Horticulture, College Credit Certificate (C.C.C.)
Horticulturists apply their knowledge, skills, and technologies used to grow intensively produced plants for human food and non-food uses and for personal or social needs. Their work involves plant propagation and cultivation with the aim of improving plant growth, yields, quality, nutritional value, and resistance to insects, diseases, and environmental stresses.
The horticulture certificate instructs you in the cultivation of all edible plants and non-food crops such as turf and ornamental plants and trees. It also includes plant conservation, landscape design and restoration, golf course maintenance, residential lawn maintenance, and arboriculture.
Florida Gateway College Online
Students must meet all testing requirements for admittance to FGC.
Classes are delivered online.
Tuition: $3,099.60
Lab fees: $300.00
Books: $150.00
Graduates of this program work as gardeners, growers, therapists, designers, and technical advisors in the food and non-food sectors of horticulture.
All courses taken in this program articulate to the Associate of Science in Environmental Science degree for further educational opportunities.
This is an excellent certificate for those who already work or aspire to work in the horticulture industry. These industries include plant and tree nurseries, farming, golf course maintenance, lawn care, and both residential and commercial gardening.
To be eligible for this program a student must:
This certificate consists of six courses for a total of nineteen credits.
The courses offered for this certificate are:
This program is 100% online for 2 semesters and has 40+ average students enrolled each year.
This program provides experiential learning for industry certifications.
Gold Standard Career Pathways Statewide Articulation Agreement
