Garden Center, Short-Term Certificate
This two semester certificate program offers garden center management skills to persons who are seeking a career in retail garden center operations but who may not desire a full degree. The certificate is also helpful to those already employed in landscape or other green industries who have a desire to upgrade their knowledge and skills in order to be a more valuable staff member. The Plant Science and Garden Center Short-Term Certificate features course work in such horticulture basics as plant identification, and current landscape practices as well as essential business aspects of retailing in the green industry.
Courses
- HLTH 1230 — HLTH-1230 Standard First Aid and Personal Safety
- PST 1301 — PST-1301 Horticultural Botany
- PST 1311 — PST-1311 Deciduous Woody Landscape Plants
- PST 1321 — PST-1321 Evergreens, Groundcovers, and Herbaceous Landscape Plants
- PST 1331 — PST-1331 Plant Propagation
- PST 1351 — PST-1351 Plant Production
- PST 1400 — PST-1400 Garden Center and Nursery Management
- PST 2321 — PST-2321 Plant Pest Diagnostics