This degree is structured to provide students with hands-on training, knowledge, and skills needed for producing, improving, managing, and marketing fruit, nut, vegetable, landscape, floral, and other ornamental crops or designing, building, and maintaining residential or small-scale commercial landscapes. This degree also prepares students for undertaking graduate studies so that they can pursue science, technology, research, and development-focused careers in life sciences. Career prospects range from managing the production of horticultural crops in fields and in controlled environments, 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, nuts, and vegetables, including those for healthier lifestyles. Former students have become leaders in the horticulture industry or entrepreneurs owning their horticultural crop production, greenhouse, nursery, or landscape operations. Several others work in upper management of large corporations, facilitate the implementation and development of new horticultural products and production services, serve in educational institutions, government agencies, or community service organizations, or travel the world developing, improving, and marketing future horticultural crops.

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For all HORT majors and minors, a C or better is required in HORT 201.

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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.

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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 370, ALEC 371, ALEC 425, ALEC 478; ALED 339, ALED 340, ALED 341, ALED 344, ALED 426, ALED 440, ALED 441, ALED 494; ANSC 307, ANSC 487/FSTC 487; ATMO 201; BESC 201, BESC 204, BESC 300-499; BICH 410, BICH 411; BIOL 112, BIOL 113, BIOL 206, BIOL 213, BIOL 349, BIOL 401; CHEM 300-499; COMM 203, COMM 205, COMM 210; COSC 253, COSC 354; ECCB 205, ECCB 215, ECCB 351, ECCB 408; ECON 202, ECON 203; ENGL 320; ENTO 201, ENT0 300-499; FINC 409; FSTC 201, FSTC 324, FSTC 470/ANSC 470, FSTC 485; GENE 310, GENE 411/SCSC 411; HMGT 201, HMGT 300-499; ISTM 209; MGMT 209, MGMT 300-499; MKTG 300-499; NUTR 300/FSTC 300, NUTR 485; PHIL 314; PHYS 100-499; RWFM 322, RWFM 411; 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, ECCB, ECON, ENDS, ENTO, EPSY, FINC, FSTC, GENE, GEOG, HLTH, HMGT, HORT, INST, ISTM, KINE, LAND, MEPS, MGMT, MKTG, NUTR, PBSI, RWFM, SCSC, SCMT, SOCI, SPAN, SPED, STAT.

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This course fulfills a writing intensive course requirement.

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This course fulfills a communications requirement.

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Hours to be selected based on the emphasis area chosen in consultation with the student's academic advisor.