including on-site waste disposal, homes with basements as well as road and street construction. Collegiate soil judging is a portion of the subject matter discussed. Requires class trips. Students will pay individual lodging or meal expenses when necessary. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 36500 - Soil Fertility

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of soil chemistry and physics influencing plant nutrition; emphasis on diagnosis and solution of problems on soil reaction and nutrient status; fertilizer chemistry and use; reaction of pesticides and growth regulators with soils. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 37500 - Crop Production Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Factors affecting management decisions in crop production systems. Development of small grain and row cropping systems. Interaction of factors affecting efficient production systems, including seed selection, tillage, planting management, pest management, and harvesting and storage considerations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • AGRY 38000 - Field Crop Diagnostic Techniques

    Credit Hours: 1.00. (BTNY 380, ENTM 380) Identification of field crop problems via in-field diagnostic techniques, determination of the magnitude of problems utilizing in-field thresholds, evaluation of optional multidisciplinary management strategies, and development of appropriate strategies based upon economic, environmental, and cultural concepts. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer.
  

  • AGRY 38500 - Environmental Soil Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 4.00. (NRES 38500 ) Designed as an upper level introductory course covering environmental soil chemistry concepts in framework most applicable to inorganic and organic chemical contamination of soil and water resources and intended for students in environmental science fields that may not have a strong chemistry and/or math background. (el.5). Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 39000 - Professional Cooperative Programs In Agronomy

    Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised professional experiences in agronomy. Programs must be preplanned and conducted under the direction of the departmental coordinator with the cooperation of an employer. Students must submit a summary report. Consent of the departmental cooperative professional program coordinator required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGRY 39800 - Agronomy Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Weekly discussions of agronomic topics and other subjects relative to agronomic interest. Students are expected to participate in the discussions. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 39900 - Individual Study

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Supervised individual study or research over topics not covered in other courses. Arrange with agronomy faculty before registering. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • AGRY 40000 - Agronomy Study Abroad

    Credit Hours: 0.00 to 8.00. Utilized to record credits earned through participation in Purdue study abroad programs with cooperating foreign universities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGRY 43100 - Atmospheric Thermodynamics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 42100 ) Structure and composition of the atmosphere. Thermodynamics of dry and moist air, including adiabatic and pseudoadiabatic processes, hydrostatic stability, and air mass determination. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 43200 - Atmospheric Dynamics I

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 42200 ) A study of the general system of equations governing mass and momentum changes in the atmosphere; special horizontal wind representations; thermal wind relationships; circulation, vorticity, divergence, and vertical motion. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 43300 - Atmospheric Dynamics II

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 42300 ) An extension of AGRY 43200  with the emphasis on perturbation theory and hydrodynamic stability, air mass and frontal theory, barotrophic and baroclinic models, wave cyclone theory, and numerical weather prediction. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 44100 - Synoptic Laboratory I

    Credit Hours: 1.00. (EAPS 43100 ) Analysis of vertical distributions of temperature and moisture with applications to adiabatic and pseudoadiabatic processes, hydrostatic stability, and air mass determination. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 44200 - Synoptic Laboratory II

    Credit Hours: 1.00. (EAPS 43200 ) Analysis of horizontal distributions of pressure, temperature, wind, vorticity, and vertical motions. Applications to synopticscale wave propagation. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 44300 - Synoptic Laboratory III

    Credit Hours: 1.00. (EAPS 43300 ) Diagnosis of midtropospheric wave propagation and growth. Analysis of surface pressure fields and fronts and their relationships to upper air features. Extensive use is made of teletype and facsimile weather information. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 44400 - Weather Analysis And Forecasting

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 43400 ) In-depth study of contemporary weather analysis and forecasting techniques and problems. Extensive use is made of teletype and facsimile data and numerical weather prediction guidance provided by the National Meteorological Center. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 45000 - Soil Conservation and Water Management

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (NRES 45000 ) Principles of soil conservation with emphasis on control of soil erosion by wind and water; impact of soil management decisions on environment; soil-water-plant relations, includes agronomic aspects of water management for both irrigation and drainage. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 46000 - Contemporary Issues In Agriculture

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ANTH 46000 ) Current agricultural issues are examined from a problem-solving standpoint. Class includes discussion and debate of the social, economic, and technological decisions facing agricultural communities. Agricultural issues are examined from a humanistic as well as a scientific viewpoint. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 46500 - Soil Physical Properties

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Physical properties and processes in soils; water flow, soil structure, chemical movement; principles and methods of physical analysis of soils; the influence of soil physical processes on environmental quality and plant growth. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 47500 - Honors Course - Upper Division

