Courses Handbook 2008

303432 v.3 Horticulture Major


Introduction

This major provides agribusiness management and marketing education and training combined with technical training in principles of horticulture, soil management, advanced intensive production system, crop husbandry and post-harvest handling and quality control. Students study horticulture within a systems framework that considers wider national and international market issues and environmental constraints that impact on the industry. This major will enable graduates to assume leadership roles within the horticultural industry as well as in the broader agribusiness sector.

Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 1 Semester 1
303220 v.3   Agribusiness Systems 101 5.0 25.0
303224 v.3   Horticultural Production Systems 101 5.0 25.0
303227 v.4   Agribusiness Communications 101 1.5 12.5
309728 v.2   Agricultural Soils 101 6.0 25.0
309758 v.2   Horticultural Agronomy 101 2.5 12.5
  100.0
Year 1 Semester 2
303232 v.4   Agribusiness Management 102 5.0 25.0
303299 v.3   Agribusiness Economics and Policy 102 5.0 25.0
309729 v.2   Agricultural Statistics 102 4.0 12.5
309759 v.2   Horticultural Plants and Grapevine Physiology 102 5.0 25.0
309764 v.2   Irrigation Science and Technology 102 4.0 12.5
  100.0
Year 2 Semester 1
303244 v.4   Agribusiness Management 201 5.0 25.0
303246 v.3   Agribusiness Accounting and Finance 201 5.0 25.0
303276 v.4   Post Harvest Horticulture and Quality Management 201 5.0 25.0
303324 v.3   Food and Agribusiness Marketing 201 5.0 25.0
  100.0
Year 2 Semester 2
1730 v.7   Plant Propagation 202 5.0 25.0
303252 v.4   Agribusiness Risk and Resource Management 202 5.0 25.0
303338 v.3   Agribusiness Finance 202 5.0 25.0
309730 v.2   Agribusiness Taxation 202 3.0 12.5
309774 v.2   Agribusiness Law 202 3.0 12.5
  100.0
Year 3 Semester 1
303277 v.4   Corporate Agribusiness Management 301 5.0 25.0
303393 v.4   Vegetable Production 401 5.0 25.0
308078 v.2   Agribusiness Marketing Research 301 5.0 25.0
308079 v.2   Operations Research for Agribusiness 301 5.0 25.0
  100.0
Year 3 Semester 2
12503 v.3   Landscape Management and Technology 302 5.0 25.0
  OR
9670 v.7   Agribusiness Project 392 5.0 25.0
303366 v.3   International Agribusiness Marketing 302 5.0 25.0
303369 v.3   Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems 302 6.0 25.0
303440 v.3   Agribusiness Planning (Capstone) 302 4.0 25.0
  100.0
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