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Apr 25, 2024
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2023-2024 Catalog
Horticultural Science Certificate
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Award: Certificate
Degree Code: HTSC
Number of Credits: 19
Program Description
The Horticultural Science Certificate provides a foundation in the knowledge, skills, and training required for occupations in the horticulture industry or further studies in the plant sciences. Students will identify plants and their cultural requirements, identify landscape uses for plant materials, soil nutrients and amendments, and gain an understanding of the materials, and methods used in landscape construction.
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Program Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Explain the classification, structure, reproduction, and propagation of plants.
- Evaluate cultural conditions necessary to support plants and distinguish between appropriate plant choices for sun and shade and various landscape uses.
- Identify plants which are native, non-native, and invasive in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
- Describe the composition, fertility, and biology of soil.
- Use tools and technology for evaluating the nutrient content of the soil and identify organic and inorganic supplements for amending soil structure.
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