http://www.agronomy.unl.edu/prospective/distanceed.html
Jump-Start Your Future through Distance
Ed/Life-Long Learning Program
(http://www.agronomy.unl.edu/prospective/distanceed.html)
If you’ve ever thought about returning to
college and taking additional courses in agronomy or horticulture to enhance
your career or for personal enrichment, you’ll want to visit the
department’s Distance Education and Life-Long Learning Program website at:
http://www.agronomy.unl.edu/prospective/distanceed.html and explore the new,
exciting and affordable educational opportunities we offer to jump-start
your future.
Our department’s high-quality distance education offerings
revolve around six primary areas—genetics and plant breeding, horticulture,
plant physiology, soil science, turf science, and weed science—with courses
running the gamut from organic farming to crop genetic engineering to turf
and landscape weed management to specialty grain crop production. And the
best part is that the majority of our offerings are available via distance
delivery so learners don’t even have to leave home to take advantage of
them. Most courses are available for graduate academic credit, as well as
noncredit professional development and CEU credit.
We are pleased to let you know about a new, upcoming distance noncredit
professional development certificate program which will be launched later
this year. The program will offer certificates in Agronomy and Pest
Management and Turf and Landscape Management. All courses will be
distance-delivered, and no prior college coursework is required to
participate in the program. Please check our website periodically for
updates on this new program.
The new noncredit certificate program is testimony to the growth of the
department’s distance education program, now entering its tenth year. From
offering only one three-credit-hour course during the 1998-99 academic year,
the program now boasts 27 distance-delivered courses and serves learners in
Nebraska and all over the world. Our distance students include:
agribusiness professionals, horticultural professionals, turf and landscape
management professionals, science teachers, nursery owners, crop
consultants, sales personnel, master gardeners, industry researchers and
producers. They come to us from as close as Lincoln, Nebraska, and as far
away as Belgium!
We hope you will visit our website or contact us soon to further explore the
wonderful educational opportunities available through our Distance Education
and Life-Long Learning Program. For more information, please contact our
director, Dr. Deana Namuth, dnamuth@unl.edu,
402.472.1549, or project assistant, Cathy Dickinson,
cdickinson2@unl.edu,
402.472.1730.
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