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Utilized to offer a new honors course for a maximum of three years. Variable title, credit, and instructional type. Course may be repeated for credit if content and titles are different. Offered primarily to third- and fourth-year students. Courses offered must be approved by departmental or program faculty and College of Agriculture Honors Committee. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGRY 48000 - Plant Genetics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles and recent advances in plant genetics including: genetic segregation, linkage, DNA markers and applications, chromosomes and genomes, variation in chromosome number and structure, mutation, recombination and DNA repair, quantitatively inherited traits, introduction to principles of population genetics, gene expression, gene organization, regulation of gene activity, gene function, identifying important genes, cloning genes, reverse genetics, plant transformation, applications of genetic engineering, genome sequencing, using sequence data. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 49800 - Agronomy Senior Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Weekly discussions and presentations on assigned topics in Agronomy, interpersonal interactions, professional ethics, and leadership skills. Student teams will evaluate case studies and present their analysis orally and in writing. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 49900 - Thesis Research

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. For students doing individualized research on agronomic problems; report required. Arrange with academic advisor and honors research advisor before registering. Admission to honors program. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • AGRY 50500 - Forage Management

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The study of the role of economically important crop species in the soil-plant-animal complex. Physiology, utilization, and management of forage species will be emphasized. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 51000 - Turfgrass Science

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An advanced course in turfgrass management which focuses on the management requirements of intensively cultured turfgrass areas, with a specific emphasis on golf course and athletic fields. Interrelationships among soil, plant and atmospheric environments, management practices and turfgrass quality will be stressed. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 51100 - Population Genetics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (ANSC 51100 , FNR 51100 ) Basic concepts of population genetics. Characterization of populations using gene frequencies, gametic and zygotic disequilibrium; forces changing gene frequencies (mutation, migration, selection, and random genetic drift) and genotypic frequencies (mating systems: inbreeding, crossbreeding, and phenotypic assortative) and related hypothesis testing; gene trees and the coalescent process; and molecular phylogenies. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 51200 - Integrated Turfgrass Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Integration of agronomic principles for professionally managing golf courses, athletic complexes, lawn care companies, and sod production facilities in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner. Emphasizes independent thinking and team cooperation for understanding the social, ethical, and economical aspects underlying the daily agronomic management decisions, including construction, establishment, cultural practices, fertilization, and pest management. Course meets for weeks 1-10. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 51500 - Plant Mineral Nutrition

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental principles and concepts of the mineral nutrition of higher plants; processes and mechanisms controlling nutrient bioavailablilty and acquisition; physiological, genetic, and ecological aspects of plant nutrition including rhizosphere dynamics and interaction with disease. Offered in even-numbered years. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 52000 - Principles And Methods Of Plant Breeding

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to methods and techniques of breeding field crops, with emphasis on the application of genetic principles; analysis of and present approach to the solution of specific breeding problems in selected field crops. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 52500 - Crop Physiology And Ecology

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the physiological basis for growth, yield, and adaptation of crop plants. Topics emphasized include: carbohydrate assimilation and partitioning, nitrogen metabolism, crop growth and development, water relations, stress tolerance, and crop improvement using physiological genetics. Basic background in college level plant biology is recommended. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 53000 - Advanced Plant Genetics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced treatment of principles and recent advances in plant genetics including: mutagenesis; cell, molecular and direct approaches to genetic analysis and genetic interactions; haploidy; chromosomal organization and aberrations; transposable elements; mutations, paramutation and epigenetics in higher plants; extranuclear inheritance; cytogenetic and molecular affinities between crop plants and their wild relatives; genetic manipulations; gene discovery; genetic approaches to understanding agriculturally useful plant traits. ESTs and global gene expression analysis, proteomics, metabolic profiling, comparative genomics and geonme evolution. Offered in odd-numbered years. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • AGRY 53500 - Boundary Layer Meteorology

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (EASP 52500) This course has required class trips. Students will pay individual lodging or meal expenses where necessary. A study of the physical nature of the lowest layers of the atmosphere. The energy balance concept and the turbulent transfer of heat, momentum, and water vapor are discussed in detail. Some specific microclimates are studied in this context. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 53600 - Environmental Biophysics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An analysis of the energy fluxes to and from terrestrial plants, insects, mammals, and humans as they exist in their macro and microclimates. Agricultural meteorology methods (both research and operational) will be presented. Labs will be both in-laboratory and in-field with reports required. A special project will be required of all students and will be presented in class and written as if for publication. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 54000 - Soil Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Emphasis on processes controlling the gaseous, solution, and solid phases in soils including precipitation, acid-base, oxidation-reduction, complexation, absorption, and ion exchange. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • AGRY 54400 - Environmental Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The fundamental properties and processes responsible for the fate of organic chemicals in the environment, with emphasis on soil and water chemistry. Areas to be addressed will include both conceptual and theoretical aspects of processes relevant to environmental fate of contaminants; measurement, estimation, correlation, and application of the parameters most commonly used to assess various chemodynamic properties in soil-water systems. Typically offered in spring semester of even-numbered years.
 

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