I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Advanced Soils and Plant Nutrition
2. Course Prefix & Number:
SCMT 2131
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
4. Course Description:
This course identifies the nutrient needs for various specialty crops and alternative methods of achieving and maintaining desired nutrient levels. Students will learn how CEC and pH influence soil fertility and which nutrients are best added with foliar feeding.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
SCMT 2131 - Advanced Soils and Plant Nutrition
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
SCMT 2131 - Advanced Soils and Plant Nutrition
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
III. Course Purpose
Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
Specialty Crops Management, Diploma
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate reading and listening skills |
Interpret tissue analyses |
| Assess alternative solutions to a problem |
Identify which nutrients are best applied to the soil versus nutrients best applied as a foliar fertilizer |
| Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations |
Explain Cation Exchange Capacity influences on liming and fertilizer rates |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Describe different soil texture types
- Explain how different soil texture types must be fertilized differently
- Interpret the cation exchange capacity to develop fertilizer or lime recommendations
- Explain how soil pH affects nutrient availability
- Identify the nutrients most effectively applied by foliar feeding
- Identify the relationship of soil organic matter levels to soil fertility
- Discuss the interaction of soil mineral elements with each other
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Reading and interpreting soil analysis
- Importance of soil pH
- Cation exchange capacity
- Identify soil texture classes using a soil analysis
- Describe the importance of soil organic matter
- Elements that are accurately measured in a soil analysis
- Elements not accurately measured in a soil analysis
- Reading and interpreting plant tissue analyses
- Identify nutrients most effectively applied by foliar feeding
- The influence of leaf age on measured plant nutrients
- The influence of sampling date on leaf nutrients
- Optimum nutrient levels for different crops
- Interactions between plant nutrients
- Fertilization plans using soil and tissue analyses
- Optimum soil pH for different crops
- Liming and cation exchange capacity
- Nutrients that are easily leached
- Nutrients that are tightly bound to soil particles
- Cation nutrients
- Anion nutrients
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Advanced Soils and Plant Nutrition
2. Course Prefix & Number:
SCMT 2131
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
4. Course Description:
This course identifies the nutrient needs for various specialty crops and alternative methods of achieving and maintaining desired nutrient levels. Students will learn how CEC and pH influence soil fertility and which nutrients are best added with foliar feeding.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
SCMT 2131 - Advanced Soils and Plant Nutrition
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
SCMT 2131 - Advanced Soils and Plant Nutrition
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
Specialty Crops Management, Diploma
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate reading and listening skills |
Interpret tissue analyses |
| Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations |
Explain Cation Exchange Capacity influences on liming and fertilizer rates |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Describe different soil texture types
- Explain how different soil texture types must be fertilized differently
- Interpret the cation exchange capacity to develop fertilizer or lime recommendations
- Explain how soil pH affects nutrient availability
- Identify the nutrients most effectively applied by foliar feeding
- Identify the relationship of soil organic matter levels to soil fertility
- Discuss the interaction of soil mineral elements with each other
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Reading and interpreting soil analysis
- Importance of soil pH
- Cation exchange capacity
- Identify soil texture classes using a soil analysis
- Describe the importance of soil organic matter
- Elements that are accurately measured in a soil analysis
- Elements not accurately measured in a soil analysis
- Reading and interpreting plant tissue analyses
- Identify nutrients most effectively applied by foliar feeding
- The influence of leaf age on measured plant nutrients
- The influence of sampling date on leaf nutrients
- Optimum nutrient levels for different crops
- Interactions between plant nutrients
- Fertilization plans using soil and tissue analyses
- Optimum soil pH for different crops
- Liming and cation exchange capacity
- Nutrients that are easily leached
- Nutrients that are tightly bound to soil particles
- Cation nutrients
- Anion nutrients