JJC: Horticulture Sciences - Landscape Contracting Degree Option

Horticultural Sciences

Landscape Contracting Option
Degree Program

For more information:
Mark Kuster
Landscape Design Instructor
(815) 280 -2400
Fax: (815) 280-6650
Email: mkuster@jjc.edu

There is an A.A.S. degree (AG650) offered in this program. Select a course below to find out more.

AG650
HORTICULTURE
Landscape Contracting Option
ASSOCIATE IN APPLIED SCIENCE
Career Program

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

			Hours
General education requirements (Must include the following):			15
	ENG 101	Rhetoric
	SPCH 101	Principles of Speech
	and nine hours outside of the Ag/HORT Department
Major Core Requirements			48
	ACCY 100	Introduction to Accounting
	AGRI 103	Agriculture Economics
	AGRI 115	Intro to Microcomputer Skills in Agriculture
	AGRI 126	Introductory Soils
	HORT 150	Intro to Agricultural Mechanization
	HORT 160	Principles of Horticultural Plants
	HORT 250	Landscape Plans
	HORT 251	Landscape Layout and Design
	HORT 253	Landscape Construction
	HORT 254	Summer Supervised Occupational Experience
	HORT 255	Supervised Occupational Experience Program
	HORT 260	Turf Management I
Major Core Electives			5
	(Select with approval of adviser from the list below):
	AGRI 129	Agricultural Computations
	HORT 100	Introduction to Horticulture
	HORT 161	Herbaceous Plants I
	HORT 162	Woody Ornaments
	HORT 163	Evergreens, Vines and Groundcovers
	HORT 164	Herbaceous Plants II
	HORT 185	Arboriculture
	HORT 223	Pathology
	HORT 243	Entomology
	SPAN 120	Basic Occupational Spanish
	SPAN 121	Spanish for Landscaping Personnel
Total			68

A suggested guide for the student planning employment in landscape contracting after two years of college:
First Year
First Semester		Second Semester
Math/Science	3	AGRI 115	3
ENG 101	3	AGRI 103	3
HORT 160	4	HORT 150	3
SPAN 120/ SPAN 121	3	SPCH 101	3
ACCY 100	3	Social Science	3
Total:	16	Total:	15
Summer Session
HORT 254	6
Second Year
First Semester		Second Semester
HORT 243	3	HORT 251	3
HORT 250	4	HORT 255	9
Elective*	3	HORT 253	3
Elective*	3
HORT 260	3
Total:	16	Total:	15
*Selected with approval of adviser

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