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Homepage: www.temple.edu/ambler/la-hort
For admissions and general program information:
267-468-8100
ambler@temple.edu
For specific department information:
267-468-8181
267-468-8188 (Fax)
la.hort@temple.edu
Horticulture is the profession that nurtures, produces, installs, and maintains the built landscape, and protects, restores, and manages existing and natural landscape resources.
The Temple horticulture curriculum is built on a strong scientific foundation and includes both technical course work and hands-on learning experience. In order to broaden and deepen your knowledge and understanding of the natural and cultural world, you will also receive solid education in the liberal arts.
Our unique curriculum is one of the few undergraduate programs in which horticulture and landscape architecture are integrated. Our goal is to provide you with an understanding of the full range of the landscape process, which includes design, plant production, installation, and management of the urban and suburban landscape.
In your classes at Temple, you will learn the relationships between horticulture, technology, and natural ecological processes, and develop a responsible horticultural approach toward the environment. With this knowledge, you can help to eliminate many outmoded, environmentally damaging practices such as over-dependence on pesticides, herbicides, and irrigation, and use of harmful, invasive plants.
You may find exciting professional opportunities in landscape contracting, restoration, and management; wholesale or retail nurseries; urban forestry; floriculture; public horticulture; garden restoration; horticultural therapy; and interior plantscaping. Research, teaching and extension are also rewarding areas within the horticulture profession.
For more information on the Bachelor of Science in Horticulture, click here.
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