Office Phone: Weather line: 540-2515

Final Exam:

Holidays:

Date & Time:

Credit Hours: 3 semester hours - 3 hours lecture/lab

Required

Textbook: The Standard Pesticide User’s Guide, by Bohmont, 5^th ed., Colorado State Press.

Course Description: Identification of horticultural pests as well as an introduction to pesticides, manufacture regulations, marketing and use of pesticides, structure, mode of action, toxicity, degradation, safety, and environmental impact of commonly used pesticides. Biological, chemical and non-chemical approaches and their effectiveness in controlling pests. (This course is not designed for transfer.)

Course Objectives:

- Help students identify the different types of horticulture pest

- Help students assess the value of pesticide in the past, present, and future

- Teach students basic pesticide terminology and provision of FIFRA

- Determine how pesticides can improve the environmental quality for humans, their animals and plants

- Develop an understanding of what a pesticide is and how it is cleared for use

- Examine pesticide safety, toxicity, and hazards

- Examine the way pesticides kill (mode of action)

- Examine control methods including chemical, biological, and non-chemical methods

- Help students understand integrated pest management (IPM) and why it is so critical in a control system

- Look into the future of new product for pest control including biorationals

- Prepare students to successfully complete requirements for pesticide certification

Course Outline:

Horticultural pest identification

Pesticide history, terminology, and pesticides as chemical tools

Pesticide labeling requirement

Chemical and vocabulary of pesticides

Formulations of pesticides and adjuvants

Toxicity and hazards of pesticides

The law and pesticides (FIFRA provision)

Pesticide safety

Mode of action of pesticides

Pesticides and crop protection

Integrated pest management (IPM)

Pesticide transport, storage, decontamination and disposal

Pesticide and environmental consideration

Grading Policy:

3 Hour Tests 60%

Lab Project 10%

1 Final Exam 30%

Grade Scale

A 90 – 100

B 80 – 89

C 70 – 79

D 60 – 69

F Below 60

Other Policies

See the current CoSCC Catalog for policies on attendance, discipline, ethics, etc.

The last day to drop is November 4, 2004.

Grades

Grades are not mailed to students. You must access grades through Web for Students www.columbiastate.edu five (5) working days after grades are required in Admissions. Students needing official copies of grades must request it in writing from the Office of Admissions and Records. Call the transcript information line at 931/540-2550 for detailed instructions. Students may print a copy of their grades from Web for Students.

Emergencies

In the case of an emergency, all students are to follow the directions given by the instructor.

*In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, students are encouraged to register with the office of Counseling/Disability Services for possible assistance with accommodations. It is the student’s responsibility to voluntarily and confidentially provide appropriate documentation regarding the nature and extent of a disability. Students requesting special accommodations are (strongly) encouraged to contact the office of Counseling/Disability Services at the beginning of the semester.