Horticulture Minor

Offered at: San Luis Obispo Campus

The minor provides students with an understanding of the landscape horticultural industry and provides basic skills to understand the design, installation, and maintenance of landscapes. Students develop a knowledge of landscape plants and plant care as well as the basics of landscape contracting, including construction processes and materials used in the landscape industry. Students may learn advanced skills and concepts in the areas of turfgrass for golf course/sports field applications, design/build, plant care and arboriculture. Not open to Plant Sciences majors concentrating in Environmental Horticultural Science.

Program Learning Objectives

1. Identify the most important horticultural plants in the western United States.
2. Practice hands-on skills related to production or landscape horticulture.
3. Justify cultural practices for horticultural production or landscape management in California.
4. Evaluate sustainability of horticultural practices in production or landscape settings.

Minor Requirements and Curriculum

• At least half of the units must be from upper-division courses (3000-4000 level).
• At least half of the units must be taken at Cal Poly (in residence).
• No more than one-third of the units will be taken with credit-no credit grading (CR/NC), not counting courses with mandatory CR/NC. Departments may further limit CR/NC grading if desired.
• A minimum 2.0 GPA is required in all units counted for completion of the minor.