Degree Description:
Designed for students interested in landscape contracting and landscape maintenance careers, including park settings, schoolgrounds, residential landscapes, and commercial landscapes. Skills include hardscape installation, sprinkler systems, turfgrass management, and landscape installation and care.
Degree Course Requirements:
| Course # |
Course Title |
Units |
| LNT 100 |
Plant and Horticultural Science |
4 |
| LNT 102-116, 119 |
Plant Identification* |
6* |
| LNT 134 |
Soils |
3 |
| LNT 136 |
Plant Pest and Disease Control |
3 |
| ACCT 7 |
Basic Business Bookkeeping |
|
| |
OR |
3 |
| LNT 148 |
Horticultural Business Practices |
|
| BIOL 100 & 101 |
Principle of Biology and Lab |
|
| |
OR |
4 |
| BIOL 170 |
Field Botany |
|
| CE 290-293 |
Occupational Cooperative Education I-IV |
4 |
| Electives |
Students must choose from the courses below |
|
|
to achieve 12 additional units |
|
| LNT 72 |
Horticultural Equipment: Care and Operation |
2 |
| LNT 75 |
Pond Design, Installation, and Care |
1 |
| LNT 120 |
Landscape Design 1 |
4 |
| LNT 122 |
Landscape Design 2 |
4 |
| LNT 125 |
Landscape Construction: Concrete |
1 |
| LNT 126 |
Landscape Construction: Lumber |
1 |
| LNT 127 |
Landscape Construction: Sprinkler Installation |
1 |
| LNT 128 |
Sprinkler Design |
3 |
| LNT 131 |
Landscape Contracting and Estimating |
3 |
| LNT 132 |
Turf Management |
3 |
* Students may choose any of the Plant Identification courses to total at least 6 units.
Plus required General Education courses. See your counselor to help you plan your degree program.