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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 |
| Communication [COMM] or Written Communication [WRTG] (COM 102 [COMM] or H D 205 [COMM] recommended) | 3 or 4 |
| HISTORY 105 [ROOT] | 3 |
| HORT / CROP SCI 102 | 3 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| CHEM 102 or 106 | 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 |
| Arts [ARTS] | 3 |
| Diversity [DIVR] | 3 |
| MATH 140 [QUAN], 171 [QUAN], 202 [QUAN], or STAT 212 [QUAN], | 3 or 4 |
| SOIL SCI 201 | 3 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| BIOLOGY 107 | 4 |
| ECONS 101 [SSCI] or 102 [SSCI] | 3 |
| HORT 351 | 4 |
| Sustainability Elective1 | 2 or 3 |
| Electives | 3 |
| Complete Writing Portfolio | |
| Third Year | |
| First Term | Credits |
| BIOLOGY 420 | 3 |
| ENTOM 343 [M] | 3 |
| HORT 310 | 3 |
| HORT 320 | 3 |
| Electives | 3 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| ENTOM 351 | 3 |
| Environmental HORT Elective2 | 3 |
| SOIL SCI 441 | 3 |
| Electives | 6 |
| Third Term | Credits |
| (Summer Session) HORT 399 | 1 |
| Fourth Year | |
| First Term | Credits |
| HORT 313 | 3 |
| HORT 418 [M] | 3 |
| Pest Management Elective3 | 2 or 3 |
| PL P 300 or PL P 429 | 2 or 3 |
| Electives | 5 |
| Second Term | Credits |
| Advanced Fruit or Vegetable Elective4 | 3 |
| HORT 4165 | 3 |
| HORT 425 [M] [CAPS] | 3 |
| Electives | 6 |
Footnotes
| 1 | Sustainability Elective courses (2-3 credits): BIOLOGY 330, 372 [M]; SOE 110; SOIL SCI 101, 302, 480; or as approved by advisor. |
| 2 | Environmental Horticulture Elective courses (3 credits): HORT 330, 331, 332, 357; or as approved by advisor. |
| 3 | Pest Management Elective courses (2-3 credits): CROP SCI 305; IPM 452, PL P 300, 429; or as approved by advisor. Courses cannot be used to fulfill more than one major requirement. |
| 4 | Advanced Fruit or Vegetable Elective courses (3 or 4 credits): HORT 345, 421, 430, or 480, VIT ENOL 414, or as approved by advisor. |
| 5 | CROP SCI 411 [M] can be taken in the fall as an alternative to HORT 416. |