PLSCI 1102

Hands-On Horticulture for Gardeners

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

The objective is to instill in students a lifelong appreciation for how gardening can enhance individual well-being through aesthetics, culinary experiences, and mastery of techniques. Emphasizes hands-on learning and practice of key gardening skills and techniques in the greenhouse and the field, such as landscape management, garden design, propagation, pruning, grafting, pest management, and flower arrangement.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: first-year students, sophomores and juniors.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

Outcomes

• Develop a life-long appreciation for how gardening can enhance individual well-being through aesthetics, culinary experiences, and mastery of techniques.
• Apply key gardening skills and techniques, such as landscape management, garden design, propagation, pruning, grafting, pest management, and flower arrangement.
• Explain the science behind various practices used in the production and management of fruits, vegetables, flowers, grass and landscape plants.

When Offered Spring.

Comments Not for Plant Sciences or Agricultural Science majors. There is one Saturday field trip at the end of the semester to visit gardens in the local area.

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