Jan 22, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Horticulture - Landscape Horticulture (BS) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


First Year Hours K-State Core  
Semester 1      
English Requirement 3 KSC 010  
Communications Requirement 3 KSC 020  
HORT - 201 Principles of Horticultural Science 4    
HNR 101 - Intro to HNR 1    
Natural & Physical Sciences Requirement (recommended Biol 198) 4 KSC 040  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
English Requirement 3 KSC 010  
CHM 110 - General Chemistry 3    
CHM 111 - General Chemistry Laboratory 1    
HORT 275 - Horticultural Design I 3    
HORT 350 - Plant Propagation 3    
AGEC 120 - Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness OR 3    
ECON 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics OR 3    
ECON 120 - Principles of Microeconomics 3    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
MATH 100 - College Algebra 3    
Social and Behavioral Science Requirement 3 KSC 050  
HORT 374 - Landscape Plants I 3    
Arts and Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
BIOL 198 - Principles of Biology OR 4    
Unrestricted Elective (if Biol 198 taken in semester 1) 4    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 2      
Arts and Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Unrestricted Elective 3    
Social and Behavioral Science Requirement 3 KSC 050  
HORT 508 - Sustainable Landscape Maintenance Practices 2    
Unrestricted Elective 3    
Total Credits: 14      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
HORT 550 - Horticultural Irrigation Systems 3    
BIOL 500 - Plant Physiology 3    
**HORT 551 - The Business of Landscape Contracting** 2    
HORT Landscape Option Elective #1 (See Departmental List) 3    
ENTOM 312 - General Entomology 3    
Total Credits: 14      
       
Semester 2      
PLPTH 500 - Principles of Plant Pathology 3    
AGRON 205 - Soils 3    
AGRON 206 - Soils Laboratory 1    
HORT 510 - Horticultural Design II 3    
HORT 375 - Landscape Plants II 3    
ACCTG 231 - Accounting for Business Operations 3    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
HORT 490 - Horticulture Internship 3-6    
HORT 570 - Greenhouse Operations Management 3    
Communications Elective (See Departmental List) 3    
HORT Landscape Option Elective #1 3    
Business Elective #1 (See Departmental List) 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
HORT Landscape Option Elective #3 (See Departmental List) 2    
HORT 282 - Foundations of Horticultural Pest Management 1    
PLPTH 590 - Landscape Diseases 2    
HORT 515 - Basic Turfgrass Culture 3    
HORT 585 - Arboriculture 3    
Business Elective #2 (See Departmental List) 3    
Total Credits: 14      
       
Total Program Hours: 120