Landscape and Lawn Management, A.A.S.

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(Code 1420)

MCC offers an Associate in Applied Science in Landscape & Lawn Management in partnership with Michigan State University. This program combines horticulture and business courses to prepare students for careers in the landscape and nursery industry.

Prerequisite courses may apply to this program.

General Education Requirements

Written Communications:

One of the following:

ENGL 100 - Freshman English I 3 credit
ENGL 101 - Freshman English II 3 credit

Oral Communications:

One of the following:

COMM 210 - Speech 3 credit
COMM 220 - Interpersonal Communication 3 credit

Laboratory Science:

BIOL 110 - Botany 4 credit

Mathematics:

One of the following:

MATH 104 - Intermediate Algebra 4 credit
MATH 120 - Trigonometry 3 credit
MATH 159 - College Algebra 4 credit
MATH 190 - Elementary Statistics 3 credit
MATH 250 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry I 4 credit
MATH 251 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry II 4 credit

Social Science:

POLI 110 OR a combination of POLI 240 plus at least one of the following:

ANTH 260 - Cultural Anthropology 3 credit
ANTH 265 - Indian Cultures of North America 3 credit
ECON 215 - Principles of Macroeconomics 3 credit
ECON 216 - Principles of Microeconomics 3 credit
HIST 250 - United States History to 1865 3 credit
HIST 251 - United States History Since 1865 3 credit
HIST 252 - The Civil War Era 3 credit
HIST 253 - Honors/Service Learning: Native American History 3 credit
HIST 255 - Michigan History 3 credit
HIST 257 - 20th Century World: History & Issues 3 credit
PSYC 120 - General Psychology 3 credit
PSYC 221 - Child Psychology 3 credit
PSYC 223 - Psychology of Sex & Gender 3 credit
PSYC 225 - Abnormal Psychology 3 credit
SOCI 111 - Introduction to Social Science II 4 credit
SOCI 230 - Sociology 3 credit
SOCI 235 - Social Problems 3 credit

Humanities:

4 credits

One of the following:

HUMN 100 - Introduction to Western Culture 4 credit
HUMN 200 - Western Culture to 1600 4 credit
HUMN 201 - Western Culture since 1600 4 credit

Or two of the following:

(courses must have different prefixes and only one may be a foreign language)

ARTS 120 - Introduction to Art 2 credit
ENGL 195 - Introduction to Literature 3 credit
ENGL 200 - American Thought & Literature I 3 credit
ENGL 201 - American Thought & Literature II 3 credit
ENGL 212 - Oral Interpretation 3 credit
ENGL 220 - English Literature from the Beginning to 1798 3 credit
ENGL 221 - English Literature from 1798 to Present 3 credit
ENGL 265 - Introduction to Film 4 credit
FREN 120 - Elementary French I 4 credit
FREN 121 - Elementary French II 4 credit
GERM 101 - German I 4 credit
GERM 102 - German II 4 credit
MUSI 101 - Music Appreciation 3 credit
MUSI 110 - Music in the Elementary Classroom 3 credit
PHIL 220 - Introduction to Philosophy 3 credit
PHIL 221 - Philosophy of World Religions 3 credit
PHIL 222 - Bioethics 3 credit
SPAN 130 - Elementary Spanish I 4 credit
SPAN 131 - Elementary Spanish II 4 credit

Computer Literacy:

One of the following:

CMIS 115 - Introduction to Computer Information Systems 3 credit
CMIS 175 - Microcomputer Applications 4 credit

Program Requirements

ENGL 101 - Freshman English II 3 credit
MGMT 235 - Small Business Management 3 credit or
MGMT 237 - Concepts of Management 3 credit

Plus three of the following:

ACCT 105 - Accounting for Small Business 3 credit
ACCT 246 - Tax Accounting 3 credit
BUSN 200 - Legal Environment of Business 3 credit
MRKT 234 - Retailing 3 credit
MRKT 248 - Advertising 3 credit

Note:

Landscape & Lawn Management Program = minimum of 24 MSU credits is required

Required courses

AT 293 - Placement Training/ Internship 3 credit
CSS 210 - Fund. of Soil Science 3 credit
CSS 202 - World of Turf 2 credit
CSS 202L - World of Turf Lab 1 credit
ENT 111 - Basics of Applied Entomology 2 credit
HRT 211 - Landscape Plant Identification I 3 credit
HRT 212 - Landscape Plant Identification II 3 credit
HRT 213 - Landscape Maintenance 2 credit
INDS 265 - Landscape & Turf Business Operations 2 credit
PLP 104 - Applied Plant Pathology for Ornamentals & Turf 3 credit

Electives

HRT 111 - Landscape Design 3 credit
HRT 218 - Landscape Irrigation 3 credit
HRT 290 - Independent Study in Hort 1-4 credit
HRT 475 - Study Abroad 4 credit minimum

Note:

Minimum of 60 unduplicated credits (100 level or higher) required.