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Turf Management Concentration

This program of study focuses on the production and maintenance of grassed areas, including home lawns, parks, golf courses and other athletic surfaces. This concentration integrates scientific theory with practical experience, and covers such topics as grass and seed identification, turfgrass culture and physiology, pest control, and equipment maintenance. Excellent career opportunities exist in turf management, and job placement of our graduates is nearly 100 percent.

In addition to the foundation course work required of all Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences students, the following courses are required:


PLSOILIN Required Courses
  PLSOILIN
230
Intro. Turfgrass Management

(3 cr.)

  PLSOILIN
234
Irrigation and Drainage
(3 cr.)
  PLSOILIN 240   Applied Calculations in Turf (2 cr.)
  PLSOILIN
275
Turf Physiology & Ecology
(3 cr.)
  PLSOILIN
310
Weed Management
(3 cr.)
  PLSOILIN
340
Adv. Turf Management
(3 cr.)

Select two 500-level PLNTSOIL courses for a total of at least six credits:
  PLNTSOIL
530
Plant Nutrition
(4 cr.)
  PLNTSOIL
550
Plant Growth Regulators
(3 cr.)
  PLNTSOIL
555
Environmental Stress
(3 cr.)
  PLNTSOIL
560
Advanced Weed Science
(3 cr.)
  PLNTSOIL
565
Soil Formation and Classification
(4 cr.)
  PLNTSOIL
570
Soil Physics
(3 cr.)
  PLNTSOIL
575
Environmental Soil Chemistry
(4 cr.)
  PLNTSOIL
580
Soil Fertility
(3 cr.)

Other Required Courses
  PLSOILIN
101
Insects and Related Forms
(2 cr.)
  PLSOILIN
107
Turf Insects
(2 cr.)
  PLNTSOIL
505
General Plant Pathology
(4 cr.)
  "Open" elective:
Select from the list below
(3 cr.)

Other Suggested Supplemental Courses:
  MICROBIO
597D
Special Topics - Turf Diseases
(1 cr.)
  ENVIRDES
335
Plant Materials I
(4 cr.)
  FOREST
332
Principles of Arboriculture
(3 cr.)
  PLNTSOIL
572
Nematology
(4 cr.)

Suggested Supplemental Courses within PLSOILIN
  PLSOILIN
200
Plant Propagation
(3 cr.)
  PLSOILIN
232
Turf Machinery
(3 cr.)
  PLSOILIN
255
Herbaceous Perennials
(3 cr.)
  PLSOILIN
375
Soil and Water Conservation
(3 cr.)

 

 

 
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