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- Spring 2010 Registration
- NEW CLASS!! - LH057
- Spring 2010 Featured Courses
- Cancelled Classes
- President's Day Holiday
- Saturday Class - Pruning Deciduous Fruit Trees
SPRING 2010 REGISTRATION
Enrollment for the Spring 2010 Semester will end on February 6th. This will also be the last day to change grading options for courses. Remember that all courses going toward a certificate option MUST be taken for a letter grade.
BE SURE TO REFER TO OUR ONLINE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES FIRST. The Schedule of Classes listed in some print versions of Peralta Spring 2010 Catalog are no longer accurate. New students who need help with registration to Merritt College should visit the Merritt College Admissions and Records Office, or visit the Peralta College website.
Peralta College Spring 2010 Academic Calendar
LH057:
Aesthetic & Experiential Dynamics in Landscape Design
Class Code: 25110
Wednesdays, 10am- 2pm
4 Units
This class is geared toward students who have complete LH18A-22A or have professional design experience or education.
This class will explore the process of applying foundational principles of form and composition, visual and sensory dynamics, plant and built material compatibilities, and other creative and artistic elements to address specific aesthetic and compositional issues in landscape design through a number of short targeted projects. Enrollment is limited, if you are interested ENROLL NOW. For more information email instructor Chris Grampp or call (510)-436-2418.
Due to budget constraints faced by the Peralta Community College District, the following courses for the Spring 2010 Schedule have been cancelled:
- LH021 – Horticultural Equipment Ops./Maint./Repair
- LH032 – Designing with Native Plants
- LH035B – Advanced Landscape Design
- LH046 – Cycles of Land Use
- LH048PF – Joinery Structures for the Landscape
- LH055 – History of Gardens & Gardening
- LH205 – All About Roses
- LH206 – Landscape Business Practices
LH248NP: Soil Management of Bay Area Gardens |
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Instructor: Ed Brennan
February 19th to March 26th, 2010 Friday 10:00 am - 2:20 pm Class Code: 24743 This short term, one- unit class comes just in time to prepare your garden beds for spring planting. The course, led by Ed Brennan, will look at common Bay Area soil compositions, water management, soil fertility, analyzing for nutrients, as well as sustainable methods of soil watering, conditioning and fertilizing. The class consists of a lecture and laboratory session, and can be taken for a grade or as credit/no-credit. |
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| LH36: Natural Building | |
Instructor:Marisha Farnsworth
Class Code: 24743 This course focuses on the design and construction of sustainably sourced structures with an emphasis on urban applications. The class meets once a week, and is a mix of both theoretical and practical applications. Each semester the class will take part in a construction project in the greater East Bay community. |
 The outdoor kitchen, with a living roof, is a past project of the Natural Building class. |
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden ... But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
- Thomas Jefferson, Garden Book, 1811
In observation of the President's Day Holiday Merritt College will be closed from Friday, February 12th until Monday, February 15th. Peralta College campuses, includng the Landscape Horticulture Department, will be closed and all services will be suspended for the holiday with class resuming on Tuesday February 16th.
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classes at the Horticulture Department? Do you have questions about
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Who's who in the Horticulture Department? Learn more about our faculty and staff.
Find out how to become a Certified Horticulturist. Check out the Horticultural Certificates.
Here's a link to the Environmental Management & Technology program
here at Merritt College www.ecomerritt.org
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