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Associate in Applied Science Degree

Do you have an artistic eye for outdoor spaces? Do you enjoy working with trees, shrubs and flowers? This program combines practical and theoretical experience in the design and installation of residential and commercial landscapes. Our students design projects on campus and in the community, for both residential and commercial applications, often assisting the Campus Beautification Committee. Graduates work as landscape technicians at arboretums, botanical gardens and nurseries, managers of industrial parks, estate managers, irrigation contractors and in related fields. Graduates may choose to continue their education at colleges offering landscape architecture degrees.

Program Summary

As a student in the Landscape Design & Management Program, you will gain practical experience in the design, installation and maintenance of residential and commercial landscapes. Graduates are hired by corporate and private landscape management companies, design and build firms, irrigation contractors, public gardens, wholesale nurseries and retail garden centers. Some students may also choose to transfer into four-year programs in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Contracting and related fields.

The courses specific to the program include but are not limited to:

• Landscape Graphics
• Planting Design
• Advanced Landscape Design & Practices
• Landscape Construction Principles
• Grading & Drainage
• Grounds Equipment & Fleet Management

To prepare students for a more broad based background natural science classes such as Botany, Soil Technology, Entomology, Plant Pathology and Woody Plant Identification I, II and Woody Plant Field are required of the curriculum.

Facilities

On campus facilities provide indoor and outdoor learning environments where students may practice and study what they have learned. Some facilities are available evenings and weekends to afford students the flexibility they may need in their weekly schedule. Some facilities are as follows:

• Landscape Design Studio – drafting tables, blueprint machines, light tables, etc.
• Computer Labs – with preloaded CADD, Sketch-Up, Adobe Photoshop, etc. programs
• Display gardens – includes shrubs, evergreens, perennials and vines
• 280 acre natural arboretum – native plants located along and around a maintained path
• Tree and shrub nursery – plant establishment and use for laboratory demonstrations
• Production and educational greenhouses – indoor and outdoor plants displayed, grown and maintained by and for classroom use.