Students: Undergraduate Programs: Majors and Minors

Water and Soil Resources
Study your environment - and help make our water and soil a little safer.

Water and Soil Resources is a major for you if you're concerned about the quality of the environment and the effects of agricultural, urban and industrial activities upon our natural resources, and want to study it. As a student majoring in Water and Soil Resources, you'll focus on the conservation, rehabilitation and inventory of water and soil through biological, ecological, chemical and physical sciences. This major will prepare you for a variety of environmental and conservation careers.

Sound like your kind of environmental degree? Check out more info below or go ahead and apply now to study Water and Soil Resources.

What Can I Study?

Visit the course plan below for a typical course sequence for a Water and Soil Resources major. You will determine the right classes for your interests with the help of your advisor.

• Water and Soil Resources (4-Year Course Plan) (pdf)

The UGA Bulletin has more information about required classes and available electives for the water and soil resources major.

Additional Opportunities

Pre-professional opportunities:
See a list of our Pre-professional opportunities.

Study Abroad:
USVI—St. Croix: Agroforestry in the Caribbean, Thailand: Cultural, Social, and Environmental Sustainability, France: French and European Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Internships:
Congressional Agricultural Fellowship, Cooperative Extension Internship, Emerging Scholars Internship, Georgia Farm Bureau Legislative Internship, Rural Caucus Legislative Internship, Winegrowers of Georgia Internship

Clubs:
Ag Hill Council, AGHON (Honorary), Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity, Alpha Zeta (Honorary), CAES Ambassadors (Honorary), Collegiate 4-H, Collegiate FFA, Collegiate FFA (Tifton campus), Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS), Pre-Vet Club, Sigma Alpha Sorority, Student Government Association

High School Programs:
Georgia Plant Science Scholars Program, Weekend in the Classic City, Young Scholars Internship Program