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24. Bachelor of Horticulture
    24.1. Course objectives
    24.2. Career opportunities
    24.3. Course outline
    24.4. Discipline sequences - recommended electives
    24.5. Elective subjects

24. Bachelor of Horticulture

This course is offered at the Burnley campus of the University. Students will need to travel to Parkville for a few subjects.

The Bachelor of Horticulture is designed to enable students to major in different areas of the horticultural industry, which can include landscape management, landscape construction, wholesale and retail nursery management, flower production, sports turf management, and arboriculture.

24.1. Course objectives

Students who complete this course will have acquired:

• an understanding of integrated approaches to environmental horticulture;

• an understanding of the individual roles and inter-relationships of plants, soil, water, air and micro-organisms in order to identify/assess/predict problems and solutions in the horticultural growing systems;

• an ability to describe and apply scientific principles appropriate to environmental horticulture;

• an ability to demonstrate a broad knowledge of technology and practical competence appropriate to a selected specialisation in environmental horticulture;

• an ability to develop strategies appropriate to the establishment, maintenance and management of the landscapes;

• a broad knowledge of the principles of plant production systems and their practical management;

• an ability to demonstrate analytical, quantitative and interpretative skills in the context of environmental horticulture;

• an ability to demonstrate effective communication skills including appropriate numeracy, literacy skills and application of technology.

24.2. Career opportunities

This course is designed to prepare graduates for careers in landscape management, horticultural commerce, research and development, horticultural enterprise management and the media.

24.3. Course outline

*Electives can be selected from the following lists or from approved subjects from other courses.

24.4. Discipline sequences - recommended electives

24.5. Elective subjects

Insufficient enrolments may lead to a subject being suspended.

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