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Course Objectives

Students will:

1) Develop knowledge base and critical thinking skills on issues related to tropical agriculture, plant diseases and the environment.

2) Identify trade issues that are important in regulating plant diseases that are imported from the tropics.

3) Write a 5-page paper on an important tropical plant disease suitable for web publishing.

4) Identify and develop appropriate skills for conducting research in the tropics

5)  Learn conversational travel Spanish

Taught by Dr. Jean B. Ristaino, Professor of Plant Pathology
Former AAAS Environmental Science Fellow, 1996 
Contact Dr. Ristaino at (919)515-3257 
Or write to Jean_Ristaino@ncsu.edu.
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