Sample 4-year plan: Horticulture & Crop Production [0107B]
Year 1
Mandatory Advising - you must see your
faculty advisor at least once per semester
Fall
4/14/2009
Cr
CHEM 131/132
Spring
4
Chemistry I Fundamentals
of General Chemistry and
General Chemistry I
Laboratory
Cr
CHEM 105
3
Fundamentals of Organic
and Biochemistry
replaces CHEM 104
PLSC 101
4
Introductory to Crop
Science
ENGL 101
3
Introduction to Writing
MATH 112, 113 or 115
3
College Algebra with
Applications and
Trigonometry, College
Algebra and Applications,
or Precalculus
PLSC 100
4
Introduction to Horticulture
CORE (HA/HL/HO)
3
CORE (HA/HL/HO)
3
Elective
3
14
Year 2
1. Suggested courses; replaces BSCI 227.
See Advisor.
Student may take BSCI 337 or BSCI 497 to
fulfill this requirement.
*Please note: BSCI 337 offered in Spring;
BSCI 497 offered in Fall
Fall
LARC 160
Cr
Spring
3
Introduction to Landscape
Architecture
PLSC 253 (if PLSC453 not
able to be taken)
16
AREC 250 (SB)
Cr
3
Elements of Agricultural
and Resource Economics
3
BSCI 3371
4
Biology of Insects
Woody Plants for MidAtlantic Landscapes I
PLSC 201
4
Plant Structure and Function
CORE (SB/SH)
ENST 200
4
Fundamentals of Soil
Science
3
PLSC 202
4
Management of
Horticultural Crops
Elective
3
16
15
Sample 4-year plan: Horticulture & Crop Production [0107B]
Year 3
Fall
4/14/2009
Cr
Adv. Dept. Elective
Spring
3-4
Cr
ENGL 393
3
Technical Writing
PLSC 453
3
Weed Science
ENST 411
3
Principles of Soil Fertility
CORE (HA/HL/HO)
3
PLSC 203 or PLSC 271
3
Plants, Genes, and
Biotechnology or Plant
Propagation
CORE (SB/SH)
3
CORE AS
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
15-16
Year 4
1. Students may take BSCI 337 or BSCI
497 to fulfill this requirement.
*Please note: BSCI 337 offered in Spring;
BSCI 497 offered in Fall.
Fall
BSCI 4971
Cr
Spring
4
Insect Pests of Ornamentals
and Turf
PLSC 389
3
Adv. Dept. Elective
PLSC 460 Application of
Knowledge in Plant
Sciences – Capstone
replaces PLSC398 Seminar
4/3 PLSC 400
Technology of Fruit and
Vegetable Production or
Physiol of Maturation and
Storage of Hort Crops
CORE AS
AREC 306
Cr
3
Farm Management
Internship
PLSC 433 or 474
15
3
4
Environmental Plant
Physiology
3
3-4
17-18
Adv. Dept. Elective
3-4
Elective(s)
4-5
17-18