Land Rehabilitation and Restoration Ecology Minor

Offered at: San Luis Obispo Campus

Students completing the minor gain skills in recognizing, assessing, and treating disturbed lands for numerous purposes, including erosion and sediment control, water quality improvement, habitat restoration, biodiversity, and aesthetic enhancement. They develop proficiency in plant identification and selection, soil properties and processes, and ecological principles, and also learn to set criteria and judge the feasibility, prudence, efficiency, and effectiveness of restoration and rehabilitation efforts.

Program Learning Objectives

1. Integrate and apply technical knowledge across disciplines of plant science, soil science, and ecology to restore natural systems.
2. Evaluate principles, practices, and techniques for designing, implementing, and evaluating land restoration and rehabilitation.
3. Apply systems thinking skills to address environmental degradation through land restoration and rehabilitation.
4. Communicate scientific, technical, and practical knowledge of land restoration and rehabilitation.

Minor Requirements and Curriculum

• At least half of the units must be from upper-division courses (3000-4000 level).
• At least half of the units must be taken at Cal Poly (in residence).
• No more than one-third of the units will be taken with credit-no credit grading (CR/NC), not counting courses with mandatory CR/NC. Departments may further limit CR/NC grading if desired.
• A minimum 2.0 GPA is required in all units counted for completion of the minor.