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Fruit and Vegetable Management (120 Credits)
The Fruit and Vegetable Management major offers specialization in the science and practice of growing, harvesting, handling, storing, processing, and marketing tree fruits, small fruits, and vegetables. Students will learn the most efficient and sustainable management practices involving state-of-the-art production systems for the diverse fruit and vegetable crops produced in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Graduates can look forward to careers as growers and farm managers, production field advisors, sales representatives in the horticultural services industry, managers of produce firms, and brokers and marketers of fruit and vegetable products.
| First Year | |
| First Term | Credits |
| CHEM 101 [PSCI] or 105 [PSCI] | 4 |
| ECONS 101 [SSCI] or 102 [SSCI] | 3 |
| HISTORY 105 [ROOT] | 3 |
| HORT / CROP SCI 102 | 3 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| CHEM 102 or 106 | 4 |
| COM 102 [COMM] or H D 205 [COMM] | 3 or 4 |
| ENGLISH 101 [WRTG] | 3 |
| HORT / CROP SCI 202 | 4 |
| Humanities [HUM] | 3 |
| Second Year | |
| First Term | Credits |
| BIOLOGY 106 [BSCI] or 120 [BSCI] | 4 |
| Creative & Professional Arts [ARTS] | 3 |
| SOIL SCI 201 | 3 |
| STAT 212 [QUAN], MATH 140 [QUAN], 171 [QUAN], or 202 [QUAN] | 3 or 4 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| BIOLOGY 107 | 4 |
| HORT 251 | 4 |
| Sustainability Elective1 | 3 |
| Electives | 6 |
| Complete Writing Portfolio | |
| Third Year | |
| First Term | Credits |
| Diversity [DIVR] | 3 |
| ENTOM 343 [M] | 3 |
| HORT 310 | 3 |
| HORT 313 | 3 |
| Pest Management Elective2 | 3 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| ENTOM 351 | 3 |
| Environmental HORT Elective3 | 3 |
| HORT 4164 | 3 |
| Electives | 6 |
| Third Term | Credits |
| (Summer Session) HORT 399 | 1 |
| Fourth Year | |
| First Term | Credits |
| BIOLOGY 420 | 3 |
| HORT 320 | 3 |
| HORT 418 [M] | 3 |
| PL P 300 or PL P 429 | 2 or 3 |
| Sustainability Elective1 | 3 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| 400-500-level Seminar in CAHNRS | 1 |
| Advanced Fruit or Vegetable Elective5 | 3 |
| HORT 425 [M] [CAPS] | 3 |
| IPM 452 | 2 |
| Pest Management Elective2 | 3 |
| SoilS 441 | 3 |
Footnotes
| 1 | Sustainability Elective (6 credits): BIOLOGY 330, 372; ENVR SCI 101, 285, 469; SOIL SCI 101, 480; and/or consult with your advisor. |
| 2 | Pest Management Elective (6 credits): CROP SCI 305; PL P 300, 429; and/or consult with your advisor. |
| 3 | Environmental Horticulture Electives (3 credits): HORT 231, 232, 331, 332, 340, 357; and/or consult with your advisor. |
| 4 | CROP SCI 411 [M] can be taken in the fall as an alternative to HORT 416. |
| 5 | Advanced Fruit or Vegetable Elective (at least 1 course): HORT 413, 421 [M], or 490. |