Arboriculture and Community Forest Management

2-year Associate Degree

Program Advisor: Kristina Bezanson, ISA BCMA®, MCA

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This major prepares graduates for careers in residential, commercial, municipal, and utility arboriculture, as well as the non-profit sector. Students will learn how to plant, prune, fertilize, cable, and remove trees.  Pest and disease management, plant health care, quantifying the benefits that trees provide, and identifying the risks they present, are topics in the program.

Courses in bold require a minimum grade of C.

FIRST SEMESTER (FALL)

NRC 102 Arboricultural Field Techniques I  2

NRC 232 Principles of Arboriculture  3

STOCKSCH 105 Soils  4

STOCKSCH 108 Introductory Botany  4

STOCKSCH 192F First Year Seminar  1

SUSTCOMM 335 Plants in Landscape 4

Credit Total  18

SECOND SEMESTER (SPRING)

Courses for First Seven Weeks Only, Followed by Internship

NRC 191A Seminar in Arboriculture & Comm. Forestry  2

NRC 210 Arboricultural Field Techniques II  2

NRC 333 Principles of Arboriculture II  2

STOCKSCH 101 Insects & Related Forms  2

STOCKSCH 111 Introductory Plant Pathology  2

NRC 198Y Arboriculture Internship (April-August)  4

Credit Total  14

THIRD SEMESTER (FALL)

MATH 100/101/104 Course Based on Math Placement Exam Score  3

NRC 305 Commercial Arboriculture  3

STOCKSCH 109 Insects of Ornamentals  3

STOCKSCH 230 Introductory Turfgrass Management  4

ELECTIVE xxx (Optional: See Examples Below)  2-3

Credit Total 13-16

FOURTH SEMESTER (SPRING)

ENGLWRIT 111/112 Course Based on Writing Placement Exam Score  3-4

NRC 310 Community Forestry  3

ELECTIVES or GEN EDS (With Advisor Approval: See Examples Below)  9-13

Credit Total  15-20

Grand Total 60-68

Arboriculture Electives (Taken with Advisor Approval)

Note: May take other courses with advisor approval. Students planning to transfer to a 4-year bachelor’s program may be encouraged to complete general education courses that count towards that goal.

LANDARCH 297M Business Concepts of Landscape Contracting  3

NRC 213 Arboricultural Field Techniques III  2

NRC 225 Forests and People  3

NRC 235 Sensible Pruning for Beginners & Experts  2

NRC 261 Wildlife Conservation  3

General Education Courses (Only For Students Transferring to a BS Program)

CHEM 111 General Chemistry (PS)  4

MATH 104 Algebra, Analytic Geometry, and Trigonometry (R1)  3

NRC 100 Environment and Society (SI)  4

RES-ECON 102 Introduction to Resource Economics (SB)  4

STOCKSCH 172 Plants in Our World (SI)  4