Soil and Water Sciences Dep

The Department of Soil and Water Sciences was established in the College of Agriculture in 1982. It is concerned with soil sciences, including physics, fertility and soil chemistry. It is also interested in methods of soil reclamation and maintenance, and many of the sciences that students of the College of Agriculture need in their working life.

The Department of Soil and Water Sciences deals with students of the second and third years (general trunk) and with students of the fourth and fifth years of specialization, where it introduces them to a set of courses and information that is the cornerstone in understanding soil sciences.
The department has a set of courses that complement each other and are distributed over the first and second semesters.

- Fertilizer chemistry - Soil conservation - Colloids - Geology and principles of soil science - Microbiology - Soil fertility and fertilization - Vegetation cover and soil conservation - Forest soils and their maintenance - Aerial photography and maps - Soil fertility and plant nutrition Soil revival and biofertilization - Soil geochemistry - Land reclamation 1 - Land reclamation 2 Soil physics Fertilizer chemistry - Soil maintenance - Colloids and their properties - Land inventory and soil classification - Basics of radioactive isotopes - Vegetation cover and soil conservation - Clay minerals - Origin and formation of soil - Soil chemistry - Soil and water pollution

The department's courses cover 15 faculty members (12 of them at the rank of professor, one at the rank of assistant professor and two at the rank of teacher. The department also includes 10 teaching assistants, five internally delegates and 5 external delegates, as well as 7 members of the technical staff and a number of administrative engineers