This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.
Description: This class is an overview of the Agriculture Industry. Guest lecture presentations, field trips, career research, and industry personnel interviews provide students with real-world examples of the skills and abilities necessary to compete in the world of Agriculture Science.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035
Description: An overview of the horticulture profession, including its role and importance throughout history, current trends, and career opportunities, will be covered. Particular attention is given to horticulture crops, plant classification, use, and the interrelationships between environment, plant growth, and plant development. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Fall Only
Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)
Description: Use word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software applications to create reports, spreadsheets, databases and presentations for business and other applications.
Term hours subtotal:
10
Description: Soil as part of natural and managed ecosystems and landscapes. Solid, liquid, and gas phases and their interactions in the soil. Water, gas and heat movement in soil. Soil biology. Plant nutrient acquisition and use. Soil development, management and use. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Spring Only
Prerequisites: AGR 1201
Description: This course will familiarize the student with methods of increasing plant numbers and producing a marketable product. Topics include growth structures, media, plant culture, sexual and asexual reproduction, grafting, and nursery management. Practical greenhouse and field experience included. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Spring Only
Prerequisites: AGR 1201
Description: This course will allow students to apply knowledge of plant growth in field containers, pot-in-pot methods while integrating acquired plant production methods. Students will use binomial nomenclature of trees, flowers and turf grasses to accurately label and classify plant product. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Spring Only
Prerequisites: AGR 1201
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: Mathematics of finance, mathematics of trade, payroll, taxes, insurance, elementary statistics. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Notes: Can take MAT-1120 or Any Mathematics, Statistics & Logic elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at www.https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or DEV 0054 or Other (satisfactory score on Sinclair Community College English placement test)
Description: Exploration of the development, maintenance and termination of interpersonal relationships. The focus is on effective verbal and nonverbal interactions between two people, highlighting methods of initiating and maintaining effective communication with, and understanding of, others through learning and applying interpersonal communication theory.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Any other college level English course)
Description: The American business system and basic principles of the free market system. Includes introduction of business concepts, entrepreneurship, management, marketing, economics, accounting and other important business principles.
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: Emphasizes the growth process in production of fruits, vegetables, flowers, lawns, trees, and shrubs. Studies include planning, preparation and care of home grounds. Fundamental concepts in plant identification, growth, culture, landscape and design are also studied. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Fall Only
Prerequisites: AGR 1201
Description: This course is designed to prepare students to manage a greenhouse operation. Students in this class will learn to produce various ornamental and food crops. An understanding of structures, crop selection, and growing systems will be explored. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Fall Only
Prerequisites: AGR 1201
Description: This course will give hands on practical experience in greenhouse employment. One classroom, four lab hours per week.
Notes: Fall Only
Prerequisites: AGR 1206
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: This course will assess the design problems/situations, the development of solutions and the communication of those solutions to the client through the design. Specific topics include designing for ecosystem maintenance/enhancement, introduction to using color in landscape designs and rendering section/elevation views. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Spring Only
Prerequisites: AGR 1206
Description: This course is the culminating course in the greenhouse management certificate. This course combines the knowledge obtained in AGR 1201 through AGR 1208 resulting in an applicable working understanding of how to manage a greenhouse in today's economy. Two classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: Spring Only
Prerequisites: AGR 1206
Description: For the student/entrepreneur with no background in finance and accounting. Students will gain a foundation in small business finance: financial and economic concepts; financial terminology; understanding, preparing, analyzing and presenting financial statements; and financial forecasting and budgeting techniques.
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: A critical analysis of contemporary American society with review of major sociological theories, research methods, culture, socialization, groups, social structure, social institutions, deviance, social inequalities, social processes and social change.
Notes: Any Social & Behavioral Science elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: www.https://sinclair.edu/ot36
Prerequisites: DEV 0015
Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements, from prehistory to the seventeenth century.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: www.http://sinclair.edu/ot36
Description: Introduction to fundamental concepts necessary for understanding management, motivation and behavior in organizational settings. Emphasis on planning, organizing, influencing and controlling to continually improve effective management skills.
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: Agricultural Internship provides an opportunity for students to apply concepts learned in the Agriculture AAS degree to learning in a professional setting. Fourteen practicum hours per week.
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: The American legal system as it relates to business transactions, including the judicial system and sources of law, legal procedures, torts, business ethics and social responsibility, contracts, property, employment law, agency, partnerships and corporations.
Description: Strategies and techniques for current, as well as prospective, supervisors emphasizing the assessment of skills required, the analysis of situational factors and the development of creative approaches to effective supervision.
Term hours subtotal:
8