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Sep 07, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
Cannabis Studies Certificate (CANB-CC)
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The Cannabis Studies certificate program will explore the legal challenges confronting cannabis farming, production, and consumer use, and provide instruction in cannabis cultivation techniques and cannabinoid/THC extraction processes. Students will study the farming economics of land, labor, and capital; governmental regulations and laws affecting small business; and developing opportunities in Western and alternative medicines and therapies. The 18-credit certificate includes classes in horticulture, law and policy, alternative medicine, botany, business, and communications.
Learning Outcomes:
Learners who complete the Cannabis Studies Certificate will:
- Understand the common challenges with cannabis production and how to address those challenges.
- Understand the process for growing cannabis and techniques of seeding, cloning cuttings, pruning and planting, postharvest handling, and cannabinoid/THC extraction.
- Be able to describe the legal challenges confronting cannabis farming, production, and consumer use.
- Understand how to develop an effective presentation for an informative, persuasive, or special occasion purpose talk related to the cannabis industry.
- Explain the relationship of business to society and the individual. This includes the interrelationships with law and politics and an understanding of governmental regulations and laws affecting small business.
- Recognize the major economic resources of the business production process: land, labor, and capital. Understand how to synergistically combine these for financial success.
- Determine methods for objectively evaluating current and future traditional western and alternative medicines and therapies.
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