Graduate Courses

Selected Graduate Courses

The Horticulture Graduate Program curriculum offers considerable flexibility in student course work. This list is not inclusive as other courses are available in related disciplines, i.e. biochemistry, plant pathology, etc. Courses are chosen based on the student's research interest and desired specialization.

HRT 401 Physiology and Management of Herbaceous Plants

HRT 403 Storage and Handling of Horticultural Crops
HRT 404 Horticulture Management
HRT 407 Horticulture Marketing

PLB 414 Plant Physiology: Metabolism

PLB 415 Plant Physiology: Growth, Development, and the Environment

PLB 434 Plant Structure and Function

HRT 480 Woody Plant Physiology

HRT 853 Plant Mineral Nutrition

HRT 863 Environmental Plant Physiology

BMB 864 Plant Biochemistry

PLB/HRT 865 Plant Growth and Development

HRT 891 Special Topics: Flowers and Flowering;
Advanced Topics in Soil Nitrogen and Carbon; Professional Development in Horticulture

HRT 894 Seminar

Courses offered in Plant Breeding and Genetics

HRT 441 Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

HRT 451 Biotechnology Applications for Plant Breeding and Genetics

HRT 486 Biotechnology in Agriculture: Applications & Ethical Issues

HRT 819 Advanced Plant Breeding

HRT 820 Plant Reproductive Biology and Polyploidy

HRT 821 Crop Evolution

HRT 822 Historical Geography of Crop Plants

HRT 827 Techniques in Cytogenetics

FOR 842 Population Genetics, Genealogy and Genomics

PLB/BMB 856 Plant Molecular Biology

CSS 941 Quantitative Genetics in Plant Breeding

Courses offered in Statistics

STT 464 Statistical Methods for Biologists I

STT 814 Advanced Statistics for Biologists

HRT 870 Techniques of Analyzing Unbalanced Research Data

Additional graduate courses not offered in Horticulture

PLB 405 Plant Pathology
PLB 418 Plant Systematics
PLB 441 Plant Ecology

GEO 402 Agricultural Climatology

CSS 402 Principles of Weed Science
CSS 802 Weed Biology
CSS 805 Herbicide Action and Metabolism
CSS 440 Soil Biophysics
CSS 840 Soil Physics

ENT 404 Fundamentals of Entomology
ENT 848 Biological Control of Insects and Weeds

ESP 801 Physical, Chemical and Biological Processes of the Environment

NSC 830 Nature and Practice of Science
NSC 840 Writing in the Sciences
NSC 870 Teaching College Science

Additional graduate course offered in Landscape Architecture

HRT 816 Environmental Design Theory

Telephone
     517-355-5191 x 1324
FAX
      517-353-0890
Postal address
       Department of Horticulture
       Plant and Soil Sciences Building
       Michigan State University
       East Lansing, MI 48824-1325
Electronic mail
       General Information: hrtgrad@msu.edu