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HORT 2044 - Landscape Management

Credits: 2
Hours/Week: Lecture 2Lab None
Course Description: This course covers the process of developing landscape maintenance schedules and how to direct employees in grounds keeping for parks, recreational facilities, residential properties, and commercial properties. Course content includes horticultural techniques for the care of turf, herbaceous, and woody plants. This course focuses on management strategies, problem solving, and current issues in landscape management.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Current issues in landscape management.
  2. Identification of common insect, disease and environmental problems in landscapes.
  3. Maintenance schedules for residential, commercial and public sites
  4. Maintenance tasks, including pruning and fertilizing trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants
  5. Note: with every topic, the unique characteristics of the horticulture industry¿seasonal activities, impact of weather and legislative concerns (restrictions on phosphorus use, pesticide applicator regulations, irrigation licensing) etc. will be addressed
  6. Pest control methods.
  7. Standards for property maintenance.
  8. Written and oral proposals for landscape management services.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. explain how maintenance procedures affect plant growth.
  2. apply the principles of site analysis in developing maintenance programs
  3. practice fundamentals of woody and herbaceous plant maintenance.
  4. identify woody and herbaceous plant problems and recommend control methods.
  5. implement grounds management strategies.
  6. research and discuss contemporary landscape management issues.


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