The University of California, Davis, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (commonly referred to by students as the "College of Ag" or "Ag-and-E") was established in 1922 and is one of nine college

College

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s on the campus of the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

. It offers undergraduate degrees in forty different majors and graduate degrees in thirty (combined count for M.S.

Master of Science

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 and Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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). Since 1999 the College has been overseen by Dean Neal van Alfen.

Divisions

The College is organized into three divisions, which are then further sub-divided into twenty-two departments, as follows:

Agricultural Sciences Division

• Animal Science
  Animal science
  Animal Science is described as "studying the biology of animals that are under the control of mankind". Historically, the animals studied were farm animals, including livestock and horses, but courses available now look at a far broader area to include companion animals, for example dogs, cats and...
  
  
• Biological
  Biological engineering
  Biological engineering, biotechnological engineering or bioengineering is the application of concepts and methods of biology to solve problems in life sciences, using engineering's own analytical and synthetic methodologies and also its traditional...
  
   and Agricultural engineering
  Agricultural engineering
  Agricultural engineering is the engineering discipline that applies engineering science and technology to agricultural production and processing...
  
  
• Entomology
  Entomology
  Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...
  
  
• Nematology
  Nematology
  Nematology is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of nematodes, or roundworms. Although nematological investigation dates back to the days of Aristotle or even earlier, nematology as an independent discipline has its recognizable beginnings in the mid to late 19th century.- History...
  
  
• Plant pathology
• Plant sciences
• Agronomy
  Agronomy
  Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, feed, fiber, and reclamation. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology,...
  
   and Range science
  Rangeland
  Rangelands are vast natural landscapes in the form of grasslands, shrublands, woodlands, wetlands, and deserts. Types of rangelands include tallgrass and shortgrass prairies, desert grasslands and shrublands, woodlands, savannas, chaparrals, steppes, and tundras...
  
  
• Environmental horticulture
  Horticulture
  Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic...
  
  
• Pomology
  Pomology
  Pomology is a branch of botany that studies and cultivates pome fruit, particularly from the genera Malus, Prunus and Pyrus belonging to the Rosaceae. The term is sometimes applied more broadly, to the cultivation of any type of fruit...
  
  
• Vegetable crops
  Vegetable
  The noun vegetable usually means an edible plant or part of a plant other than a sweet fruit or seed. This typically means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant....
  
  
• Viticulture
  Viticulture
  Viticulture is the science, production and study of grapes which deals with the series of events that occur in the vineyard. When the grapes are used for winemaking, it is also known as viniculture...
  
   and Enology

Environmental Sciences Division

• Environmental science
  Environmental science
  Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...
  
   and Policy
• Environmental toxicology
  Environmental toxicology
  Environmental toxicology, also known as entox, is a multidisciplinary field of science concerned with the study of the harmful effects of various chemical, biological and physical agents on individual living organisms...
  
  
• Founded in 1968, this department offered the first undergraduate degree in environmental toxicology at any university.
• Landscape Architecture
  Landscape architecture
  Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions...
  
  
• Land, Air and Water Resources
• Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
• This department was started in the early 1970s under the name Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. It was given its current name in the mid-1980s as conservation was becoming an increasingly popular societal issue. Department faculty, cooperative extension
  Cooperative extension service
  The Cooperative Extension Service, also known as the Extension Service of the USDA, is a non-formal educational program implemented in the United States designed to help people use research-based knowledge to improve their lives. The service is provided by the state's designated land-grant...
  
   specialists, postdoctoral researcher
  Postdoctoral researcher
  Postdoctoral research is scholarly research conducted by a person who has recently completed doctoral studies, normally within the previous five years. It is intended to further deepen expertise in a specialist subject, including acquiring novel skills and methods...
  
  s, and graduate students training and studying in fields including ecology
  Ecology
  Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
  
  , wildlife management
  Wildlife management
  Wildlife management attempts to balance the needs of wildlife with the needs of people using the best available science. Wildlife management can include game keeping, wildlife conservation and pest control...
  
  , conservation biology
  Conservation biology
  Conservation biology is the scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction...
  
  , animal behavior, evolution, and population biology
  Population biology
  Population biology is a study of populations of organisms, especially the regulation of population size, life history traits such as clutch size, and extinction...
  
  . Undergraduates may choose the wildlife, fish, and conservation biology major and take a Bachelor of Science.

Human Sciences Division

• Managerial Economics
  Managerial economics
  Managerial economics as defined by Edwin Mansfield is "concerned with application of economic concepts and economic analysis to the problems of formulating rational managerial decision." It is sometimes referred to as business economics and is a branch of economics that applies microeconomic...
  
   (formally Agricultural and Resource Economics)
• Environmental Design
  Environmental design
  Environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products...
  
  
• Food Science
  Food science
  Food science is a study concerned with all technical aspects of foods, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption, an ideology commonly referred to as "from field to fork"...
  
   and Technology
• Human
  Human development (humanity)
  Human development in the scope of humanity, specifically international development, is an international and economic development paradigm that is about much more than the rise or fall of national incomes. People are the real wealth of nations...
  
   and Community Development
  Community development
  Community development is a broad term applied to the practices and academic disciplines of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of local communities....
  
  
• Nutrition
  Nutrition
  Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....
  
  
• Textiles and Clothing
  Clothing
  Clothing refers to any covering for the human body that is worn. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic and is a feature of nearly all human societies...
  
  

External links

• College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Homepage
• College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences on the Davis Wiki