Spring courses

Spring 2025

Listings are subject to change/correction and should be verified with the university's Schedule of Classes on buckeyelink.osu.edu. Questions: M. Lewandowski (lewandowski.52@osu.edu) or D. Tate (tate.228@osu.edu).   For online courses, if there is a Day/Time listed it is expected to login at that day/time (referred to as synchronous).

Curriculum Course number
Title
Credits
Instructor
CLASS NUMBER

Class components

Mode of delivery Days, Times Location
CORE
CORE

ENTMLGY 5600
Principles and Applications of Integrated Pest Management
3 credits
Ashley Leach, Instructor

GRAD
Online 32961

  Online    
CORE ENTMLGY 5800
Pesticide Science
3 credits
R. Johnson and A. Leach, Instructors
GRAD
Online 33296
  Online    
CORE

Note: most MPHM students take HCS 5887 (Intro to Experimental Design) in the fall, which is a prerequisite for this course.
HCS 8887
Experimental Design
4 credits
K. Mercer and D. Barker, Instructors

GRAD
Lecture (online and in-person hybrid) 32362
AND
Recitation 32363

Lecture Hybrid in-person and online MoWeFr 10:20AM - 11:15AM Wooster or Columbus Wednesdays: Lecture on CFAES Columbus campus and video-linked to Gourley 102/Wooster, with online meetings on Mondays and Fridays. Friday meetings are an optional online Q&A session.
Recitation Howlett 139-Columbus and Gourley 102-Wooster Mo 11:30AM - 12:25PM  
CORE

There's a lot of content with this class; recommended for later in the program if plant disease/pathology is new to you at this time.

PLNTPTH 5603
Plant Disease Management
3 credits
D. (Nikki) Tate, Instructor

GRAD
Online, class number 33481
Lecture Online    
CORE

PLNTPTH 7300
Plant Health Management Seminar
1 credit
C. Taylor, Instructor

Online, class number 33149

Seminar Online Webinar Monday evenings
8:00-8:55 PM
Zoom webinar
 
TARGETED ELECTIVES
Targeted elective

ENTMLGY 5500
Biological Control of Arthropod Pests
3 credits
L. Canas

Class number
GRAD 33150

  Online    
Targeted elective ENTMLGY 5608
Turfgrass Insect and Mite Pests - Identification, Biology, and Management
2 credits
Shaohui Wu, instructor
 
GRAD 
33085
  Online    
Targeted elective

ENTMLGY 5609
Landscape Ornamental Plant Insect and Mite Pests - Indentification, Biology and Management
3 cr
Samuel Ward, instructor

GRAD
33392
  Online    
OTHER ELECTIVES
Other
Elective
ENTMLGY 5602 or PLNTPTH 8902
Mentored Extension/Outreach
Variable Independent study Online or in-person N/A N/A
Other Elective (approved by MPHM GSC) ENR 5600
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
3 credits, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Instructor
GRAD
33372
Lecture In person

Mo 12:40PM - 1:35PM
Fri 12:40PM-2:30PM

Kottman 245
Columbus
Other
Elective
AEDECON 4310
Environmental and Natural Resources Economics (Elective)
Allen Klaiber
31970
(can petition for Grad credit)
Lecture In person MoWe 9:35AM - 10:55AM Howlett 164
Columbus
Other
Elective
 

AEDECON 4330
The Sustainable Economy: Concepts and Methods (Elective)
Lec: Elena Irwin
Lab: to be announced
 

Lecture 31971 and
Lab 32898 (can petition for Grad credit)

Lecture In person TuTh 9:35AM - 10:55AM Agriculture Engnr Bldg 104
Columbus
Lab In person Tu 5:30PM - 6:25PM Ag Admin 108
Columbus
Other
Elective
AEDECON 4597.01
Food, Population, and the Environment (Elective)
3 credits
, E. Alexander, instructor

32899
(can petition for Grad credit)

Lecture In person MoWe 11:10AM - 12:30PM Kottman 104
Columbus
Other
Elective
AEDECON 5330
Benefit-Cost Analysis (Elective)
3 credits, T. Jaquet, instructor
GRAD Columbus
33039
Lecture In person TuTh 9:35AM - 10:55AM Cunz Hall 330
Other
Elective
ACEL 7700 (formerly AEE 7700)
Documenting Change through Evaluation and Accountability
3 credits, Joy Rumble, instructor
GRAD 32504   Online    
Other
Elective

FDSCTE 4597.02
Food and Health Controversies in the 21st Century

3 credits, F. Maleky, Instructor

32413 (can petition for Grad credit)   Online    
Other
Elective

HCS 5602
The Ecology of Agriculture

W. Klooster

33636 - Columbus

33797 - Wooster

  In person MoWe 8:40AM - 10:00AM

Kottman 343 videolink to

Gourley 102

Other
Elective

HCS 7821
Environmental Physiology of Managed Plant Systems (prereq HCS 5621)

3 credits, A. Lindsey

 

36007   Online