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Providing
innovative teaching, research, and outreach in the art and science
of horticulture.
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Environmental Nursery Production Practices
HS 590n
- 3 hrs credit
- Instructor: Dr. Ted Bilderback
- Fall Semester 2003 Thursday 2:00pm-5:00 pm
- This course will be a DELTA course offered as a Televideo Conference
course.
- Dr. Ted Bilderback will teach this course from a Televideo Conference
room in the Butler Communication Services Building on campus in Raleigh.
Participants may attend class at this location if it is convenient.
Other remote sites will be selected depending upon response
from interested agents and other participants wishing to enroll in
the course.
- If you are interested in this nursery crops course please reply
and suggest the site where you would prefer to travel for course participation.
- The course will include lectures and assigned readings available
on line for approximately 10 cultural topics. Weekly quizzes
will be taken on line prior to Thursday class meetings, therefore
allowing discussion on the previous lecture and previous assigned
readings each week. PowerPoint lectures will be followed by class
discussion based upon information presented and assigned readings
for the current topic. An attempt will made each week to develop
opposing views or approaches to each topic and groups will be assigned
to support each view. Participation in discussions will
be expected.
- Field trips involving visits to commercial wholesale nurseries to
document best management practices used, assessment of potential environmental
impacts and possible measures to reduce environmental risk will be
assigned as a project.
- Travel assistance for agents/state employees that require overnight
accomodations may be available.
- The course will be offered for a graduate credit grade (alternatively
it can be enrolled as credit/no credit).
- Ted .E. Bilderback, Professor and Extension Nursery Specialist
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