Horticultural Science and Landscape Architecture

Introduction to Horticultural Science:

The field of horticultural science and engineering is a branch of agriculture that encompasses the knowledge, technology, and art of producing, cultivating, improving, and marketing plants and horticultural products. Plants and horticultural products include fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants, as well as medicinal and spice plants. The most important feature of most horticultural products that distinguishes them from agricultural, forest, and rangeland products is that they are usually used by humans fresh or with minimal change and transformation.

Necessity and Importance:

Education in the field of horticultural science and engineering is to train experts who are equipped with up-to-date knowledge and can effectively establish, maintain, and develop horticultural products with an emphasis on environmental protection in order to increase the quality and quantity of products.

Graduates of this field can play their role and ability in the following cases.

- Ability to design, create, organize and manage units producing various horticultural products

- As an expert and planner in various fields of horticulture in executive units

- As an expert and lecturer in agricultural education centers and cooperation in research affairs in research units of the country

Introduction to the field of horticultural and green space sciences:

The field of horticultural and green space sciences (landscape engineering) is an interdisciplinary specialty (horticultural sciences and architecture) that includes the knowledge, technology and art of designing green spaces, cultivating and maintaining plants in these spaces. Green spaces include parks and gardens and all green areas that are used to beautify and improve the quality of human life.

Necessity and importance:

Education in the field of horticultural and green space sciences is to train experts who can plan and take action to identify the desired environmental conditions of cities and industrial areas and to use the principles of design and management of green spaces to improve the quality of such environments. In addition to beautifying the environment, they improve human living conditions in stressful environments of industrial societies.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Horticulture and Green Space Sciences program play their roles and abilities in the following cases:

1- As a designer, manager, supervisor and implementer of green spaces and grounds in municipalities, the Parks and Urban Green Spaces Organization and other public and private institutions

2- As a specialist expert and planner in various fields in executive units such as the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, the Deputy for Strategic Planning and Supervision (Planning and Management Organization)

3- As an interdisciplinary collaborator with the fields of architecture and urban development and horticultural sciences, in the offices of architectural consulting engineers in the specialization of planting design, urban green spaces, complex areas, recreation areas, forest parks, campsites and camps and other special parks

4- As an instructor in agricultural high schools and research implementer in relevant research units