The Environmental Soil Science option will prepare students to effectively manage soil for the production of agricultural commodities and preserve this important natural resource for the benefit of man and the protection of the environment.

Students selecting this option need to take Botany 101 and 101L (or their equivalent) or Biology 172 and 172L (or their equivalent), Chemistry 15l and 151L and 152 and 152L or 161, and 161L and 162 and 162L (or their equivalent), Economics 130, Physics 151 and 151L, and Business writing (English 209). Some of these courses will fulfill part of the Natural Science requirement of the UH General Education Requirement. These courses are considered prerequisite to courses in the major.

• TPSS 200 Tropical Plant Science
  
• TPSS 300 Tropical Crop Production Systems
  
• TPSS 351 Enterprise Management
  
• TPSS 304 Fundamentals of Soil Science
  
• TPSS 435 Environmental Soil Chemistry
  
• TPSS 450 Nutrient Management Soils & Plants
  
• NREM 301 Natural Resource Management
  
• Math 215 Calculus
  
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• TPSS 460 Plant Soil Atmosphere Physics
  
• TPSS 499 Directed Study
  
• NREM 461 Soil Erosion and Conservation
  
• MICRO 485 Microbial Ecology
  
• MET 101 Introduction to Meteorology
  
• GEOG 101/101L The Natural Environment
  
• ICS 101/ 101L Tools for the Computer Age