Horticulture, Land Systems, and Management - Small Market Farming (HLMSO)

Award: Associate in applied science degree

Program location: Fort Omaha Campus

This option prepares students to pursue entrepreneurial growing operations or enter into an existing small market business.

Graduation Requirements

General education	27.0
Major requirements	31.0
Option requirements	43.5
Total credit hours required	101.5

General education requirements (27.0 credit hrs.)

Communications

	English level I	4.5
	English level II	4.5

See Communications course options

Humanities/social sciences

Humanities/social sciences

4.5

See Humanities/social sciences course options

Quantitative/numeracy skills

MATH 1240

Technical Mathematics

4.5

Professionalism and Life Skills

INFO 1001	Information Systems and LiteracyONLINEHYBRID	4.5
HMRL 1010	Human Relations SkillsONLINEHYBRID	4.5
	OR
RDLS 1200	College and Career StrategiesONLINE	4.5

Major requirements for Horticulture, Land Systems, and Management (31.0 credit hrs.)

HLSM 1000	Horticulture, Land Systems and Management Orientation	1.0
HLSM 1010	Introduction to Horticulture	6.0
HLSM 1100	Perennials: Culture and Identification	3.0
HLSM 2430	Plant Physiology	4.5
HLSM 2910	Internship	3.0
BSAD 1000	Introduction to BusinessONLINE	4.5
ENTR 1050	Introduction to EntrepreneurshipONLINEHYBRID	4.5
SPAN	Course of choice	4.5

Option requirements for Horticulture, Land Systems, and Management - Small Market Farming (43.5 credit hrs.)

HLSM 1020	Introduction to Aquaponics	3.0
HLSM 1040	Pesticide Applicators' Certification	4.5
HLSM 1120	Pomology: Culture and IdentificationHYBRID	3.0
HLSM 1400	Natural Systems and Sustainability	3.0
HLSM 1500	Produce Safety, Handling and Packaging	3.0
HLSM 2340	Introduction to Regional Planning	3.0
HLSM 2400	Site Systems	3.0
HLSM 2410	Plant Propagation	3.0
HLSM 2420	Plant Pathology	3.0
HLSM 2425	Entomology	3.0
HLSM 2500	Small Market Farming	3.0
HLSM 2510	Olericulture	3.0
HLSM 2520	Introduction to Small Animal Husbandry	3.0
HLSM 2610	Floriculture Production	3.0

See Curriculum Plan