Description
Designed for Latino employees who have satisfied all the requirements of the first-year program (AGRI 005). Offers in-depth instruction in tree fruit production, applied English terminology and math. Includes presentations of subjects concerning everyday life and citizenship.
Grading Basis
Pass / No Pass
Prerequisites
Course Learning Outcomes
Core Topics
- Geographical advantages of NCW
- Understanding the tree fruit industry
- Tree fruit entomology (pesticide credits)
- Plant physiology
- Integrated pest management (pesticide credits)
- Root systems
- Soil and water relations
- Orchard record keeping
- Maturity concepts
- Public speaking
- Write sentences and short compositions using standard English
- Understand spoken English
- Converse in English with class mates, instructors and employers
- Demonstrate ability to compute whole numbers in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in computation and word problems
- Introduction to working with fractions
- Keyboarding and basic computer program functions
- Introduction to the internet
- Understanding and working within cultural differences
- Discussing various subjects that arise which are important to the class