I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Pest Identification and Control
2. Course Prefix & Number:
SCMT 1117
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
4. Course Description:
This cource introduces the student to Integrated Pest Management techniques. Students will learn how to identify the most common insects, diseases and weeds that threaten their crops, and learn to choose appropriate cultural practices and pesticides for each pest.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
SCMT 1117 - Pest Identification and Control
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
SCMT 1117 - Pest Identification and Control
There are no corequisites for this course.
III. Course Purpose
Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
Speciality Crops Management, Diploma
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Assess alternative solutions to a problem |
Determine if cultural or chemical controls is the best way to control a specific insect pest, weed or disease |
| Utilize appropriate technology |
Determine the best equipment to apply pesticides or for cultural controls |
| Apply ethical principles in decision-making |
Analyze methods for increasing beneficial insects and reducing erosion |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Identify most common diseases attacking their crops
- Identify most common insects attacking their crops
- Identify the weeds in their fields that can threaten their crop
- Choose best equipment for pest control
- Describe the relationship between weather patterns and disease pressure
- Describe the differences between insect, disease and environmental injury
- Describe the benefits of culture versus chemical control for insects, diseases and weeds
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Integrated Pest Management
- Practices that can be used in IPM
- Cultural controls
- Situations when chemical controls are allowed
- Equipment for controlling insects, diseases and weeds
- Common insects in fruit and vegetable crops
- Harmful insects
- Beneficial insects
- Sources of the most common insect pests
- Insects with one generation per season versus those with multiple generations
- Economic thresholds for major insect pests
- Chemical control of insects
- Cultural control of insects
- Common diseases in fruit and vegetable crops
- Weather patterns and disease pressure
- Cultural controls for major diseases
- Chemical control of diseases
- Common weeds in Minnesota
- Annual and their control
- Perennial weeds and their control
- Differences between grass and broadleaf weed
- Pre-emergent herbicides
- Post-emergent weed controls
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Pest Identification and Control
2. Course Prefix & Number:
SCMT 1117
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
4. Course Description:
This cource introduces the student to Integrated Pest Management techniques. Students will learn how to identify the most common insects, diseases and weeds that threaten their crops, and learn to choose appropriate cultural practices and pesticides for each pest.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
SCMT 1117 - Pest Identification and Control
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
SCMT 1117 - Pest Identification and Control
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
Speciality Crops Management, Diploma
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Utilize appropriate technology |
Determine the best equipment to apply pesticides or for cultural controls |
| Apply ethical principles in decision-making |
Analyze methods for increasing beneficial insects and reducing erosion |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Identify most common diseases attacking their crops
- Identify most common insects attacking their crops
- Identify the weeds in their fields that can threaten their crop
- Choose best equipment for pest control
- Describe the relationship between weather patterns and disease pressure
- Describe the differences between insect, disease and environmental injury
- Describe the benefits of culture versus chemical control for insects, diseases and weeds
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Integrated Pest Management
- Practices that can be used in IPM
- Cultural controls
- Situations when chemical controls are allowed
- Equipment for controlling insects, diseases and weeds
- Common insects in fruit and vegetable crops
- Harmful insects
- Beneficial insects
- Sources of the most common insect pests
- Insects with one generation per season versus those with multiple generations
- Economic thresholds for major insect pests
- Chemical control of insects
- Cultural control of insects
- Common diseases in fruit and vegetable crops
- Weather patterns and disease pressure
- Cultural controls for major diseases
- Chemical control of diseases
- Common weeds in Minnesota
- Annual and their control
- Perennial weeds and their control
- Differences between grass and broadleaf weed
- Pre-emergent herbicides
- Post-emergent weed controls