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An asterisk (*) following the four-digit number indicates the course is approved for graduate credit.
Graduate College
Horticulture (HORT)
HORT 1003
Home Horticulture
Offered by correspondence only. An introduction to horticultural practices for the home gardener. Planning and care of home grounds, home orchards and vegetable gardens; selection, use and care of indoor plants. Non-majors only. Credit will not substitute for required courses.
HORT 1013
(L,N)Principles of Horticultural Science
Lab 2. Basic physical and physiological processes responsible for plant dormancy, growth, flowering, fruiting, and senescence with respect to the science and art of production, cultivation, utilization, and/or storage of horticultural plants. Current research associated with various horticultural commodity groups.
HORT 2010
Internship in Horticulture
1-6 credits, max 6. Prerequisite(s): 24 credit hours and consent of adviser. Supervised work experience with approved public and private employers in horticulture and related fields. Credit will not substitute for required courses. Graded on a pass-fail basis.
HORT 2513
Herbaceous Plant Materials
Lab 2. Identification, cultural requirements, and use of ornamental garden and indoor herbaceous plants.
HORT 2613
Woody Plant Materials
Lab 2. Identification, cultural requirements, and use of ornamental woody plants including deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs and vines.
HORT 2652
Basic Floral Design
Lab 2. Fundamentals of floral arrangement and design for the home and the retail shop; basic skills useful to flower shop employment and operation.
HORT 3013
Arboriculture
Lab 2. Prerequisite(s): 2613 or NREM 2134 and SOIL 2124. Theory and practice of selecting, planting and maintaining trees, shrubs and vines in the landscape.
HORT 3084
Plant Propagation
Lab 2. Prerequisite(s): 1013 or PLNT 1213, BIOL 1404 and SOIL 2124. Principles and practices involved in propagation of plants. Anatomical, morphological and physiological aspects of sexual and asexual methods of regeneration and their importance.
HORT 3113
Greenhouse Management
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 1013, BIOL 1404, MATH 1483 or 1513 or above. Commercial greenhouse operation with emphasis on floricultural plant production aspects; environment, growing media, fertilizers and application methods, watering, pest and disease control, chemical growth regulators, production costs.
HORT 3153
Turf Management
Prerequisite(s): 1013, SOIL 2124 and 2 hours plant science. Selection, establishment and maintenance of grass species and other plant materials for special use areas.
HORT 3213
Fruit and Nut Production
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1403. Commercial production of fruits and nuts, with emphasis on pecan, apple, peach, strawberry, blackberry and blueberry. A two-day field trip is required.
HORT 3253
Personnel and Financial Management for Horticulture
Prerequisite(s): 1013 or LA 1013 and one upper division HORT or LA course. Preparing and executing an operational budget in a horticultural service industry and methods for maintaining an effective work force.
HORT 3433*
Commercial Vegetable Production
Prerequisite(s): 1013, SOIL 2124 and BIOL 1404. Commercial production and marketing of vegetable crops.
HORT 3513
Landscape Irrigation
Lab 2. Prerequisite(s): 1013 or LA 1013. Basics of landscape irrigation with an emphasis on residential irrigation design, maintenance and installation.
HORT 3612
Bidding and Estimating
Prerequisite(s): 1013 or LA 1013 or NREM 1114 or PLNT 1213. Bid preparation and job cost estimation for landscape related projects including quantity take-offs, plant material and hardscape estimates, budgeting and pricing.
HORT 4313*
Commercial Flower Production and Marketing
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 3113. Commercial production of cut flower, pot plant and bedding plant crops. Application of plant physiological principles to crop culture, crop production costs and marketing.
HORT 4453*
Turfgrass Physiology and Ecology
Prerequisite(s): 3153, BOT 1404. A study of the relationship between turf physiology and modern turf management practices. Concepts of stand ecology with emphasis on species dominance in stressful environments.
HORT 4543*
Nursery Production
Lab 2. Prerequisite(s): 2613 and SOIL 2124. Commercial production of field- and container-grown woody ornamental crops.
HORT 4713*
Public Garden Management
Lab 4. Prerequisite(s): 1013. Issues and methods in public garden management, including database management of collections, conservation of native species, grant writing, volunteer coordination, computerized mapping systems, master planning, and other topics pertaining to a career in public horticulture. Field trips required.
