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29. Advanced Diploma of Horticulture
    29.1. Course objectives
    29.2. Career opportunities
    29.3. Course outline

29. Advanced Diploma of Horticulture

This course is a two-year full-time, or equivalent part-time, course offered at the Burnley campus at the University. The course is designed to provide vocational outcomes in the area of arboriculture, nursery management, landscape construction, and parks and gardens management.

29.1. Course objectives

The Advanced Diploma of Horticulture has as its objectives that graduates are able to:

• successfully organise, operate and develop a business plan;

• recognise alternatives and opportunities, and have a capacity for imaginative thinking, sound judgement, problem solving and decision making;

• act ethically in their approach to the performance of duties relevant to industry standards;

• perform a leadership role within their industry and community;

• communicate effectively with employees, employers, clients and professional services in their industries.

29.2. Career opportunities

Graduates will be able to find employment as landscape contractors, garden designers, sports turf supervisors, nursery production managers, arborists, parks and gardens supervisors, and nursery propagators.

29.3. Course outline

202-250 Quantitative Skills for Land and Food Resources may be taken as a Summer subject.

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