Academic Advisor
Alicia George
612-624-3034
132 Skok Hall

Major Coordinator
Albert Markhart
612-624-7705
228 Alderman Hall

Admissions
CFANS Office of Admissions
612-624-6768

Program Description
Our Environmental Horticulture major prepares you for a career designing, growing, or managing plants to improve our environment and quality of life. As a student in our Environmental Horticulture program, you will acquire a broad range of skills in communications, basic sciences, business management, plant pathology, soil science, and horticultural science. Our major is flexible and allows you to tailor coursework for your educational and career goals.

You will choose foundation requirements that focus on either business or science and then take advanced courses in one of five program areas:

• Floriculture/Nursery Production and Retail Management concentrates on the production, sales, and maintenance of bedding, woody landscape, and potted plants. This program area prepares you to be a specialist in floriculture and nursery production, garden center management, plant breeding, or conservatory management.
  
  
• Landscape Design is a joint program with the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The program focuses on sustainable residential and commercial design, design theory and representation, architectural history, and design practice related to larger scale landscape structure and function.
  
  
• Landscape Implementation and Management prepares you to create, manage, and maintain gardens. Coursework focuses on sustainable landscape design and turfgrass science. You will gain hands-on experience building hardscapes, such as gazebos, retaining walls, and pathways, and installing designs in our Display and Trial Garden on campus.
  
  
• Turfgrass Science prepares you for a career as a golf course superintendent, sod producer, lawn service provider, sports turf or industrial grounds manager, or park maintenance supervisor.
  
  
• Individualized Program of Study allows you to develop a cohesive program with your faculty advisor focusing on an area not covered by other Environmental Horticulture program areas. Examples include vegetable or fruit production, sustainable agriculture, public garden management, therapeutic horticulture, or restoration ecology.