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Horticulture

HORT 070 3.0 Units HORT 301A 2.0 Units
Landscape Construction and Estimation Adaptive Horticulture - Basic Skills and Practices
Course Advisory: SCC minimum English and Math Course Advisory: This course is for students with
standards; HORT 050. learning difficulties.
Transferable to CSU Hours: 16-18 lecture, 64-72 lab.
Hours: 32-36 lecture, 48-54 lab. A horticulture and vocational training class adapted for
Study of the construction of patios, decks, walks, students with special learning needs. Students will learn
retaining walls, raised planters, mowstrips, fences, basic horticulture skills in a garden, nursery, and landscape
overhead structures, masonry work, sprinkler layout setting. Safety training will be incorporated throughout the
and other landscape features with emphasis on building course. Students will receive a letter grade for this course.
code specifications. Previews contractor’s licensing. Site There will be 1 or more field trips for this course.
development and construction skills will be developed
during the laboratory. HORT 301B 2.0 Units
Adaptive Greenhouse Management
HORT 071 Irrigation Principles 3.0 Units Course Advisory: This course is primarily for students with
Course Advisory: HORT 055; SCC minimum English and special learning needs.
Math standards. Hours: 16-18 lecture, 64-72 lab.
Transferable to CSU Greenhouse skills vocational training course adapted
Hours: 32-36 lecture, 48-54 lab. for but not limited to students with intellectual and/
Study of the principles and management of water or physical disabilities. Students will learn greenhouse
development and use in agricultural and horticultural management skills for employment preparation.
production with special emphasis on water supplies,
measurement, movement through soils, application HORT 301C 2.0 Units
methods, amounts needed and problems of distribution. Adaptive Nursery and Landscape Management
The field laboratories will develop management techniques Course Advisory: This course is primarily for students with
through exercises and field trip observations. disabilities.
Hours: 16-18 lecture, 64-72 lab.
HORT 101 Plant Propagation and Production 2.0 Units This is a nursery and landscape skills vocational training
Course Advisory: HORT 050; SCC minimum English course adapted for but not limited to students with
Standard with a minimum grade of C. intellectual and/or physical disabilities. Students will learn
General Edcation: Horticulture nursery and landscape management skills for employment
Hours: 16-18 lecture, 48-54 lab. preparation. Students will be given a letter grade for this
Plant propagation and production practices with emphasis course. There are one or more field trips required for
on vegetable crops, greenhouse and nursery operations this course.
including sexual and asexual reproduction, planting,
transplanting, fertilizing, plant pest and disease control; HORT 301D 2.0 Units
structures and site layout; preparation and use of Adaptive Vegetable and Orchard Management
propagating and planting mediums; use and maintenance Course Advisory: This course is primarily for students with
of common tools and equipment; regulations pertaining to disabilities.
plant production. Hours: 16-18 lecture, 64-72 lab.
Vegetable and orchard skills vocational training course
adapted for but not limited to students with intellectual
and/or physical disabilities. Students will learn vegetable
and orchard management skills for employment
preparation. Students will receive a letter grade for this
course. There are one or more field trips required for
this course.

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