Courses

In general, courses are in Portuguese. Just SOL 735 is in English. The PPGSNP is working to expand the offer of courses in English, and for 2021 it is planned to offer the “Soil Chemistry and Fertility” course. Other courses are being planned for 2022.

Please take this into account when planning your application.

Curriculum

– for more details, please see DPS courses list (in Portuguese)
– other courses: UFV courses list  (in Portuguese)

DPS course list

SOL 600 – Methods of Soil and Plant Analysis

SOL 613 – Earth System: Dynamics and Process

SOL 615 – Soil Mineralogy

SOL 626 – Soil Genesis and Classification

SOL 640 – Soil Physics

SOL 641 – Soil Physics Applied to Transfer Process

SOL 645 – Forest Soils

SOL 646 – Land Reclamation

SOL 647 – Research Methodology on Agroecology – Focus on Soils

SOL 648 – Soil Use in Tropics

SOL 650 – Soil Chemistry

SOL 655 – Environmental Geochemistry

SOL 660 – Soil Organic Matter

SOL 670 – Soil Fertility

SOL 681 – Pedometrics

SOL 730 – Pedogeomorphology

SOL 735 – Geosystems, Landscapes, and land uses in Brazil and West Africa: convergences and scenarios (*)

SOL 771 – Soil Fertility Assessment

SOL 790 – Special Topics in Soil Science I

SOL 791 – Special Topics in Soil Science II

SOL 792 – Special Topics in Soil Science III

SOL 794 – Special Issues I

SOL 795 – Special Issues II

SOL 796 – Special Issues III

SOL 797 – Seminar

SOL 799 – Research

(*) in English