University of Wisconsin – Madison These courses are no longer taught due to changes in curriculum.
Hort/LA 264: Landscape Plants II
Advanced woody ornamental plant identification and cultivar course intended for horticulture and landscape architecture majors, with a prerequisite of Hort/LA 263. The first two thirds of the semester cover important cultivars of major plant groups and reemphasized culture of these plants.
Hort 360: Plant Production and Maintenance
This lecture covered nursery management and landscape maintenance and was intended for horticulture majors.
Hort 361: Plant Production and Maintenance Lab
This lab course covered nursery management and landscape maintenance and was intended for horticulture majors.
Hort 375: Field Production Practices
This course was co-taught by five faculty and consisted of field trips to production facilities around the state.
Guest lectures at UW-Madison
Hort 345: Fruit Crop Production, 3 credits, taught by Dr. Rebecca Harbut. I lectured on edible ornamental landscape plants to 25 students in 2010 and 2012 (course taught in alternate years).
Hort 121: Horticulture Colloquium, 1 credit, taught by Dr. Sara Patterson. Class intended for horticulture majors and non-majors with an average enrollment of 25-30 students. I lectured on the the Green Industry in Wisconsin and ornamental plants (2008-present).
Hort 122: Introduction to Horticulture, 4 credits, taught by Dr. Sara Patterson. Class intended for horticulture majors with an average enrollment of 20 students. I taught two, 2-hr. labs on identification of common woody ornamental plants in 2007.
Hort 120: Survey of Horticulture, 3 credits, taught by Dr. Sara Patterson. Class intended for non-majors (addition of horticulture majors in 2010) with an average enrollment of 75 students. I lectured on woody ornamental plants (2000 and 2005).
Other Non UW-Madison Guest Presentations and Tours
Tour of Chicago Botanic Gardens in Glencoe, IL offered to graduate and undergraduate students in the Dept. of Horticulture. I led the spring garden tour to 14 students, 2008
Tour of Longenecker Horticultural Gardens at the UW-Madison Arboretum to University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Urban Forestry majors, 24 students, 2004
Trees for urban areas lecture to University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Student Society of Arboriculture, 27 students, 2003
Tour of Longenecker Horticultural Gardens at the UW-Madison Arboretum to Milwaukee Area Technical College, Horticulture majors, 14 students, 2002
Non-UW Teaching Experience
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 1992-1998. Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Horticultural Science. Teaching assistant for Plant Propagation (HS 301) and (HS 021, 2-year degree program), Ornamental Plants I (HS 211), Ornamental Plants II (HS 212), Nursery Management (HS 411) and (HS 051, 2-year degree program), and Physiology of Landscape Plants (HS 531). Prepared extensive computer database reference for all plants covered in HS 211 and 212.
Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI. 1991. Horticulture Instructor, Department of Horticulture. Temporary one-semester position teaching two courses in woody plant identification and greenhouse management.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 1989-1991. Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Horticulture. Teaching assistant for Landscape Plants I (HRT 211), Landscape Plants II (HRT 212), and Foliage Plant Identification (HRT 209).