Environmental Horticulture Operations

 

This specialization focuses mainly on the biological and environmental horticultural sciences, and allows the student various career opportunities such as plant breeding, nutrition, growth regulation and other areas of plant research.  Many employment opportunities are available in agribusiness firms and government research divisions.

 

 

General Core Courses (28 credits)

ENY 3005    Principles of Entomology (3)

HOS 4304    Horticultural Physiology  (3)

BCH 3023    Elementary Organic and Biological Chemistry (3)

HOS 4341   Advanced Horticultural Physiology (3)

SOS 3022   General Soils and lab (4)

PLS 4601    Principles of Weed Science (3)

AEB 3133   Principles of Agribusiness Management (3)      

ORH 4941   Practical Work Experience (minimum of 2 credits)

PLP 3002    Fundamentals of Plant Pathology (4)  

Environmental Horticulture Core Courses (16 credits)

PLS 3223   Plant Propagation  (3)

ORH 3253  Introductory Nursery Management (4)

ORH 3513   Environmental Plant Identification and Use (3)

ORH 4804   Annual and Perennial Gardening (3)

ORH 4236   Landscape and Turfgrass Management (3)

Required Electives (16 credits selected from these courses)

AGR 3302   Genetics (3)

AEE 3073   Intercultural Communications (3)

AEB 3144   Introduction to Agricultural Finance (3)

AEB 3144   Introduction to Agricultural Finance (3)

AEB 3341   Strategic Selling and Technical Interface (3)

AEB 3424   Human Resource Management (4)

AOM 3333  Pesticide Application Techniques (3)

AOM 3734  Irrigation Principles and Practices (3)

HOS 4933  Horticultural Production Managers Seminar (1)

HOS 5516  Advanced Production of Greenhouse and Nursery Crops (3)

MAN 3025  Principles of Management (4)

ORH 4223  Golf and Sports Turf Management (2)

ORH 4242C Arboriculture (4)

ORH 4848C Landscape Plant Establishment (3)

ORH 4264   Greenhouse and Nursery Crop Culture (4)

ORH 4905   Independent Study in Environmental Horticulture (1-4)

PLS 4242   Micropropagation of Horticultural Crops (4)

ORH 3222C Turfgrass Culture (4) F

PMA 3010  Fundamentals of Pest Management (3)

SOS 4115  Fertilizers and Soil Fertility (3)

AOM 3732  Agriculture Water Management (3) S

AOM 4314  Power and Machinery Management (3) F

AOM 3220  Agricultural Construction and Maintenance (3) F

AOM 4642  Environmental Systems for Agricultural Structures (3) S

NEM 3002 (B) Principles of Nematology (3) F (odd), SS (even)

PLP 3103   Control of Plant Diseases (3)

PMA 4570  Field Techniques in IPM (2) F