CORE CURRICULUM IN PLANT PATHOLOGY

The Core Curriculum in Plant Pathology is required of all M.S. and Ph.D students majoring in Botany and Plant Pathology with an area of concentration in Plant Pathology. (Students may be excused from particular courses if they can demonstrate that they have taken equivalent courses in a graduate program at another institution).

I. Required Courses.

( All plant pathology students must take the 3 courses listed.):

BOT 550 Plant Pathology (5 credits)

BOT 552 Plant Disease Management (4 credits)

BOT 651 Molecular Basis of Plant Pathogenesis (3 credits)

II. Electives.

(All plant pathology students must select at least 8 credits from the following list of courses.):

BOT 507 Seminar (1 credit)

BOT 515 Forest Insect and Disease Management (5 credtis)

BOT 553 Plant Disease Diagnosis (3 credits)

BOT 554 Plant Pathogenic Nematodes (2 credits)**

BOT 555 Plant Virology (3 credits)

BOT 561 Introductory Mycology (4 credits)

BOT 590 Selected Topics in Mycology: Fungal Symbiosis (3 credits)

BOT 590 Selected Topics in Mycology: Fungal Systematics (3 credits)

BOT 616 Forest Pathology (3 credits)

 

BOT 668 Plant Disease Dynamics (4 credits)*

BOT 692 Selected Topics in Plant Pathology:

Advanced Plant Nematology (2 credits)*

BOT 692 Selected Topics in Plant Pathology (1-3 credits)

(Topics vary; may be repeated for credit)

 

Courses listed in bold type are offered every year.

Courses listed in italics are offered in alternate years.

* = Course titles were changed in 1999. BOT 651 was formerly BOT 551 Plant Pathogenesis; BOT 668 was formerly BOT 668 Host Parasite Interactions: Populations.

** = Offered as 5-week courses with 3 one-hour lectures and 1 three-hour laboratory per week