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

There is an  A.A.S degree program (AG600), a Certificate of Achievement program, and a Certificate of Completion program. See details below.

The Associate in Applied Science (Landscape Management Option) requires a total of 72 hours in order to graduate. Students must complete 15 hours of General Education Requirements (see adviser), 48 hours of required coursework in landscape management and nine hours of additional horticulture coursework from a selected list of electives (which must be approved by an adviser).


 

AG600
HORTICULTURE
Landscape Management Option

ASSOCIATE IN APPLIED SCIENCE
Career Program

   

Hours

General education requirements (Must include the following)

15

Major Core Requirements 48
  AGRI 115 Intro to Microcomputer Skills in Agriculture  
  AGRI 126 Introductory Soils  
  AGRI 129 Agricultural Computations  
  HORT 100 Introduction to Horticulture  
  HORT 160 Principles of Horticultural Plants  
  HORT 162 Woody Ornamentals  
  HORT 250 Landscape Plans  
  HORT 251 Landscape Layout and Design  
  HORT 253 Landscape Construction  
  HORT 254 Supervised Horticulture Summer Experience Program  
  HORT 255 Supervised Horticulture Experience Program  
  HORT 260 Turf Management I  
Major Core Electives

9

  (Select with approval of adviser from courses listed below)

 

  HORT 151 Electrical Controls  
  HORT 152 Horticulture Equipment Power Units  
  HORT 161 Herbaceous Plants I  
  HORT 163 Evergreens, Vines and Groundcovers  
  HORT 164 Herbaceous Plants II  
  HORT 185 Arboriculture  
  HORT 223 Plant Pathology  
  HORT 243 Entomology  
  HORT 253 Landscape Construction  
  HORT 256 Computer Landscape Design  
  HORT 257 Videoscape Design  
  SPAN 120 Basic Occupational Spanish  
  SPAN 121 Spanish for Landscaping Personnel  

Total


72


A suggested guide for the student planning employment in landscape management  after two years of college:
 

First Year

First Semester   Second Semester  
AGRI 126 4 AGRI 115 3
HORT 100 3 AGRI 129 3
HORT 160 4 HORT 152 3
SPAN 120 1 ENG 101 or ENG 130 3
SPAN 121 2 HORT 163 or HORT 161 3
    Gen Ed (Social Science) 3
Total: 14 Total: 18
Summer Session
HORT 254 6    

Second Year

First Semester   Second Semester    
HORT 243 3 HORT 223 3
HORT 250 4 HORT 251 3
HORT 162 3 HORT 255 9
HORT 185 3    
HORT 260 3    
HORT 253 3    
Total: 19 Total: 15

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AG610
HORTICULTURE
Landscaping

CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT


                                                                                                    Semester Hours
Major Core Requirements .................................................................38

Total.........................................................................................................38

AG615
HORTICULTURE
Landscaping

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

                                                                        Semester Hours

Major Core Requirements ...................................................................29

Total........................................................................................................29

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