Ornamental Horticulture Landscape Development - Finger Lakes Community College

Ornamental Horticulture Landscape Development from Finger Lakes Community College is a Campus Associate Horticulture degree that prepares you for a Agriculture career. The Associate in Applied Science Ornamental Horticulture?Landscape Development degree program is designed for students who enjoy working with nature to preserve plants and improve the environment. Ornamental Horticulture is designed to enhance our living environment and merges the natural ecology of the land with the preservation and development of ecologically sound landscapes . Involved are culture and production of ornamental plants, development of landscape plans, and preservation of shrubs, trees, turfgrasses, and ornamental foliage plants from pests. Blending the beauty of nature with sound scientific methods is the approach of the Ornamental Horticulture?Landscape Development degree at Finger Lakes Community College . Students earning this degree learn to protect and develop the environment as an outdoor "livingscape" by determining what composition of plant life will not only survive but benefit the environment. The A.A.S. Ornamental Horticulture?Landscape Development degree is also environmentally based and prepares students in the areas of turfgrass management, arboretum management, applied plant science research, plant health care, landscape design and sales, tree care, plant propagation, nursery management, floriculture, greenhouse management, integrated pest management, plant preservation, and garden center management. Graduates can start their own business in horticulture or landscaping, work for established firms and agencies, or transfer directly to four-year institutions. The unique beauty of the Finger Lakes Region is part of the "outdoor classroom" in this degree program. It uses as part of its training the world renown New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and Sonnenberg Gardens. Though the primary focus of the A.A.S. Ornamental Horticulture?Landscape Development degree program is to prepare students for employment, all courses are open to students who simply have an interest in the environment and general ornamental horticulture landscaping. The goals of the Associate in Applied Science in Ornamental Horticulture?Landscape Development degree program are: To provide students with theoretical and practical background knowledge of the environment, ornamental horticulture, landscape development, site preparation, and landscape preservation. To prepare students for employment in the field of ornamental horticulture and landscape development . To provide students with sufficient course work to enable them to transfer to four-year institutions in the ornamental horticulture, landscape development, or the plant science fields. To develop in students all of the 11 Competencies identified by Finger Lakes Community College as learning outcomes of a liberal education. View more details on Finger Lakes Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Horticulture courses.