FdSc Horticulture

Year 1

Core modules

• Personal and Employability Skills Development (CORC1013C)

  This module is designed to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop themselves in terms of their personal and employability skills.

• Applied Horticultural Practices (CORR130)

  A practical module that looks at the main skills required by a horticulturalist such identification, ground preparation and propagation.

• Botany and Plant Physiology (CORR146)

  This module will enable the student to research and understand all the processes and roles of plant tissues in healthy plant growth and development.

• Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (CORR147)

  This module focuses on the role of soil as a rooting medium and the importance of mineral nutrients in plant growth.

Optional modules

• Sustainable Farming and Growing Principles, Standards, Systems and Methods (CORR101)

• Sustainable Land Management and Conservation (CORR102)

• Ethnobotany and Sustainable Development (CORR111)

  Ethnobotany is the study of plants used by specific cultures for a number of reasons. It draws upon studies of botany, anthropology, photochemistry, sociology, medicine as well as agriculture.

• Biogeography and Plant Environment Interactions (CORR148)

  This provide students with an understanding of plant interaction with their environment and climatic constraints to their distribution.

• Landscape Design (FHOR105)

  This module introduces students to the principles of Landscape design with specific reference to Garden / Domestic Design. It develops the skills required to evaluate a site and produce design plans for its future development.

• Plant Use in Design (FHOR106)

  This module develops design skills to create style and atmosphere within a garden/landscape situation using plants.

• Horticultural Technologies (FHOR109)

• International Horticulture (FHOR110)

• Mechanisation and Crop Establishment (FHOR112)

• Organic and Low Input Production (FHOR113)

Final year

Core modules

• Research Project (CORR2000B)

  The opportunity to carry out an individual piece of research or survey work, with the support of teaching staff. The module commences with a series of sessions covering project design and appropriate data analysis techniques.

• Crop Protection (CORR2009)

  This module allows the student to research and familiarise themselves with the wide range of pests, diseases and other pathogens that affect plants in order to be able to predict infestations and formulate control measures.

• Plant Taxonomy, Classification and Genetics (FHOR200)

  The Module covers the various methods used to classify and name plants. It coves the evolution of plant forms and flower structures and leads onto genetics and the breeding of new cultivars.

Optional modules

• Plant Conservation and Collections (CORR201)

  Plant conservation is increasing important as a means of reducing extinction rates amongst plant species. This module looks at modern plant conservation and, in particular the importance of collections.

• Ornamental Nursery Stock Production (CORR2010)

  A review of the containerised and open group production of plants within the Hardy Ornamental Nursery Stock Industry (HONS).

• Planning Organic and/or Low-Input Crop Production (CORR202)

• Marketing Horticultural Products (CORR203)

• Landscape Studies (CORR211)

  The History of Landscape Design from 1500 to the present day, documenting the main design movements and the noted designers of each period. The influence design has had on land and garden management and the current practice of design restoration and management.

• Applied Landscape Construction (CORR212)

  This module allows the opportunity for students to apply the knowledge gained in Landscape Construction.

• Mainstream and Alternative Cropping (CORR213)

  This module is designed to develop the student's understanding of conventional production techniques of traditionally grown crops, and investigate new merging crops and production cycles.

• Garden and Landscape History (FHOR201)

  This module examines concepts in the development of garden and landscape from the past to the present day. It links to a consideration of conservation in restoration and individual styles both personal and regional (local and international).

• Business Management (FHOR202)

• Ecology (FHOR203)

  An introduction to the concept of ecological process and factors that aims to generate environmental awareness within a horticultural framework.

• Advanced Ethno-Botany and Land Use Policy (FHOR208)

  This module builds on the introduction to ethno-botany studied at stage 1 as well as investigating land use policy.

• Data Analysis and Research Methods (FHOR209)

  This module is designed to develop the student's knowledge of application of statistics to the planning and analysis of biological experiments.

• Crop Maintenance and Harvesting (FHOR212)

• Landscape and Amenity Management (FHOR215)

• Domestic Production and Markets (FHOR216)

• Hunters and Collectors: History of Plant Collection, Naming and Classification (FHOR231)