Landscape Management, Arboriculture Option, AAS
This degree prepares students for a career in arboriculture and urban forestry, providing the necessary knowledge base to pass the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Certified Arborist exam. Courses within this program are useful for both beginning students and working arborists trying to expand the breadth and depth of their knowledge. It provides a learning environment free of the demands of production arboriculture to practice techniques used in climbing, rigging, and operations management. We focus on safety, efficiency, and the reasoning behind industry standard planting, pruning, communication, tree health, and risk assessment. Students use common tree care equipment to manag
Courses
- BA 119 — Project Management Practices
- BA 207 — Prepping for Business Success
- BA 285 — Human Relations in Business
- COMM 100Z — Introduction to Communication
- COMM 111Z — Public Speaking
- COMM 140 — Introduction to Intercultural Communication
- COMM 218Z — Interpersonal Communication
- FYE 101 — First Year Experience Level I
- HE 252 — First Aid/CPR/AED
- HOR 115 — Horticulture Safety
- HOR 118 — Spanish for Horticulture
- HOR 120 — Pesticide Laws & Safety
- HOR 123 — Landscape Maintenance
- HOR 131 — Tree & Shrub Pruning
- HOR 140 — Soils
- HOR 146 — Fruit & Berry Growing
- HOR 211 — Native Plant Identification
- HOR 215 — Herbaceous Perennials
- HOR 216 — Integrated Pest Management
- HOR 222 — Horticultural Computer Applications
- HOR 223 — Applied Plant Science
- HOR 224 — Landscape Installation
- HOR 225 — Arboriculture I
- HOR 226 — Plant Identification/Fall
- HOR 227 — Plant Identification/Winter
- HOR 228 — Plant Identification/Spring
- HOR 229 — Introduction to Landscape Design
- HOR 230 — Equipment Operation & Maintenance
- HOR 231 — Irrigation Design
- HOR 235 — Weed Identification
- HOR 236 — Insect Identification
- HOR 237 — Disease Identification
- HOR 239 — Tree Climber Training
- HOR 240 — Irrigation Practices
- HOR 244 — Ecological Landscape Design
- HOR 249 — Landscape Bidding and Estimating
- HOR 260 — Arboriculture II
- HOR 261 — Tree Diagnostics
- HOR 262 — Treework Practicum I
- HOR 263 — Plant Health Care Practicum
- HOR 264 — Treework Practicum II (Aerial)
- HOR 280 — Horticulture/CWE
- HOR 281 — Horticulture/CWE
- HOR 282 — Horticulture/CWE
- HOR 290 — Special Topics in Horticulture
- MTH 050 — Technical Mathematics I
- MTH 065 — Algebra II
- WR 101 — Workplace Writing
- WR 121Z — Composition I