Page 231 of Delgado Community College 2003-2004 Catalog by Delgado Community College New Orleans Louisiana

HORT 112 Plant Propagation 2-2-3 HORT 113 Environmental Landscape Improvement 1-2-2 HORT 120 Horticultural Professionalism I 1-0-1 HORT 213 Environmental Landscape Improvement II 1-2-2 HORT 220 Horticultural Professionalism II 1-0-1 HORT 221 Urban Forestry 2-2-3 HORT 151 Horticultural Internship I 0-12-2 HORT 201 Greenhouse Management and Production Methods 2-2-3 HORT 222 Landscape Design and Management 0-4-2 HORT 223 Fruit and Nut Production 2-2-3 HORT 212 Turf Grasses 1-2-2 laboratory involvement in ordering and using landscape and nursery stock, supplies, and equipment. Hands-on experience, field trip, and outside class project. Introduction to art and science of propagating plants. Practices for increasing plant numbers; anatomical and physiological basis for methods of horticultural and agronomic crops. Laboratory work with hands-on approach to plant propagation. Outside class project required. Prerequisite: HORT 101. Basic residential landscape design. Preparation, evaluation, and implementation of simple landscape plans. Emphasis on ornamental plants, including small flowering shrubs, bedding plants, and tropicals. Laboratory stresses outside class project and field trips. Prerequisite: HORT 101. Principles of professional behavior in green industry: resume writing, interviewing. Required oral presentations using computer for research. Prerequisite: HORT 101. Internship under direction of green industry supervisor and Horticulture Technology faculty. Practical experience in operations of horticultural enterprises; opportunity to develop awareness of segments of horticultural industry. Prerequisites: HORT 110, 112. In-depth greenhouse and nursery plant production techniques, including temperature and humidity, plant watering and nutrient supply systems and controls. Emphasis on hands-on approach to starting and growing selected flowering shrubs, bedding plants, and indoor plants for market. Outside class project. Prerequisites: HORT 102, 110, and 112. Turf grasses: anatomy and physiology, growth, development, installation and maintenance. Characteristics in Southern Louisiana area; important pest problems. Outside lab work, class project and field trips. Prerequisite: HORT 110. Principles and practices of landscape design, installation and management. Ornamental plants of South Louisiana in landscape and home environments: native flowering plants, trees, shrubs, vines and vine covers. Installation and maintenance procedures in interior plant scape. Interaction with industry, outside class assignment and field trip. Prerequisite: HORT 113. Continuation of Horticultural Professionalism I. Emphasis on promotion and marketing of self and organization to general public. Written and oral presentations using computer resources for research. Prerequisite: HORT 120. Identification, ecological, and practical application of evergreen and deciduous woody plants of economic importance to green industry of Southeastern Louisiana. Cultivation, maintenance practices, and use of trees and woody plants of Greater New Orleans area. Laboratory component includes diagnosis and control of tree problems, field work; outside class project and field trips. Landscape project with proposal, cost estimates and contracts. Following installation, student responsible for short-term maintenance. Prerequisite: HORT 213. Principles of tree fruit and nut production: crop identification, adaptability, cultivars, propagation, nutrients, pollination, fruit development, cultural systems, quality determinations, disease and pest control, and marketing. Lab explores orchard management equipment, basic orchard skills. Field trips and outside class project. Prerequisite/Corequisite: HORT 110. 238

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