The aim is to enhance students' abilities to create and apply knowledge within organizational settings. Students will conduct projects in cooperation with agencies or organizations to gain experience in planning, public involvement strategies, impact mitigation, program development and policy implementation. Class activity is discussion oriented with assigned topic leadership by the students, instructor and guest speakers. This course emphasizes topics relating to turfgrass management practices in tropical climates. It is designed to familiarize students with the specific characteristics of turf and the turfgrass environment, and provide practical information on how to manage both.
Strong emphasis is placed on management strategies designed for local conditions.
This course focuses on the integration of ecological theory with vegetation management and includes aspects of horticulture, landscape design, recreation studies, planning and financial management. This course emphasizes the use and management of indigenous and introduced vegetation in the public landscape and explores both scientific and philosophical ideas on reasons for undertaking certain practices. This course focuses on various management practices and technologies dealing with handling, storage, and conversion of animal waste and plant by-products to useful energy, animal feed, and fertilizer. Recycling and processing methods such as drying, rendering, composting, fermentation, extruding, and bio-gas production are also covered. This course presents an examination of tropical agricultural systems, environmental impacts and problems from an ecological perspective.