I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Vegetable Diseases
2. Course Prefix & Number:
SCMT 2363
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
4. Course Description:
In this course, students will acquire the skills needed to identify and control diseases that occur in a diverse cropping system. Students will learn to differentiate fungal diseases from viral and bacterial diseases and learn common cultural practices that will control most diseases.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
SCMT 2363 - Vegetable Diseases
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
SCMT 2363 - Vegetable Diseases
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate reading and listening skills |
Identify diseases using available print and internet resources |
| Assess alternative solutions to a problem |
Determine whether cultural practices, varietal selection or chemicals are the best way to control a disease |
| Analyze and follow a sequence of operations |
Know the series of cultural controls required to control certain diseases |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Differentiate between abiotic and biotic diseases
- Identify major characteristics of fungal diseases
- Identify major traits of viral diseases
- Know which diseases are best controlled with cultural controls and crop rotations
- Know which diseases are best controlled with fungicides and bactericides
- Give examples of insect vectors
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Biotic diseases that cause crop losses
- Fungal diseases
- Bacterial diseases
- Viral diseases
- Abiotic diseases
- Differentiating between biotic and abiotic diseases
- ironchlorosis
- The disease triangle
- Environment
- Pathogen
- Host
- Disease cycles
- Primary infections
- Secondary infections
- Overwintering sites for different diseases
- Soil born diseases
- Airborne diseases
- Disease prevention and integrated pest management
- Cultural controls and crop rotations
- Resistant varieties
- Chemical control
- Controlling insect vectors
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Vegetable Diseases
2. Course Prefix & Number:
SCMT 2363
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
4. Course Description:
In this course, students will acquire the skills needed to identify and control diseases that occur in a diverse cropping system. Students will learn to differentiate fungal diseases from viral and bacterial diseases and learn common cultural practices that will control most diseases.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
SCMT 2363 - Vegetable Diseases
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
SCMT 2363 - Vegetable Diseases
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
III. Course Purpose
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate reading and listening skills |
Identify diseases using available print and internet resources |
| Analyze and follow a sequence of operations |
Know the series of cultural controls required to control certain diseases |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Differentiate between abiotic and biotic diseases
- Identify major characteristics of fungal diseases
- Identify major traits of viral diseases
- Know which diseases are best controlled with cultural controls and crop rotations
- Know which diseases are best controlled with fungicides and bactericides
- Give examples of insect vectors
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Biotic diseases that cause crop losses
- Fungal diseases
- Bacterial diseases
- Viral diseases
- Abiotic diseases
- Differentiating between biotic and abiotic diseases
- ironchlorosis
- The disease triangle
- Environment
- Pathogen
- Host
- Disease cycles
- Primary infections
- Secondary infections
- Overwintering sites for different diseases
- Soil born diseases
- Airborne diseases
- Disease prevention and integrated pest management
- Cultural controls and crop rotations
- Resistant varieties
- Chemical control
- Controlling insect vectors