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Hort 428 Greenhouse Management Course Syllabus

Instructor: Terri W. Starman, PhD
Office: HFSB 424
Office Hours: open door policy but appointments are encouraged
Office Phone: 979-862-2910
email: tstarman@tamu.edu

Course Introduction: HORT 428 deals with the environmental factors regulated in a greenhouse and management of a greenhouse business, not so much with the actual crops to be grown. This course helps to prepare students for a career in management of commercial greenhouses, conservatories and institutional greenhouses.

Course Description: Principles of greenhouse operation and management for commercial production of floral crops; greenhouse construction and operation; regulating and controlling the environment and applying cultural practices as they affect plant physiological processes and influence plant growth and developement; management of a greenhouse business.

Course Objectives: Upon the satisfactory completion of class assignments and the classroom experiences provided in the course, the student should expect to be able to:

• Engineer heating, cooling, ventilation, benching, lighting, irrigation and fertilization systems for a greenhouse
  

• Control greenhouse environmental and cultural inputs for optimum crop growth and development.
  

• Apply business management principles to a commercial greenhouse setting

Prerequisite:
Hort 201 or Hort 301

Course Content:

Reference Materials

• Textbook chapters (Nelson, P.V. 2003. Greenhouse Operation & Management. 6th ed., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.)
• Instructor's lecture videos
• Instructor's syllabi with objectives and study questions
• Trade magazine articles

Assesment Tools

• Hourly exams (3 @ 100 points each)
• Comprehensive final exam (100 points)
• Weekly quizzes (11 @ 10 points each) Each quiz is available to be taken from 12:01am Thursday to 11:59pm Wednesday during the week that unit is covered. You are allowed 20 minutes to complete each quiz. No late quizzes will be accepted

Grading Scale:

Scholarship Opportunities:
American Floral Endowment
Floriculture Industry Research and Scholarship Trust
Southern Nursery Association

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Policy Statement: The American Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Director of Counseling and each of your course instructors.

Copyrights: Please note that all handouts and supplements used in this course are copyrighted. This includes all materials generated for this class, including but not limited to syllabi, exams, in-class materials, review sheets, and lecture outlines. Materials may be downloaded or photocopied for personal use only, and may not be given or sold to other individuals.

Scholastic Dishonesty: As commonly defined, plagiarism consists of passing off as one's own, ideas, work, writings, etc., which belong to another. In accordance with this definition, you are commiting plagiarism if you copy the work of another person and turn it in as your own, even if you should have the permission of that person. Plagiarism is one of the worst academic sins, for the plagiarist destroys the trust among colleagues without which research cannot be safely communicated. If you have questions regarding plagiarism, please consult the latest issue of the Texas A&M University Rules, under the section "Scholastic Dishonesty."

Disruptive Behavior: Disruptive Activity is defined by TAMU Student Rule 24.3.12 as classroom behavior that seriously interferes with either (a) the instructor's ability to conduct the class or (b) the ability of other students to profit from the instructional program.

If a student exhibits Disruptive Activity in this class the instructor will follow Texas A&M Student Rules, Classroom Behavior, section 21. Essentially, any disruptive student will get one warning to inform him/her that their behavior is inappropriate. The second time the student breaks the rule that same day in class, he/she will be asked to leave the class for the remainder of the class period that day.

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