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Hi all,
Thank you to all those that joined in today’s discussion regarding the graduate student curriculum. It was a great start in providing valuable feedback for the curriculum committee.
As per the discussion, we will be meeting as graduate students to discuss individual courses. The gathered responses will be summarized and made available to the curriculum committee and also passed onto the specific course instructors.
This dialogue on graduate courses available in Plant Science will take place on:
Friday, Oct 31 at 12:00 in Rm 310
PLNT7340 Advanced Weed Science (Fall)
PLNT7612 Advanced Plant Physiology (Winter)
PLNT7660 Advanced Crop Production (Fall)
PLNT7480 Epidemiology of Plant Disease (Winter)
PLNT7250 Plant Science Seminar (Fall/Winter)
and
Friday, November 7 at 12:00 in Rm 218
PLNT7162 Plant Genomics (Winter)
PLNT7170 Advanced Plant Breeding (Fall)
PLNT7670 Quantitative Genetics and Plant Breeding (Winter)
PLNT7690 Bioinformatics (Fall)
PLNT7420 Advanced Plant Science Seminar (Fall/Winter)
The course syllabus’ are available online at:
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/afs/dept/plant_science/programs/1043.html
Please take a look at the syllabus’ and consider:
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the objectives of the course
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the content to be covered
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the format of the course in terms of lectures, discussion, assignments, presentations, etc.
If you are unable to attend these conversations but would like to have input, please write down your comments and email them to me prior to
November 15.
I look forward to this productive discussion!
Lori Reimer
PSGSA President 2014-2015