Horticulture - BS
This degree is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed for production, management and marketing of horticulture and floriculture crops or designing and building residential or small scale commercial landscapes. This degree also offers students with strong interests in science and/or technology opportunities in research related fields including preparation for graduate studies. Career prospects range from producing specialty crops such as local foods for upscale restaurants, controlled environment crop production, managing landscape businesses for growing communities, designing sustainable residential landscapes of the future, working with clientele in botanic and community gardens to enhance urban environments, to growing and marketing fruits and vegetables for healthier lifestyles. Many former students are self-employed, owning their own horticultural crop production, greenhouse, nursery or landscape operation. Others work in upper management of large corporations; facilitate implementation and development of new products and production services; serve in educational institutions, government agencies, or community service organizations; or travel the world developing and marketing future horticultural crops.
First Year | ||
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Fall | Semester Credit Hours | |
BIOL 101 or BIOL 111 | Botany or Introductory Biology I | 4 |
HORT 281 | Horticulture as a Profession. | 1 |
Language, philosophy and culture | 3 | |
Mathematics (MATH or STAT prefix required) | 3 | |
Social and behavioral sciences | 3 | |
Semester Credit Hours | 14 | |
Spring | ||
HORT 201 | Horticultural Science and Practices | 3 |
HORT 202 | Horticultural Science and Practices Laboratory | 1 |
Communication | 3 | |
Creative arts 1 | 3 | |
Government/Political science | 3 | |
Mathematics (MATH or STAT prefix required) | 3 | |
Semester Credit Hours | 16 | |
Second Year | ||
Fall | ||
CHEM 119 | Fundamentals of Chemistry I | 4 |
ENTO 201 | General Entomology | 3 |
RENR 205 | Fundamentals of Ecology | 3 |
American history | 3 | |
Government/Political science | 3 | |
Semester Credit Hours | 16 | |
Spring | ||
CHEM 222 or CHEM 227 | Elements of Organic and Biological Chemistry or Organic Chemistry I | 3 |
HORT 326 | Plant Propagation | 3 |
Select one of the following: | 3 | |
Principles of Heredity | ||
Genetics of Plants | ||
Biomedical Genetics | ||
Plant Breeding | ||
Plant Breeding and Genetics | ||
Directed electives 1,2 | 6 | |
Semester Credit Hours | 15 | |
Third Year | ||
Fall | ||
HORT 315 | Issues in Horticulture 3 | 3 |
SCSC 301 | Soil Science | 4 |
Horticultural Crop Production | 3 | |
Select one of the following: | ||
Fruit and Nut Production | ||
Vegetable Crop Production | ||
Nut Culture | ||
Viticulture and Small Fruit Culture | ||
Concepts of Wine Production | ||
Tropical Horticulture | ||
Nursery Production and Management | ||
Plant Identification/Characterization | 3 | |
Select one of the following: | ||
Trees and Shrubs for Sustainable Built Environments | ||
Plants for Sustainable Landscapes | ||
Directed electives 1,2 | 3 | |
Semester Credit Hours | 16 | |
Spring | ||
MEPS 313 | Introduction to Plant Physiology | 3 |
PLPA 301 | Plant Pathology | 3 |
PLPA 303 | Plant Pathology Laboratory | 1 |
Horticulture Crop Production | 3 | |
Select one of the following: | ||
Landscape Maintenance and Construction | ||
International Floriculture Marketing | ||
Greenhouse Technology & Sustainable Crop Production Systems | ||
Nursery Production and Management | ||
Landscape Estimating, Bidding, and Operations | ||
Directed electives 1,2 | 6 | |
Semester Credit Hours | 16 | |
Fourth Year | ||
Fall | ||
HORT 481 | Seminar 4 | 2 |
Horticulture Elective | 3 | |
American history | 3 | |
Directed electives 1,2 | 6 | |
Semester Credit Hours | 14 | |
Spring | ||
High Impact Learning | 1 | |
Select one of the following: | ||
Field Studies in Horticulture | ||
Internship | ||
Directed Studies | ||
Research | ||
Horticulture Elective | 3 | |
Communication | 3 | |
Directed electives 1,2 | 6 | |
Semester Credit Hours | 13 | |
Total Semester Credit Hours | 120 |
1 | The Graduation requirements include a requirement for 3 hours of International and Cultural Diversity courses and 3 hours of Cultural Discourse courses. A course satisfying a Core category, a college/department requirement, or a free or directed elective can be used to satisfy this requirement. See academic advisor. |
2 | Hours to be selected from among the following AGEC 105, AGEC 216, AGEC 223, AGEC 300-499; AGLS 101; AGSM 125, AGSM 201, AGSM 435, AGSM 300-499; ALEC 425; ALED 339, ALED 340, ALED 341, ALED 344, ALED 426, ALED 440, ALED 441, ALED 494; ANSC 487/NFSC 487; ATMO 201; BESC 201, BESC 204, BESC 300-499; BICH 410, BICH 411; BIOL 112, BIOL 113, BIOL 206, BIOL 213, BIOL 401, BIOL 451; CHEM 300-499; COMM 203, COMM 205, COMM 210; COSC 253, COSC 254; ECON 202, ECON 203; ENGL 320; ENTO 201, ENT0 300-499; ESSM 351/RENR 405; FINC 201, FINC 409; FRSC 420, FRSC 421; GENE 310, GENE 411; ISTM 209; MGMT 105, MGMT 209, MGMT 300-499; MKTG 300-499; NFSC 201, NFSC 300, NFSC 307/ANSC 307, NFSC 324, NFSC 470/ANSC 470, NFSC 485; PHIL 314; PHYS 100-499; RENR 215, RENR 405/ESSM 351, RENR 410: RPTS 201, RPTS 308, RPTS 370, RPTS 371, RPTS 478, RPTS 300-499; SCSC 105, SCSC 205, SCSC 300-499; SPAN 101, SPAN 102, SPAN 201, SPAN 202, UGST 181, or hours to be selected with approval by the student's academic advisor and the associate department head from 100-400-level courses in ACCT, AGCJ, AGEC, AGLS, ALEC, ANTH, ARTS, BESC, COMM, ECON, ENDS, ENTO, EPSY, ESSM, FINC, GENE, GEOG, HLTH, HORT, INST, ISTM, KINE, LAND, MEPS, MGMT, MKTG, NFSC, PSYC, RENR, RPTS, SCSC, SCMT, SOCI, SPAN, SPED, STAT, WFSC. |
3 | This course fulfills a writing intensive course requirement. |
4 | This course fulfills a communications requirement. |
5 | Hours to be selected based on the emphasis area chosen in consultation with the student's academic advisor. |