The landscape horticulture specialization is for those who are interested in landscape design, installation, and maintenance. Graduates may become involved in planning and maintaining public, residential, and industrial areas, or in nursery production. Course work in business, plant protection, landscape plant materials, landscape design, plant physiology, general horticulture, nursery management, and soils, helps to provide the broad background needed in these careers. The environmental studies specialization concentrates on environmental problems related to plants and soils. Careers with environmental protection agencies, pollution control boards, and reclamation or natural resource groups are open to graduates.
Courses cover field crops, soils, horticulture, and environmental problems.
Members of the plant and soil science faculty at SIUC have repeatedly been honored nationally for their accomplishments. Our faculty consists of experts in landscape design, greenhouse production, fruit production, ornamental horticulture, turfgrass, plant breeding and genetics, crop production, biotechnology, forage production, crop physiology, plant physiology, weed control, soil physics soil conservation, soil microbiology, soil fertility, and mineland reclamation. These instructors are dedicated to teaching, research, and student development. In fact, every student works directly with a faculty adviser who provides guidance with course selection, career possibilities, and internship opportunities, recommends scholarship possibilities, and offers good collegiate advice. Plant and soil science professors at SIUC are known as top researchers in their fields.