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      Syllabus
      World Crops and Cropping Systems
       
       

      CSES 3444
       
       
      Week
       
      Topic
      Online
      Readings
      Week 1
       
      Introduction
      Soils/Physical Properties of Soils
      Multimedia:"Across China's Temperate Zones"
       
      Lecture 1
      Lecture 2 & 3
      Week 2
       
      Soil/Water/Plant Relations
      Organic MatterPlant
      Nutrients and Fertilizer
      Multimedia: "Humid-Cool-Temperate Zone (Maine)"
      Lecture 4 & 5
      Lecture 6
       
      Week 3
       
      Corn, Sorghum & Millet
      Multimedia: "Corn, Sorghum, and Millet"
       
       
       
      Lecture 7 & 8
      Lecture 9
       
      Week 4
       
      Wheat
      Rye & Barley
       
       Multimedia: "Small Grains" 
      Lecture 10 & 11
      Lecture 12
      Week 5
       
      Oats, Buckwheat, Rice
      Multimedia: "Humid-Cool-Temperate Zone (Michigan)"
      Click HERE to learn even more about the cool-temperate zones
      Exam I
       
      Lecture 13, 14 & 15 
      Week 6
       
      Cowpeas
      Field Beans, Peanuts & Soybeans
      Flax
      Multimedia: "Semi-Arid, Cool Temperate Zone (Red River Valley)"
      Click HERE to learn even more about the semi-arid zone.
      Last Week to Drop Classes Without Grade Penalty
      Lecture 16 
      Lecture 17, 18 & 19
      Lecture 20 
      Week 7
       Cotton & Jute
      Sugarcane & Sugarbeets
      White Potato 
      Multimedia: "Humid-Semi-Arid, Cool Temperate Zone (Palouse)"
      Click HERE to learn even more about humid zones.
      Lecture 21 & 22
      Lecture 23 & 24
      Lecture 25 
      Week 8
      Cassava ;& Cropping Systems
      Climate & Crop Production Systems
      Multimedia: "Humid, Warm Temperate Zone (Brazil)"
      Last Week to Resign Classes Without Grade Penalty
      Lecture 26 & 27
      Lecture 28
      Week 9
      Crop Production Systems in Humid-Cool Temperate Zones
       
      Multimedia: "Arid-Semi-Arid Warm Temperate Zone (CA)"
       
       

        Lecture 29
       
       
       

      Week 10 
       
      Crop Production Systems in Arid and Semi-Arid Cool Temperate Zones
      Continued
      Multimedia: "Mediterranean Zone (Coastal CA)"
      Exam II
      Lecture 30
      Week 11
      Crop Production in the Humid-Warm Temperate Zones
      Continued
      Multimedia: "Humid American Tropics (Brazil)"
      Lecture 31
      Week 12
      Crop Production Systems in Arid and Semi-Arid and Warm Temperate and Mediterrean Zones 
      Continued
      Multimedia: "Humid Asian Tropics (Thailand)"
      		 Lecture 32 & 33
      Week 13
       
      Crop Production in Humid Tropical America
      Continued
      Term Paper Due
      Multimedia: "Wet/Dry Tropics (Mali)"
       
      Lecture 34
      Week 14

      Crop Production Systems in Arid and Semi-Arid Tropcial Tropical Zones Continued

      Multimedia: "Semi-Arid Tropics (Niger)"

      		Lecture 35& 36
      Week 15
        
      Class wrap up
      Last Day of Class
      Multimedia: "Make up Missed Programs"
       
      Final Exam