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30. Associate Degree in Environmental Horticulture
    30.1. Course objectives
    30.2. Career opportunities
    30.3. Course outline

30. Associate Degree in Environmental 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.

30.1. 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.

30.2. 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.

30.3. Course outline

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