HORT 4773
Applied Landscape Planning
Lab 3. Prerequisite(s): 2313 or 2413. Concepts of landscape contracting, design and planning. Preparation of plans, and cost estimates with an emphasis on residential landscapes and use of plant materials. No credit for students in the landscape architecture or landscape contracting programs.
HORT 4901*
Horticulture in Controlled Environments Laboratory
Lab 2. Prerequisite(s): 4903 or concurrent enrollment. Hands-on experiences and virtual field trips designed to reinforce principles discussed in HORT 4903, and to develop skill sets important to successful implementation of horticultural practices in controlled environments. Offered through web-based instruction.
HORT 4903*
Horticulture in Controlled Environments
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1215 and HORT 3113.Designing, constructing, monitoring, and manipulating controlled environments for efficient horticultural production. Offered through web-based instruction.
HORT 4933
Principles of Sustainable and Organic Horticulture
Prerequisite(s): 1013. Principles and practices of sustainable, organic, and alternative horticultural management systems. Offered through web-based instruction.
HORT 4943*
International Horticulture
Prerequisite(s): 1013. Overview of the horticulture industry worldwide. Export, marketing, and international trade issues in a global horticulture context. Individual country analyses of specific fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops. Offered through web-based instruction.
HORT 4953*
Plant Growth and Development
Prerequisite(s): 1013 and BOT 1404. Plant embryogenesis and organogenesis; growth and development of shoots and reproductive structures; plant developmental processes including shoot expansion and dormancy as influenced by temperature, light, and other environmental factors. Offered through web-based instruction.
HORT 4973*
Sustainable Landscape Management
Prerequisite(s): 1013 or LA 1013. The ecological principles and landscape resources supporting decision-making for sustainable landscape management. Retrofits of existing development for enhanced sustainability, including equipment selection, stormwater management, use of successional landscapes, permaculture, and organic methods. Offered through web-based instruction.
HORT 4990*
Horticultural Problems
1-6 credits, max 6. Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Problems related to pomology, olericulture, nursery production, landscape design, or the culture, sales and arrangement of flowers.
HORT 5000*
Research and Thesis
1-6 credits, max 6. Research on thesis problems required of master's degree candidates.
HORT 5020*
Graduate Seminar
1-2 credits. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. Proposal and results seminars for graduate programs.
HORT 5110*
Advanced Horticultural Problems
1-12 credits, max 20. Selected research problems in horticulture, floriculture, landscape design; nursery production, olericulture and pomology.
HORT 5133*
Temperature Stress Physiology
Prerequisite(s): BIOC 3653, BOT 3463 or consent of instructor. Effects of heat, chilling and freezing stress on plants. Responses to temperature extremes at the molecular to whole plant levels with emphasis on mechanisms of injury and resistance.
HORT 5233*
Experimental Horticulture
Methods of conducting research with horticultural crops, including organization and plans, field plot techniques and analysis of data.
HORT 5412*
Mineral Nutrition in Horticultural Crops
Prerequisite(s): BOT 3463, SOIL 4234. Fertilizer use and plant response in horticultural crops.
HORT 5422*
Flowering and Fruiting in Horticultural Crops
Prerequisite(s): BOT 3463. Environmental, chemical and cultural factors affecting the flowering and fruiting of horticultural crops.
HORT 5433*
Postharvest Physiology
Prerequisite(s): BOT 3463 and 3460. Physiological causes for post-harvest changes in horticultural crops (ripening and senescence) and the basis for certain postharvest treatments (precooling at harvest, controlled atmosphere storage, refrigeration, and packaging techniques). Commodity-specific postharvest phenomena.
HORT 5443*
Basic Laboratory Experimentation
Lab 3. Principles and theory of safe laboratory practice and experimentation. Techniques for developing and optimizing plant sample acquisition, extraction and analysis protocols. Theory of operation and maintenance of common laboratory instrumentation (pH measurement, solid and liquid analytical measurement, temperature measurement, spectrophotometry, HPLC, GC). Laboratory provides hands-on experience for integrated protocol development and instrument use.
HORT 6000*
Research and Thesis
1-12 credits, max 20 for crop science; max 24 for environmental science; max 30 for plant science. Research on thesis problems required of candidates for the PhD in crop science.
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