AGRONOMY

Principles of Agronomy

Course Number: Agronomy (Agron) 114, section XC

Credit: 3 undergraduate credits

Tuition: $612 undergraduate plus $100 delivery fee

COMBINATION CD-ROM AND ONLINE http://www.agron.iastate.edu/courses/agron114/

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Registration Deadline: August 15, 2005

   A foundation course in agronomy emphasizing principles of plant, soil, and climate relationships in crop production. Topics include crop biology and management, soils and soil water management, tillage and seeding, plant breeding, seed and grain quality, pest management, and agricultural sustainability. Goals: 1) To develop an understanding of the science and principles of agricultural crop production systems and the importance of crops to our society. 2) To develop a basic foundation for continued learning in agronomy courses and for agricultural related careers. 3) To develop an appreciation and knowledge of agro-ecology, environmental risks, and sustainability practices for crop agriculture.

Prerequisite: permission of the instructor, gina@iastate.edu

Computer Requirements: College of Agriculture requirements

Instructor: Gina McAndrews

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Introduction to Renewable Resources

Course Number: Natural Resource Ecology and Management (NREM) 120/Agricultural Systems Technology (AST) 120 /Agronomy (Agron) 120/Environmental Studies (Env S) 120, section XC

Credit: 3 undergraduate credits

Tuition: $612 undergraduate plus $115 delivery fee

COMBINATION CD-ROM AND ONLINE

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Registration Deadline: August 8, 2005

   Overview of soil, water, plants, and animals as renewable natural resources in an ecosystem context. History and organization of resource management. Concepts of integrated resource management.

Prerequisite: off-campus students only

Computer Requirements: College of Agriculture recommendations

Note: May be applied toward Bachelor of Liberal Studies (Natural sciences group of the general education requirements or distribution area of natural sciences and mathematics)

Instructor: Richard Hall, Professor

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Crop Growth and Development

Course Number: Agronomy (Agron) 501, section XC

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $954 graduate plus $150 delivery fee

COMBINATION CD-ROM AND ONLINE http://masters.agron.iastate.edu

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Enrollment Deadline: August 15, 2005

   Physiological processes in crop growth, development and yield: photosynthesis, respiration, water relations, mineral nutrition, partition of assimilates, seedling vigor, light interception and canopy growth, root growth, reproduction and yield.

Prerequisites: Agron 114 (Principles of Agronomy), Chemistry 163 (General Chemistry), Math 140 (College Algebra), and Biology 109 (Introductory Biology) or equivalent; restricted to graduate students enrolled in degree programs at Iowa State University; if not enrolled in MS in Agronomy, contact msagron@iastate.edu

Recommended Minimum Computer Requirements: PC with Windows Operating System, 200 MHz processor, video, audio, and graphics capabilities, 64 Mb RAM and CD-ROM, Internet access, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office

Note: May be applied toward Master of Agriculture, Master of Science in Agronomy

Instructors: Deborah Muenchrath

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Chemistry, Physics, and Biology of Soils

Course Number: Agronomy (Agron) 502, section XC

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $954 graduate, plus $150 delivery fee

COMBINATION CD-ROM AND ONLINE http://masters.agron.iastate.edu

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Enrollment Deadline: August 15, 2005

   Study soil chemical, physical, and biological properties that control processes within the soil, their influence on plant/soil interactions, and soil classification. Understand problems associated with soil and crop science applications.

Prerequisites: Agron 114 (Principles of Agronomy), Agron 154 (Fundamentals of Soil Science) or equivalent, Biology 109 (Introductory Biology), Math 140 (College Algebra) or equivalent, and Chemistry 163 (General Chemistry) or equivalent; restricted to graduate students enrolled in degree programs at Iowa State University; if not enrolled in MS in Agronomy, contact msagron@iastate.edu

Recommended Minimum Computer Requirements: PC with Windows Operating System, 200 MHz processor, video, audio, and graphics capabilities, 64 Mb RAM and CD-ROM, Internet access, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office

Note: May be applied toward Master of Agriculture, Master of Science in Agronomy

Instructor: TBA

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Climate and Crop Growth

Course Number: Agronomy (Agron) 503, section XC

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $945 graduate plus $150 delivery fee

COMBINATION CD-ROM AND ONLINE http://masters.agron.iastate.edu

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Enrollment Deadline: August 15, 2005

   Applied concepts in agricultural meteorology with emphasis on the weather-agriculture relationship and the microclimate-agriculture interaction.

Prerequisites: Agron 114 (Principles of Agronomy) or equivalent and Math 140 (College Algebra) or equivalent; restricted to graduate students enrolled in degree programs at Iowa State University; if not enrolled in MS in Agronomy, contact Dan Dobill, msagron@iastate.edu

Recommended Minimum Computer Requirements: PC with Windows Operating System, 200 MHz processor, video, audio, and graphics capabilities, 64 Mb RAM and CD-ROM, Internet access, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office

Note: May be applied toward Master of Agriculture, Master of Science in Agronomy

Instructor: Elwynn Taylor

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Crop Management and Ecology

Course Number: Agronomy (Agron) 531, section XC

Credit: 2 graduate credits

Tuition: $636 graduate plus $100 delivery fee

COMBINATION CD-ROM AND ONLINE http://masters.agron.iastate.edu

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Enrollment Deadline: August 15, 2005

   Environmental factors affecting crop growth and yield. Climatic and edaphic adaptation of crop species. Management systems for crops with an emphasis on the ecology of row and forage crops common to the Midwest.

