Courses
Students enrolled in the Certificate program may take all 15 hours from the Department of Horticultural Science. Or, they may choose at least nine hours from Horticultural Science,
with remaining credit hours from approved classes in other departments.
This chart lists all courses approved to meet HS Certificate requirements, along with credit hours and tentative semester offerings (when available). The chart is also available in Microsoft Word.
Please note: Not all courses are offered each semester, and courses may be cancelled
occasionally due to low enrollment. Check with your advisor and consult DELTA’s current
course catalog for the most up-to-date course listings.
Courses offered by the Department of Horticultural Sciences
Course # Title Credit hours Semester
HS (CS) 541 Plant Breeding Methods 3 Fall - even years
HS 542 Advanced Vegetable Crop Management 3 Spring
HS 543 Food Production in Greenhouses and High Tunnels 3 Fall
HS (FS) 562 Postharvest Physiology 1 Spring
HS 590-N Advanced Nursery Crop Management 3 Spring - odd years
HS 590-F Special Topic: Fruit Quality 3 Fall - even years
HS 590-U Introduction to Permaculture 3 Fall and Spring
HS 590-A/C Special Topic: General Viticulture 3 Fall
HS 703 Breeding Asexually Propagated Crops 1 Fall - even years
HS 706 Fruit Development and Postharvest Physiology 1 Spring
HS 707 Environmental Stress Physiology 1 Spring
HS (CS) 717 Weed Management Systems 1 Fall
HS (CS) 729 Herbicide Behavior In Plants 2 Spring
Courses outside the Department of Horticultural Sciences
Course # Title Credit hours Semester
AEE 435 Professional Presentations in Agricultural Organizations 3 Spring
AEE 460 Organizational Leadership Development in Agriculture 3 Spring
AEE 495 Special Topic: Biotechnology 3 Fall
AEE 500 Agricultural Education, Schools and Society 3 Fall
AEE 501 Foundations of Agricultural and Extension Education 3 Fall
AEE 503 Youth Program Management 3 Spring
AEE 505 Trends and Issues in Agricultural and Extension Education 3 Spring
AEE 521 Program Planning in Agricultural and Extension Education 3 Fall
AEE 523 Adult Education in Agriculture 3 Fall
AEE 526 IT in Agricultural and Extension Education 3 Spring
AEE 530 Priority Management in Ag and Extension Education 3 Spring
AEE 535 Teaching Agriculture in Secondary Schools 3 Fall
AEE 560 Org. and Admin. Leadership in Ag and Exten. Education 3 Fall
BAE 570 Soil Water Movement 1 Fall and Spring
BAE 575 Design of Structural Storm-water Best Practices 3 Spring - odd years
BAE 576 Watershed Monitoring and Assessment 3 Fall
BAE 578 Agricultural Waste Management 3 Fall
BAE 590 Biomass-to-Renewable Energy Processes
BAE 590 Special Topic: Wetlands
BAE 590 Special Topic: GIS Applications in Precision Agriculture
BAE 590 GIS Applications in WQ and Hydrologic Modeling 1-3 Spring
BAE 590R Special Topic: Integrating AutoCAD Civil3D and GIS Fall
BAE 771 Theory Of Drainage--Saturated Flow 3 Fall - even years
CS 424 Seed Physiology 3 Spring
CS 495 Special Topic: Sustainability of Tropical Agroecosystems
CS 590 Special Topic: Sustainability of Tropical Agroecosystems
CS 714 Crop Physiology: Plant Response to Environment 3 Fall
FS 407 Risk Analysis/Hazard Analysis in Food Safety 3 Spring
FS 453 Food Laws and Regulations 3 Spring
FS 495K Special Topic: Food Sanitation
FS 495R Special Topic: Good Manufacturing Practices
FS 495X Special Topic: Hazard Analysis
FS 495Y Special Topic: Microbiology/Microbial Hazards
ENT 425 General Entomology 3 Fall
PB 480 Introduction to Plant Biotechnology 3 Fall
PB 595 Special Topic: Plant Resources, People, and Religion of China
SSC 470 Wetland Soils 3 Fall
SSC 532 Soil Microbiology 4
SSC 541 Soil Fertility 3 Fall
SSC 551 Soil Morphology, Genesis and Classification 3 Fall
SSC 562 Environmental Applications of Soil Science 3