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32. Advanced Diploma in Horticulture

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32. Advanced Diploma in Horticulture
    32.1. Course objectives
    32.2. Career opportunities
    32.3. Course outline

32. Advanced Diploma in Horticulture

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

32.1. Course objectives

Students who have completed this course should have acquired the ability 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; and
communicate effectively with employees, employers, clients and professional services in their industries.

32.2. Career opportunities

Graduates will be able to find employment as garden and landscape contractors, garden designers, nursery supervisors, arborists, parks technical officers, and nursery propagators.

32.3. Course outline

First year

Semester 1		Points
	202-151 Information Technology and Communication	12.5
	207-151 Plant Biology	12.5
	207-153 Horticultural Plants	12.5
	207-158 Horticultural Practice I	12.5

Semester 2
	207-152 Soil Management	12.5
	207-154 Horticultural Technology	12.5
	207-155 Horticultural Practice II	12.5
	207-173 Plant Protection	12.5
	Sub total	100.0

Second year

Semester 1		Points
	207-252 Horticultural Practice III	12.5
	207-263 Advanced Plant Biology	12.5
	208-161 Financial Management I	12.5
	One of
	202-251 Quantitative Skills for Land and Food	12.5
	207-251 Plant Technology	12.5
	207-261 Landscape Design and Graphics	12.5
	207-258 Sports Turf Management	12.5

Semester 2
	207-253 Horticultural Practice IV	12.5
	207-265 Plant Management and the Environment	12.5
	208-269 Managing Staff	12.5
	One of:
	207-254 Horticultural Project Management	12.5
	207-333 Amenity Tree Assessment and Management	12.5
	207-269 Vegetation Management	12.5

Year long subject
	202-051 Industry Placement#	0
	Sub total	100.0

202-251 Quantitative Skills for Land and Food Resources may be taken as a Summer subject.

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32. Advanced Diploma in Horticulture

32.1. Course objectives

32.2. Career opportunities

32.3. Course outline