This option prepares students for careers in management of golf courses, athletic fields, sod farms, parks, cemeteries, public institutions and businesses such as landscape contractors and lawn care specialists. Courses dealing with ornamental horticulture, management, plant protection, business, landscape architecture and equipment are desirable electives in the training of turf managers.
Freshman Year
|
| First Semester |
(Th-Pr) |
Credit Hours |
| AGLS 101 Modern Agricultural Systems |
(1-0) |
1 |
| AGRO 101 Intro. to Soil and Crop Sciences |
(1-0) |
1 |
| AGRO 105 World Food and Fiber Crops 1 |
(2-2) |
3 |
| BOTN 101 Botany |
(3-2) |
4 |
| HIST 105 History of U.S. 2 |
(3-0) |
3 |
| MATH 141 Business Math. I |
|
|
| or |
|
|
| MATH 166 Finite Math |
(3-0) |
3 |
| * KINE 198 Health and Fitness Activity |
(0-2) |
1 |
|
|
16 |
| Second Semester |
|
|
| ENGL 104 Composition and Rhetoric |
3-0 |
3 |
| CHEM 101 Fund. of Chemistry I |
3-3 |
4 |
| POLS 206 American Natl. Govt. |
3-0 |
3 |
| Humanities elective 3 |
|
3 |
| Social and behavioral sciences elective 3 |
|
3 |
| * KINE 199 Required Physical Activity |
(0-2) |
1 |
|
|
17 |
Sophomore Year
|
| First Semester |
(Th-Pr) |
Credit Hours |
| AGLS 201 Computer Application in Ag. |
(2-2) |
3 |
| ENTO 201 General Entomology |
(2-2) |
3 |
| Any calculus or PHIL 240, 341 or 342 |
|
3-4 |
| Visual and performing arts elective 3 |
|
3 |
| Elective |
|
4 |
|
|
16-17 |
| Second Semester |
|
|
| AGRO 301 Soil Science |
(3-2) |
4 |
| HIST 106 History of U.S. 2 |
3-3 |
4 |
| POLS 206 American Natl. Govt. |
(3-0) |
3 |
| Organic chemistry |
|
3 |
| Physics elective |
|
3 |
| Elective |
|
3 |
|
|
16 |
Junior Year
|
| First Semester |
(Th-Pr) |
Credit Hours |
| AGRO 428 Turfgrass Culture |
(2-2) |
3 |
| BOTN 301 Taxonomy of Flowering Plants |
(3-3) |
4 |
| HORT 206 Woody Ornamentals |
(2-2) |
3 |
| Microbiology elective 3 |
|
3 |
| Elective |
|
3 |
|
|
16 |
| Second Semester |
|
|
| AGRO 430 Turfgrass Maintenance |
(3-2) |
4 |
| GENE 301 Genetics |
(3-3) |
4 |
| MEPS 313 Plant Physiology |
(3-0) |
3 |
| POLS 207 State and Local Govt. |
(3-0) |
3 |
| Nutrition elective |
|
3 |
|
|
17 |
Senior Year
|
| First Semester |
(Th-Pr) |
Credit Hours |
| AGRO 422 Soil Fertility and Fertilizers |
(3-0) |
3 |
| AGRO 432 Soil Chem. and Fertility Lab |
(0-3) |
1 |
| ENGL 301 Technical Writing |
(3-0) |
3 |
| MGMT 470 Formation and Mgmt. of Small Business |
(3-0) |
3 |
| PLPA 301 Plant Pathology |
(3-0) |
3 |
| PLPA 303 Plant Pathology Lab |
(0-2) |
1 |
| Elective 5 |
|
3 |
|
|
17 |
| Second Semester |
|
|
| AGRO 450 Chemical Weed Control l |
(3-0) |
3 |
| AGRO 452 Chemical Weed Control Lab |
(0-2) |
1 |
| AGRO 481 Seminar |
(1-0) |
1 |
| COMM 203 Public Speaking |
(3-0) |
3 |
| Electives 5 |
|
9-10 |
|
|
17-18 |