HORT 435

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Urban Food Production

Credit: 3 hours.

Explore opportunities and challenges for maximizing the productivity and sustainability of urban food production systems, considering agricultural, environmental, energy, social, and economic issues. Students will examine the science and practice of urban agriculture through scientific and popular literature, case studies, online discussion, and service-learning opportunities. Production systems covered will include both outdoor (e.g., vacant lot urban farms) and controlled environment (e.g., hydroponics and aquaponics) agriculture.

3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours. Prerequisite: HORT 100 or CPSC 112 or equivalent introductory course in plant science.

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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	63675	Online	AL1	6:00PM -8:30PM	T	n.a.	Wortman, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Info: Online scheduled class sessions require each student have high speed internet access and either a headset with microphone or an external microphone and speakers so they may participate in the class discussions. 1) Cockrall-King, J. 2012. Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution. Prometheus Books, New York. 2) Resh, H. M. 2012. Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower, 7th Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
	63649	Online	XM	6:00PM -8:30PM	T	n.a.	Wortman, S	Part of Term: XM Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Fee: Graduate - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $394.00 per Bill Hour, Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign OCE Tuition $359.00 per Bill Hour, and OCE Fees $50.00 per Bill Hour. Section Info: Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) restrictions and assessments apply, see http://www.citl.illinois.edu. Online scheduled class sessions require that each student have high speed internet access and either a headset with microphone or an external microphone and speakers so they may participate in the class discussions. 1) Cockrall-King, J. 2012. Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution. Prometheus Books, New York. 2) Resh, H. M. 2012. Hydroponic Food Production: A Definitive Guidebook for the Advanced Home Gardener and the Commercial Hydroponic Grower, 7th Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Crop Sciences -UIUC, MS:Crop Sciences -UIUC, MS:FSci &Hmn Nutrition -UIUC, MS: Agricultural Educ -UIUC, MS: Agricultural Educatn -UIUC, MS:Nat Res Env Sci -UIUC, MS:Nat Res & Envrn Sci -UIUC, NDEG:Grad Nondegree-CE-UIUC, or NDEG:Undergrad Nondeg-CE-UIUC.