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Certificate Program
Who may apply - How to apply - Requirements Program description in FIU Catalog (2008-2009) This interdisciplinary program under the Department of Earth and Environment is aimed at providing students with an opportunity to learn problems and issues that emerge from the interface between agriculture, natural ecosystems and urban areas. Students will gain an appreciation of how traditional agricultural production systems will influence the quality of natural ecosystems and human environment, and also what ecological and developmental pressure that agriculture comes under from the human system. The program will emphasize natural and economic services that are provided by large agricultural areas interspersed between urban and natural areas. Students will learn structural changes that are necessary within agriculture in order to make it ecologically sustainable and community supported. The program includes farm- and field-level experiential learning through internships, field demonstrations and minor experiments. This is a collaborative effort between Florida International University, US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Archbold Biological Station’s MacArthur Agro-Ecology Research Center (MAERC) and Miami Dade College (MDC).
Any incoming undergraduate student or any undergraduate student enrolled at Florida International University may complete the agroecology certificate requirements.
Completion of the required Agroecology Certificate courses (in addition to the courses required by the student's chosen undergraduate degree) will result in graduation with a Certificate in Agroecology. To apply, please contact: Dr. Mahadev Bhat
Program description in FIU Catalog (2006-2007) 18 credit hours divided as follows: 1. Introductory ecology requirement: Take any one of the following: PCB 3043+L Ecology plus Lab 2. Agroecology core requirement: EVR 4274 Sustainable Agriculture 3. Agricultural internship or problem analysis: Student must complete a farm-, field- or lab-based internship that may involve working on farms, carrying out agro-ecological field observations, carrying out agricultural science lab experiments, conducting geo-spatial modeling, or conducting an agriculture-related socio-economic analysis (2 - 3 credit hours) 4. Any two agricultural/environmental studies courses: EVR 4592 Soils and Ecosystems Please contact the department for more course options |
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