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Updated: 02/2005

EHO 115 - Environmental Horticulture Internship

Course Description

Provides the student with practical experience in an actual job setting. This internship allows the student to become involved in on-the-job environmental horticulture applications that require practice and follow through. Topics include: work ethics, skills, and attitudes; demands of the horticulture industry; horticultural business management; and labor supervision.

 

Competency Areas

Hours

Work Ethics, Skills, and Attitudes          

Class

0

Demands of the Horticulture Industry

D. Lab

0

Horticultural Business Management

P. Lab/O.B.I.

10

Labor Supervision

Credit

3

 

 

 

Prerequisite:

Completion of all essential fundamental courses

Corequisite:

 

 

Course Guide

 

Competency

After completing this section,

the student will:

Hours

Class

D.Lab

P.Lab/

O.B.I.

WORK ETHICS, SKILLS, AND ATTITUDES

0

0

10

Positive work habits

Demonstrate positive work ethics, skills, and attitudes.

 

 

 

 

Demonstrate punctuality.

 

 

 

 

Develop dependable attendance habits.

 

 

 

DEMANDS OF THE HORTICULTURE INDUSTRY

0

0

10

Work requirements

Demonstrate acclimatization to the physical, mobility, and other demands of the environmental horticulture industry.

 

 

 

HORTICULTURAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

0

0

40

Management skills

Demonstrate basic business management skills for the environmental horticultural industry.

 

 

 

Analysis

Analyze all business decisions and procedures observed.

 

 

 

LABOR SUPERVISION

0

0

40

Labor management

Demonstrate adequate supervisory skills for the environmental horticulture industry.

 

 

 

 

Analyze labor management decisions and procedures observed in the environmnetal horticulture industry.

 

 

 

 

Suggested Resources

 

Books

 

None required.