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Degree Plan Requirements -120 semester hours       

The Texas Common Course Number, if available is noted in parenthesis after the Texas Tech University course.

General Course Requirements 48 Hours

ENGLISH CHEMISTRY
ENGL 1301Essentials of College Rhetoric ** CHEM 1307 Principles of Chemistry I (CHEM 1411) †
ENGL 1302 Advanced College Rhetoric ** CHEM 1107 Principles of Chemistry I-lab (CHEM 1411) †
ENGL 2311 Introduction to Technical Writing ** CHEM 1308 Principles of Chemistry II (CHEM 1412) †
  CHEM 1108 Principles of Chemistry I-lab (CHEM 1412) †
HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE
HIST 2300 History of the U.S. to 1877 ** POLS 1301 (GOVT 2301) American Government Organization ***
HIST 2301 History of the U.S. Since 1877 ** POLS 1301 (GOVT 2301) American Government Organization ***
MATH COMMUNICATIONS
MATH 1320 College Algebra *** COMS 2300 Public Speaking (COMS 1315) ***
MATH 2300 Statistical Methods (MATH 1342) *** OR
  COMS 3358 Business & Professional Speaking (COMS 1321) ***
BIOLOGY MISC.
BIOL 1401 Biology of Plants † Humanities, 3 semester hours ‡
  Foreign Language, 1 year or 2 years high school credit
  Visual Performing Arts, 3 semester hours ‡
  Multicultural Requirement, 3 semester hours ‡

Major Course Requirements 40 Semester Hours

PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCE
PSS 1411 (AGRI 1415) Principles of Horticulture *
PSS 2312 Plant Propagation *
PSS 2313 Herbaceous Plant Materials *
PSS 2330 Urban Soils *
PSS 2401 Introductory Entomology
PSS 3317 Interior Plants *
PSS 3323 Crop Growth *
PSS 3421 Genetics *
PSS 4313 Arboriculture *
PSS 4314 Garden Center Management *
PSS 4335 Soil Fertility Management *
PSS 4411 Greenhouse Crop Production *
PSS 4421 Principles of Weed Science *
PSS 5415 Advanced Greenhouse Crop Production *
AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS
AAEC 2305 Cooperative in Agriculture
OR
ECO 2301 (ECO 2302) Principles of Micro Economics *

PSS Electives, 15 Semester Hours Required From The Following Options

PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCE
PSS 1321 Agronomic Plant Science *
PSS 3324 Seed Science *
PSS 4000 Internship *
PSS 4001 Problems Management *
PSS 4330 Environmental Soil Chemistry *
PSS 4337 Environmental Soil Science *
17 Hours Directed Electives:
Allowed from the following areas of study: BA*,AAEC*, FS*, LARC, MBIO, PSS*, PSY*, RWFM, SOC*.

* Semester based online courses available through distance learning.

** Non-semester based online courses available through distance learning.

*** Non-semester based print version courses available through distance learning.

† Course must be taken face-to-face at Texas Tech University or transferred from another local institution.

‡ Choose from the core curriculum.

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