Ornamentals, Landscape and Turf (Certificate)

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Ornamentals, Landscape and Turf
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Online 12 cr

The program offers a selection of courses focusing on the turf and landscape aspects of horticulture.

Description

The Ornamentals, Landscape, and Turf graduate certificate is a 12 credit hour program designed for Extension horticulturists; golf course superintendents; municipal parks' employees; landscape maintenance professionals; and individuals working in nursery/landscape-oriented garden centers. Core courses provide a solid science background, enabling students to better understand how to manage turf and ornamental areas. This basic knowledge is then interwoven with situation-specific disease, weed, and insect classes to help practitioners advance their management knowledge.

All coursework for this certificate is completed online through Great Plains IDEA consortium.

Courses

Applying for Admission

Standard requirements for all graduate programs

  • Application for Admission with $50 non-refundable application fee.
  • Transcripts (unofficial): Uploaded as part of application form.

    If International: Uploads must include all college- or university-level transcripts or mark sheets (records of courses and marks earned), with certificates, diplomas, and degrees plus certified English translations.

    After admission: Official documents are required from all students who are admitted and enroll. Photocopies of certified records are not acceptable. International students enrolled in other U.S. institutions may have certified copies of all foreign records sent directly to the Office of Graduate Studies by their current school’s registrar office.

  • If applicant’s native language is not English, verification of English proficiency is required.

    When sending TOEFL scores, our institution code is 6877 and a department code is not needed.

  • If applicant is not a US citizen and expects an F or J visa: financial information.
  • Applicants must also fulfill any additional requirements the department specifies at the time of application.

Additional requirements specific to this program

  • Academics: GPA of 3.0 or higher (undergraduate and/or graduate)
  • Resume/CV
  • Personal Statement: In 1-2 pages, your statement should address the following: 1) your professional goals and career aspirations and specifically what you plan to do with your degree; 2) background experiences, events, and/or education that have influenced your professional goals; 3) how enrolling in this program in this department at Nebraska will assist you in meeting your professional goals.
  • Additional Information: Enter a description of any original creative tasks or output related to your discipline.
  • Three letters of recommendation

Certificate programs are not considered degree programs, additionally, coursework for this program is delivered primarily online, so international students should be aware that admission to this program is ineligible for immigration forms for an F-1 student visa.

Program Faculty

Blaine Johnson (bio)

Plant Breeding, Design and Analysis of Field Crop Experiments, Plant Breeding of Hybrid Crops, Teaching Applied Plant Breeding

Clyde Ogg (bio)

Pesticide Safety Education

Alexander Pavlista (bio)

Potato Production and Pest Management, Potato Physiology, Plant Growth Regulators

Chris Proctor (bio)

Weed Management

Paul Read (bio)

Fruits, Woody Plant Tissue Culture, Herbaceous Crops

Daren Redfearn (bio)

Integrated Forage, Crop, and Beef Systems

Terrance Riordan (bio)

Breeding and Development of Turfgrasses, Fertilizer, Pesticides and Energy

Leah Sandall (bio)

Agronomy and Plant Science

Dipak Santra (bio)

Develop and Enhance Germplasm and Cultivars of New and Existing Alternative Crops for Sustainable Production under Dry Land Farming Conditions in Northern High Plains of the USA

Walter Schacht (bio)

Plant-Grazing Interactions, Drought and Defoliation

Daniel Schachtman (bio)

Molecular Physiology

James Schnable (bio)

Computational Biology

Charles Shapiro (bio)

Cropping Systems, Soil and Crop Nutrient Management

Brandi Sigmon (bio)

Plant Evolution and Development, Comparative Genomics

Meghan Sindelar (bio)

Soil Science and Agronomy

Edward Souza (bio)

Global Wheat Breeding

Mitchell Stephenson (bio)

Range and Forage

Anne Streich (bio)

Turfgrass & Landscape Management

Kim Todd (bio)

Landscape, Containerized Ornamental Grasses

Dirac Twidwell (bio)

Rangeland Ecology and Management Fire Ecology

Carlos Urrea Florez (bio)

Breeding of Dry Bean Varieties That are Resistant to Rust, White Mold, Common Bacteria Blight, and Root Rots

Jerry Volesky (bio)

Grazing, Sandhills Rangeland

Richard Waldren (bio)

Plant Science Teaching

Harkamal Walia (bio)

Crop Responses to Drought, Heat, and Salt Stress

Steven Waller (bio)

Range Management and Improvement

Sam Wortman (bio)

Agronomy/Horticulture, Interactions between plants and the environment, Local, Urban, and Organic Fruit and Vegetable Production, Novel Management Tactics for Improved Sustainability of Specialty Crop Farms

Charles Wortmann (bio)

No-Till Systems, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Management, Biosolids Management

Haishun Yang (bio)

Crop Modeler

Melinda Yerka (bio)

Plant Genetics

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