Prerequisites: Agron 501 (Crop Growth and Development), 502 (Chemistry, Physics, and Biology of Soils), and 503 (Climate and Crop Growth); restricted to graduate students enrolled in degree programs at Iowa State University; if not enrolled in MS in Agronomy, contact msagron@iastate.edu

Recommended Prerequisites: Agron 512 (Soil-Plant Environment) and 514 (Integrated Pest Management)

Recommended Minimum Computer Requirements: PC with Windows Operating System, 200 MHz processor, video, audio, and graphics capabilities, 64 Mb RAM and CD-ROM, Internet access, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office

Note: May be applied toward Master of Agriculture, Master of Science in Agronomy

Instructor: Deborah Muenchrath

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Soil Management

Course Number: Agronomy (Agron) 532, section XC

Credit: 2 graduate credits

Tuition: $636 graduate plus $100 delivery fee

COMBINATION CD-ROM AND ONLINE http://masters.agron.iastate.edu

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Enrollment Deadline: August 15, 2005

   Evaluate the impact of various soil management practices on soil and water resources. Combine and apply basic information gained in Agron 502 and Agron 512. Emphasizes the agronomic, economic, and environmental effects of soil management strategies.

Prerequisites: Agron 502 (Chemistry, Physics, and Biology of Soils) and Agron 512 (Soil-Plant Environment); restricted to graduate students enrolled in degree programs at Iowa State University; if not enrolled in MS in Agronomy, contact msagron@iastate.edu

Recommended Minimum Computer Requirements: PC with Windows Operating System, 200 MHz processor, video, audio, and graphics capabilities, 64 Mb RAM and CD-ROM, Internet access, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office

Note: May be applied toward Master of Agriculture, Master of Science in Agronomy

Instructor: Richard Cruse

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Crop Protection

Course Number: Agronomy (Agron) 533, section XC

Credit: 2 graduate credits

Tuition: $636 graduate plus $100 delivery fee

COMBINATION CD-ROM AND ONLINE http://masters.agron.iastate.edu

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Enrollment Deadline: August 15, 2005

   Integrated management systems for important crop pests. Cultural, biological and chemical control strategies applicable to major crops grown in the Midwest.

Prerequisites: Agron 514 (Integrated Pest Management), restricted to graduate students admitted to specific programs at Iowa State University; if not enrolled in MS in Agronomy, contact msagron@iastate.edu

Recommended Minimum Computer Requirements: PC with Windows Operating System, 200 MHz processor, video, audio, and graphics capabilities, 64 Mb RAM and CD-ROM, Internet access, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office

Note: May be applied toward Master of Agriculture, Master of Science in Agronomy

Instructor: Allan Ciha

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Applied Agricultural Meteorology

Course Number: Agronomy (Agron) 541, section XC

Credit: 2 graduate credits

Tuition: $636 graduate plus $65 delivery fee

CD-ROM

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Enrollment Deadline: August 15, 2005

   Applied concepts in agricultural meteorology. Basic concepts of weather and of crop/climate relationships influencing production, protection, yield and associated production risk factors. Self study sections are available to resident and to distant education students all semesters. (Credit for only one of 503 or 541 may be applied toward graduation at ISU, not both.)

Prerequisite: Agron 206 (Introduction to Meteorology) or upper-level biological science course

Computer Requirements: College of Agriculture recommendations

Note: May be applied toward Master of Agriculture

Instructor: S. Elwynn Taylor

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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Risk Assessment for Food, Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine

Course Number: Agronomy (Agron) 570X/Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine (VDPAM) 570X, section XW

Credit: 3 graduate credits

Tuition: $954 graduate plus $40 delivery fee

ONLINE

Dates: August 22-December 16, 2005

Registration Deadline: August 15, 2005

   Risk assessment principles as applied to biological systems. Exposure and effects characterization in human and animal health and ecological risk assessment. Risk analysis frameworks and regulatory decision-making. Introduction to quantitative methods for risk assessment using epidemiological and distributional analyses. Uncertainty analysis.

Prerequisite: Stat 104 or equivalent

Computer Requirements: College of Agriculture recommendations

Microsoft Excel, a student copy of @Risk Professional from Palisade, http://www.palisade.com/

Note: May be applied toward Master of Agriculture, Master of Science in Agronomy

Instructors: Scott Hurd, and Jeff Wolt

For information visit: http://www.lifelearner.iastate.edu/courses/disciplineFa05.htm or call Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. toll free (800) 262-0015.

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How to contact us for more information:

Southwest Iowa Regents Resource Center
3501 Harry Langdon Blvd
ISD Campus, Careers Bldg
Council Bluffs, Iowa 51503
Phone: 712-366-3647
Fax: 712-366-1723
E-mail: swirrc@iastate.edu