Bachelor degrees in Horticultural Science: A program that focuses on the scientific principles related to the cultivation of garden and ornamental plants, including fruits, vegetables, flowers, and landscape and nursery crops. Includes instruction in specific types of plants, such as citrus; breeding horticultural varieties; physiology of horticultural species; and the scientific management of horticultural plant development and production through the life cycle.
The Plant Science-Horticulture Major is designed to provide a broad orientation to all aspects of Horticulture: Floriculture, Ornamental Horticulture, Vegetable Crops, Fruit Crops, and Landscaping. Horticulture majors may qualify for positions in commercial nurseries or greenhouses, commercial fruit or vegetable producers, landscape services, public parks, private estates, golf courses, federal and state agencies, and seed production industries. Many...
Agricultural programs are designed to prepare students for employment in agricultural
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Urban Horticulture emphasizes the relationship of plants and people in city environments. Because of our unique southwestern desert location, our goal is to teach urban horticulture students at ASU's Polytechnic campus how to practice principles and develop skills that help to create aesthetically-pleasing urban environments coupled to an ethos of environmental conservation and stewardship. Students can gain expertise in a diverse array of topics...
Our aim at Brigham Young University–Idaho Horticulture Department is to nurture understanding of both the art and science of Horticulture. Students learn experientially in the classroom, laboratory, greenhouse, and ten-acre Thomas E. Ricks demonstration garden as they pursue a Bachelors Degree. Using the medium of plants, students develop habits of hard work, enlightened minds, and healthy living that assist in gainful employment opportunities.
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Our aim at Brigham Young University–Idaho Horticulture Department is to nurture understanding of both the art and science of Horticulture. Students learn experientially in the classroom, laboratory, greenhouse, and ten-acre Thomas E. Ricks demonstration garden as they pursue a Bachelors Degree. Using the medium of plants, students develop habits of hard work, enlightened minds, and healthy living that assist in gainful employment opportunities.
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This option prepares students to manage agricultural enterprises for the production of plant crops for human and animal consumption, for the protection of these crops and resources against pests (insects, diseases, weeds, vertebrates), and for the stewardship of their natural resources (soil, water, air, and biota). The option emphasizes sustainable land use and crop production practices. Career opportunities may be found in the agricultural production...
Horticulture is the art, science, and business of food crops, ornamental plants, and turf grasses and their production, utilization, and maintenance. A strong foundation in the basic sciences and humanities is built on courses in mathematics, chemistry, botany, physics, computer science, communications, economics, and humanities.
Horticulture as a science depends on disciplines such as plant pathology, plant physiology, entomology, forestry, agronomy,...
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