HORT 106 A - The Sustainable Home Garden

Campus: Urbana-Champaign

Description:

Create inviting and sustainable indoor and outdoor living spaces with plants, whether your landscape is several acres or a few containers on an urban balcony. This blended-format class meets 1 hour per week for lecture and discussion with additional instruction presented through independent learning activities including virtual field trips, on-line lectures, and instructional videos. Learn the fundamentals of environmentally sound resource use when designing with and maintaining flowering, fruit and vegetable plants, lawns, trees and shrubs around your home. Become a savvy horticultural consumer and develop a healthy lifestyle that supports positive physical and mental well-being by including greenspace activities in your daily life. Course Information: Additional fees may apply. See Class Schedule. Credit is not given for both HORT 106 and HORT 100.

Special Instructions:

There will be two optional greenhouse labs (dates TBD).

Option 1

Course Level: Undergraduate

Credit: 3

Term(s): Fall