Horticulture
Text and Materials: Various textbooks, which are used in the classroom, handouts, hands-on experiences, greenhouse work, and outdoor landscaping/campus flowerbeds.
Class is a two-hour daily class.
Horticulture I
Specific Objectives
- Orientation/Safety procedures
- SOEP (Supervised Occupational Experience Program)
- Leadership Training
- Soil and Growing Media
- Propagation of Seeds, Cuttings, and Plants
- Greenhouse and Nursery plant Cultivation
- Pest Control
- Job Opportunities and Requirements
Horticulture II
Horticulture II is designed as a one-year, double-period, occupational preparation course. Units of instruction include growing greenhouse crops; producing and maintaining nursery crops; establishing, maintaining, and designing landscape plantings; establishing and maintaining turf grass; and operation and operation a garden center. Leadership skills continue to be developed. This class can also be taken as a dual credit through MECC.
Specific Objectives
- SOEP (Supervised Occupational Experience Program)
- Propagation of Seeds, Cuttings, and Plants
- Greenhouse and Nursery plant Cultivation
- Floral Arrangements
- Dressed Plants
- Job Opportunities and Organization
- Landscape and Turf Establishment
- Facility Construction and Maintenance
Horticulture III
Horticulture III is a one-year, advanced, occupational preparation course. Major learning areas include planning and managing horticulture facilities and crops; managing horticultural businesses; and merchandising, advertising, displaying, and selling horticultural products and services. Leadership development is emphasized. This class can also be taken as dual credit through MECC.
Specific Objectives
- SOEP (Supervised Occupational Experience Program)
- Leadership Training
- Environmental Control Systems and Devices
- Merchandise Display and Maintenance
- Landscape and Turf Establishment
- Turf, Greens, and Landscape Maintenance