CAT resurrects BS Forestry course

The College of Agriculture and Technology reopens Bachelor of Science in Forestry this semester.

Dr. Ana Liza C. Lopez, Dean of CAT said that they offered the course back since there is big demand for forestry graduates these days. Also, she feared that the program has been closed for quite a while.

Dr. Lopez clarified that the program was not closed by CHED. The reason why the college ceased to offer the course is because it did not attract enrollees since the program did not produce passers in the forestry board exam.

Students in the forestry program will be immersed in the fields of forest preservation, wild life, global warming, and relationships of plants and other resources.

However, both Dr. Lopez and Prof. Avelino Lozada, one of the faculty members, express concern that some of the enrollees in the program did not have a choice since the program was made the default choice of those affected by the K to 12 transition.

Amid this, Roselyn Patoc, one of the enrollees, sees the nationwide demand of the course as her motivating factor in choosing the program.