Horticulture Building

This building houses labs and classrooms for our Horticulture students.

Environmental Horticulture

Horticulture

⭐ Environmental Horticulture

When you major in Environmental Horticulture, you’ll be moved by the earth’s rhythms and seasons much more than the 9-5. Environmental horticulturists create aesthetically pleasing, functional, and environmentally sound outdoor spaces. They design landscapes like golf courses, botanical gardens, and parks, and manage landscape design firms. In this major, you’ll round out your passion for plants with science- and business-based courses, and choose a concentration to focus on.

Nursery & Landscape Management Concentration

Students gain training in landscape plant culture and use plus skills needed to start and manage a nursery, garden center, arboriculture, or landscape management firm.

Landscape Design & Contracting Concentration

The Landscape Design and Contracting concentration prepares students for careers in the design-build profession for residential, commercial, and public properties.

Turf Management Concentration

Turf Management trains students for management opportunities ranging from sod production to the establishment and maintenance of private and public grounds.

⭐ Horticulture

You know there’s something miraculous about plants, growing, and being a part of it all. The Horticulture major nourishes that insight, and helps you transform your passion into a thriving career. You’ll use scientific principles in the growing, marketing and utilizing of fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, and grasses. You’ll gain a strong grounding in botany and chemistry, and come out with skills to surround your life with all things green. This major is also available online for transfer students.

Horticultural Science Concentration

Horticultural Science graduates conduct research to discover new information about plant growth, development, and environmental response.

Horticultural Business Management Concentration

The curriculum consists of a core of business, computer, and economics courses. In horticulture, students choose a special emphasis, or take an array of courses that may lead to greater job opportunities.

Horticultural Food Crops Concentration

Specific courses include fruit and vegetable production, irrigation practices, soil fertility, propagation, breeding, and related plant pest management courses. Students must choose either the Production or Seed Science option.

Controlled Environment Horticulture Concentration

Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) is a technology-based approach to crop production that focuses on optimizing an environment within a protected structure to facilitate desired plant growth and development. In this concentration, students will study and gain hands-on experience with the management of controlled environment systems for the production and improvement of both floriculture and food crops. Students will also engage with advanced production technologies in areas such as hydroponics and lighting. Additional course topics include propagation, environmental control, physiology, and pest management for horticultural crops grown in controlled environments. Students are required to participate in greenhouse practicums and an internship in their junior and/or senior years. A number of career opportunities exist for students in this concentration including controlled environment production, all phases of retail and wholesale floral business, controlled environment supply sales, controlled environment construction and environmental control, and plant research.