SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS IN AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Covers how to develop a publishable systematic review for dissertations and professional work. Understand the distinguishing features of systematic review typologies and apply this understanding to selecting and conducting systematic reviews applicable to a variety of research questions in agricultural sciences.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Consent of instructor Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the fundamentals of systematic review procedures and identify systematic review typologies requirements, strategies for repeatability/reproducibility, and publication development. Audience: Graduate 2. Use guides (e.g. PICO) and tools (e.g. Rayyan) with an emphasis on developing your own open access toolkit. Audience: Graduate 3. Assess the need and question the development of proposed systematic review. Audience: Graduate 4. Develop and register a systematic review protocol. Audience: Graduate 5. Search and evaluate peer-reviewed and grey literature. Audience: Graduate 6. Conduct eligibility screening, data extraction and coding using inclusion-exclusion criteria, tools for collaborative and rapid review, extraction templates and best practices, combining raw and summary data. Audience: Graduate 7. Synthesize results of a systematic review. Audience: Graduate 8. Characterize bias including types of bias and resulting study limitations. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the fundamentals of systematic review procedures and identify systematic review typologies requirements, strategies for repeatability/reproducibility, and publication development. Audience: Graduate 2. Use guides (e.g. PICO) and tools (e.g. Rayyan) with an emphasis on developing your own open access toolkit. Audience: Graduate 3. Assess the need and question the development of proposed systematic review. Audience: Graduate 4. Develop and register a systematic review protocol. Audience: Graduate 5. Search and evaluate peer-reviewed and grey literature. Audience: Graduate 6. Conduct eligibility screening, data extraction and coding using inclusion-exclusion criteria, tools for collaborative and rapid review, extraction templates and best practices, combining raw and summary data. Audience: Graduate 7. Synthesize results of a systematic review. Audience: Graduate 8. Characterize bias including types of bias and resulting study limitations. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027