Horticulture: Horticultural Science, BSAG
Requirements for Students Matriculating in or before Academic Year 2025-2026. Learn more about University Academic Regulation 3.1.
Minimum Overall Grade Point Average: 2.00
Total Hours: 120
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| General Education Requirements | ||
| English Composition | ||
| See Academic Regulation 3.5 | ||
| ENGL 1113 | Composition I | 3 |
| or ENGL 1313 | Critical Analysis and Writing I | |
| ENGL 1213 | Composition II | 3 |
| American History & Government | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Survey of American History | ||
| American History to 1865 (H) | ||
| American History Since 1865 (DH) | ||
| POLS 1113 | American Government | 3 |
| Quantitative Thought & Logical Reasoning (Q) | ||
| MATH 1483 | Mathematical Functions and Their Uses (Q) | 3 |
| or MATH 1513 | College Algebra (Q) | |
| Understanding Humanities-Human Heritage & Cultures (H) | ||
| Courses designated (H) | 6 | |
| Reasoning in the Natural Sciences (N) | ||
| Must include one Laboratory-Based Inquiry (L) course | ||
| Select from one of the following: | 4 | |
| Introductory Biology (LN) 1 | ||
| Introductory Biology (N) and Introductory Biology Laboratory (LN) 1 | ||
| Plant Biology (LN) | ||
| HORT 1013 | Principles of Horticultural Science (LN) | 3 |
| Exploring Society & Human Behavior (S) | ||
| AGEC 1113 | Introduction to Agricultural Economics (S) | 3 |
| Diversity (D) | ||
| Courses designated (D) | 3 | |
| Global Cultural Competency (G) | ||
| Courses designated (G) | 3 | |
| Additional General Education | ||
| Additional general education credit hours (at least 3 hours) are required to meet the total 40-hour minimum. If courses carry more than one general education designation and can be used to meet multiple minimum general education designation hours above, more than 3 hours of additional general education will be required here to meet the 40-hour minimum. | ||
| Courses designated (Q), (H), (N), (S), (D), (G), or (F). | 3 | |
| Hours Subtotal | 40 | |
| College/Departmental Requirements | ||
| UNIV 1111 | First Year Seminar (or other approved first year seminar course) | 1 |
| CHEM 1215 | Chemical Principles I (LN) | 5 |
| SOIL 2124 | Fundamentals of Soil Science (N) | 4 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Written Communications in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | ||
| Written Communication | ||
| Technical Writing 3 | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Oral Communications in Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources (S) 2 | ||
| Introduction to Speech Communication (S) 2 | ||
| Elements of Persuasion (S) 2 | ||
| ENTO 2993 | Introduction to Entomology (LN) | 3 |
| HORT 2010 | Internship in Horticulture or Landscape Management | 1 |
| HORT 2513 | Herbaceous Plant Materials | 3 |
| or HORT 2613 | Woody Plant Materials | |
| HORT 3084 | Plant Propagation | 4 |
| HORT 3153 | Turf Management | 3 |
| or HORT 3833 | Hydroponics and Soilless Crop Production | |
| HORT 3513 | Landscape Irrigation | 3 |
| PLP 4343 | Principles of Plant Pathology | 3 |
| Hours Subtotal | 36 | |
| Major Requirements | ||
| HORT 4963 | Horticulture Physiology | 3 |
| CHEM 1225 | Chemical Principles II (LN) | 5 |
| HORT 3113 | Greenhouse Management | 3 |
| ANSI 3423 | Animal Genetics | 3 |
| or BIOL 3023 | General Genetics | |
| CHEM 3013 | Survey of Organic Chemistry | 3 |
| or BIOC 2344 | Chemistry and Applications of Biomolecules | |
| Related Courses | ||
| Select 12 hours (6 must be upper-division) from Ferguson College of Agriculture | 12 | |
| Select 15 hours (6 must be upper division) from HORT | 15 | |
| Hours Subtotal | 44 | |
| Electives | ||
| Select 0 hours to complete required total for degree | 0 | |
| Hours Subtotal | 0 | |
| Total Hours | 120 | |
- 1
College & Departmental requirements that may be used to meet General Education requirements.
- 2
If used as an additional (S) course above, hours in this block are reduced by three.
- 3
If ENGL 3323 Technical Writing is substituted for ENGL 1213 Composition II above, then hours in this block are reduced by three.
Other Requirements
- A minimum of 40 semester credit hours and 100 grade points must be earned in courses numbered 3000 or above.
- A 2.00 GPA or higher in upper-division hours.
- A 2.25 GPA or higher is required in courses listed in the Major Requirements column above.
Additional State/OSU Requirements
- At least: 60 hours at a four-year institution; 30 hours completed at OSU; 15 of the final 30 and 50% of the upper-division hours in the major field completed at OSU.
- Limit of: one-half of major course requirements as transfer work; one-fourth of hours earned by correspondence; 8 transfer correspondence hours.
- Students will be held responsible for degree requirements in effect at the time of matriculation and any changes that are made, so long as these changes do not result in semester credit hours being added or do not delay graduation.
- Degrees that follow this plan must be completed by the end of Summer 2031.