Bachelor’s Degree Programs
021900.62 Pedology
Specialization: Land Management
Study Period: 4 years
Language of Instruction: Russian
Course Title | Hours | First Year | Second Year | Third Year | Fourth Year | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
B1 Humanitarian, Social and Economic Cycle | | | | | | | | | |
B1.B Basic Part | | | | | | | | | |
1. Philosophy | 108 | 3 | | | | | | | |
2. History | 108 | 3 | | | | | | | |
3. Foreign Language | 288 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | | | |
4. Psychology and Pedagogy | 72 | | | | | 2 | | | |
5. Economics | 72 | | | 2 | | | | | |
6. Land Law | 72 | | | | | | 2 | | |
B1.V Variable Part | | | | | | | | | |
1. Social Ecology | 72 | | | | 2 | | | | |
2. Economics of Natural Management | 72 | | | | | | | 2 | |
3. History of Pedology | 72 | | | | | | 2 | | |
4. Peculiarities of Soil in Irkutsk Region | 72 | | | | | | | | 2 |
5. Basis of Management | 108 | | | 3 | | | | | |
6. History of Cadastre of Natural Resources (optional) 7. Protected Natural Areas of Baikal Region (optional) | 72 | | | 2 | | | | | |
8. State Regulation of Public Land Relations (optional) 9. Principles of State Administration Service in Natural Management (optional) | 72 | | | | | | | 2 | |
B2 Mathematics and Natural Science Cycle | | | | | | | | | |
B2.B Basic Part | | | | | | | | | |
1. Mathematics | 180 | 2.5 | 2.5 | | | | | | |
2. Physics | 144 | 2 | 2 | | | | | | |
3. Informatics | 144 | | | | | 4 | | | |
4. General and Inorganic Chemistry | 72 | 2 | | | | | | | |
5. Organic Chemistry | 108 | | | 3 | | | | | |
6. Analytic, Physical, Colloid Chemistry | 72 | | | | 2 | | | | |
7. Geology | 108 | 3 | | | | | | | |
8. Pedology | 216 | 3.5 | 2.5 | | | | | | |
9. Geobotany-based Botany | 72 | | 2 | | | | | | |
10. Ecology | 108 | | | 3 | | | | | |
B2.V Variable Part | | | | | | | | | |
1. Agroclimatology | 108 | 3 | | | | | | | |
2. Mineralogy and Petrography | 72 | | 2 | | | | | | |
3. Geomorphology | 72 | | 2 | | | | | | |
4. Geodesy | 72 | | 2 | | | | | | |
5. Plant Cultivation | 72 | | | | | 2 | | | |
6. Land Cadastre and Realty Objects Cadastre | 108 | | | | | 3 | | | |
7. Cartography of Soils | 72 | | | | | 2 | | | |
8. Mezomorphology of Soils | 72 | | | | 2 | | | | |
9. Anthropogenic-Modified Soils and Man-made Surface Transformations (optional) 10. Landscape Design of Garden Plots (optional) | 72 | | | | 2 | | | | |
11. Soil-Landscape Design (optional) 12. GIS in Soil Cartography (optional) | 72 | | | | | | 2 | | |
13. Soil Red Book (optional) 14. Cryogenic Soils and their Use (optional) | 72 | | | | | | 2 | | |
15. Forensic Soil Examination (optional) 16. Optimization of Soil Fertility (optional) | 72 | | | | | | | | 2 |
17. Catastrophes in Earth History (optional) 18. GIS in Earth Science (optional) | 144 | | 4 | | | | | | |
19. Baikal Studies (optional) 20. Ecology and Biosphere Protection at Chemical Pollution (optional) | 108 | | 3 | | | | | | |
21. Forest Pedology (optional) 22. Principles of Soil Science (optional) | 72 | | | | | | | | 2 |
B3 Professional Cycle | | | | | | | | | |
B3.B Basic Part | | | | | | | | | |
1. Study of Soil Properties and Processes | 72 | | | 2 | | | | | |
2. Use, Degradation of Topsoil | 72 | | | | 2 | | | | |
3. Basis of Mathematical Modeling of Soil Processes | 72 | | | | | | 2 | | |
4. Erosion and Soil Protection | 108 | | | | | | 3 | | |
5. Agrochemistry | 108 | | | | | | | 3 | |
6. Agriculture | 108 | | | | | | 3 | | |
7. Economics and Legal Basis for Soil Evaluation | 144 | | | | | | | 4 | |
8. Soil Chemistry | 72 | | | 2 | | | | | |
9. Soil Biology | 72 | 2 | | | | | | | |
10. Soil Physics | 180 | | | | | 5 | | | |
11. Soil Reclamation | 108 | | | | | | 3 | | |
12. Soil Geography | 108 | | | | 3 | | | | |
13. Land Management | 108 | | | | | | | | 3 |
14. Life Safety | 72 | | 2 | | | | | | |
B3.V Variable Part | | | | | | | | | |
1. Soil and Biological Diversity | 72 | | | 2 | | | | | |
2. Theory and Practice of Chemical Soil Analysis | 108 | | | | 3 | | | | |
3. Cartography of Soil Workshop | 108 | | | | | 3 | | | |
4. Selected Chapters on Soil Physics | 72 | | | | | | 2 | | |
5. Morphoanalytical Diagnostics of Soil | 72 | | | | | | | 2 | |
6. Land Management and Planning | 108 | | | | | | | 3 | |
7. Principles of Applied Pedology | 144 | | | | | 4 | | | |
8. Land Reclamation | 144 | | | | | | | 4 | |
9. Adaptive Landscape Agriculture | 144 | | | | | | | 4 | |
10.Biogeochemistry | 144 | | | | | 4 | | | |
11.Workshop on Cadastre and Economic Evaluation of Natural Resources | 72 | | | | | | | 2 | |
12.Humus State of Soil | 72 | | | | | | | 2 | |
13. Soil Informatics (optional) 14.Bioindication, Biodiagnostics and Biotesting of Soils (optional) | 108 | | | 3 | | | | | |
15.Ecological Geochemistry (optional) 16.Radiation Contamination of Soils and Lands (optional) | 144 | | | | 4 | | | | |
17. Olericulture and Pomiculture (optional) 18.Landscape Design (optional) | 108 | | | 3 | | | | | |
19.Selected Chapters on Agrochemistry (optional) 20.Agronomic Ore and Fertilizers (optional) | 72 | | | | | | | 2 | |
B4 Physical Education | | | | | 1 | | 1 | | |
B5 Training, Research Work | | | 9 | | 9 | | 9 | | 9 |
B6 Final State Certification | | | | | | | | | 12 |
| Total | 240 |