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For Fall 2008-Spring 2009, the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will offer the following distance-delivered courses for academic credit, noncredit professional development and CEU credit. For more information, visit the department's Distance Education and Life-Long Learning Program Web site at http://www.agronomy.unl.edu/newprospective/distanceed.html, or contact Cathy Dickinson, cdickinson2@unl.edu, 402.472.1730.

Individuals interested in taking courses for noncredit or CEU credit can register online through the ADEC eStore at: https://estore.adec.edu. 

• Agricultural Biochemistry
  August 25 - December 12, 2008
  Noncredit Registration Fee: $150 ($200 after August 18)
  Full-semester course that explores the biochemical bases of agriculture and food production.
• Plant Science
  August 25 - December 12, 2008
  Noncredit Registration Fee: $150 ($200 after August 18)
  Full-semester course which examines the mechanisms used by plants to drive and control their growth, propagate and evolve to compete with other organisms.
   
• Self-Pollinated Crop Breeding
  August 26 - September 25, 2008
  Noncredit Registration Fee: $150 ($200 after August 19)
  Mini-course covering common breeding methods used to improve crops and the theoretical basis for self-pollinated crops.
• Germplasm and Genes
  September 30 - November 4, 2008
  Noncredit Registation Fee: $150 ($200 after September 23)
  Mini-course focusing on genetic variation resources for conventional and modern plant breeding programs.
• Cross-Pollinated Crop Breeding
  March 25 - April 23, 2009
  Noncredit Registration Fee: $150 ($200 after March 18)
  Mini-course examining standard breeding methods and theories associated with population improvement of cross-pollinated crops (i.e., corn, alfalfa, sunflowers and forage grasses) and self-pollinated crops that are forced to cross-pollinate.
   
• Crop Breeding Package
  Includes all three of the above-listed crop breeding mini-courses, plus the course notebook. Noncredit Registration Fee: $400

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