HORT 1031 is also offered in Spring 2025
HORT 1031 is also offered in Fall 2024
HORT 1031 is also offered in Spring 2024
HORT 1031 is also offered in Spring 2023
HORT 1031 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2023 | HORT 1031 Section 001: Vines and Wines: Introduction to Viticulture and Enology (56587)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Undergraduate student
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, St Paul
Alderman Hall 405
- Enrollment Status:
Open (79 of 80 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is an introduction to the principles of growing grapes (viticulture), making wine (enology), and an appreciation of the historical, geographical, and sensory diversity of wine. The course is taught in part with 20-50 minute online lectures; usually 2 or 3 of these are covered each week. The class also meets once a week for a combination lecture and wine tasting/sensory session. Guest lecturers will be involved to explore certain aspects of the course including grape vine biology, morphology, genetics and breeding, as well as sensory evaluation and wine components, and the subject of soils and so-call "terroir" or regional identity, including the relation between grape cultivar, soil, climate, and cultural practices. Prerequisite: Enrollees must be 21 yrs of age by date of 1st class meeting Enrollment Restrictions: Open enrollment to undergraduate students ONLY; graduate students, masters students, and others will need instructor permission.
- Class Notes:
- Students must be at least 21 years of age no later than the first day of class. No exceptions. Photo identification confirmation will be required.
NO AUDITING PERMITTED
This course is incredibly popular. We do not admit students beyond the 80-seat capacity. Once the course is full, it is full. Students are encouraged to join the waitlist. If the waitlist is full, monitor it regularly in case any spots open.
Effective the first day of the semester - This course requires a permission number to enroll. Students are admitted by priority from the pre-existing waitlist. NOTE: Just because you see an open seat does not mean that seat is open to you. It goes to the next student on the preserved waitlist.
- Class Description:
- Upon completion of this course, each student will understand and have knowledge of the following concepts: The process of fermentation and its role in wine production; fundamental principles of biology and culture of the grapevine; types of wine and their production differences; the major grape-growing regions of the world, the most important grape cultivars in each region, and the characteristics of the wines produced in these regions; systematic evaluation of wine sensory characteristics; understanding commercial wine labels; the basic aspects of plant anatomy, using the grapevine as a model; the major genetic factors in grapes that contribute to wine quality; how cultural and environmental factors affect wine quality and yield; selection, planting, and cultivation of grapevines in a home garden; current issues involving wine and human health; and current social and legal issues involving wine. In addition to lectures, discussion groups, and sensory evaluation (tasting) sessions, the course will include one scheduled Saturday field trip to the Horticultural Research Center (part of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen) to visit the vineyards and our research winery.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
5% Quizzes
15% Class Participation
- Exam Format:
- multiple choice; short answer
- Class Format:
- 65% Lecture
15% Discussion Sensory Evaluation
- Workload:
- 40 Pages Reading Per Week
2 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
Other Workload: Journal; six quizzes; class participation
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56587/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 October 2008
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