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25. Bachelor of Horticulture
25.1. Career opportunities
25.2. Course objectives
25.2.1. Course outline
25.2.2. Electives
This course is offered at the Burnley campus of the University. Students will need to travel to Parkville campus for some 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.
This course is designed to prepare graduates for careers in landscape management, horticultural commerce, research and development, horticultural enterprise management and the media.
On completion of the program, graduates should be able to:
demonstrate an understanding of, and apply, scientific, technological, managerial and social principles related to the environmental horticultural industries of Australia;
interpret the roles and inter-relationships of plants, soil, water, air and micro-organisms and apply them to the interpretation, assessment or prediction of problems and solutions in environmental horticulture systems;
demonstrate analytical, quantitative and interpretive skills in the context of environmental horticulture;
integrate theory, formal study and industry practices at a professional level relevant to environmental/ornamental horticulture;
develop strategies appropriate to the establishment, maintenance and management of landscapes, public and private open space, and plant production systems;
research, analyse and present, both orally and in written form, data and concepts relevant to the industries associated with environmental/ornamental horticulture;
demonstrate an understanding of the dynamic nature of the industries associated with environmental/ornamental horticulture;
demonstrate relevant practical horticultural skills at an acceptable level of competence.
| First year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Semester 1 | Points | |
| 202-103 Biology for Land and Food Resources | 12.5 | |
| or | ||
| 650-141 Biology of Cells and Organisms | 12.5 | |
| Students with a VCE score or 25 or greater in Biology may enrol in 650-141 Biology of Cells and Organisms. | ||
| 207-108 Horticultural Flora | 12.5 | |
| 207-109 Landscape Design and Plant Establishment | 12.5 | |
| 202-104 Information Technology and Communication | 12.5 | |
| or | ||
| 202-251 Quantitative Skills for Land and Food | 12.5 | |
| Students entering without Year 11 Mathematical Methods or equivalent must enrol in 202-251 Quantitative Skills for Land and Food. | ||
| Semester 2 | ||
| 207-103 Ecology | 12.5 | |
| 207-110 The Horticultural Environment | 12.5 | |
| 207-111 Plant Propagation | 12.5 | |
| 207-112 Plant Growth, Nutrition and Chemistry | 12.5 | |
| Total Points | 100.0 | |
| Second year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Semester 1 | Points | |
| 202-206 Plant Function | 12.5 | |
| 202-208 Experimental Design/Statistical Methods | 12.5 | |
| 207-204 Engineering and Irrigation | 12.5 | |
| 207-206 Management of Urban Vegetation | 12.5 | |
| Semester 2 | ||
| 202-207 Soil and Water Resources | 12.5 | |
| 207-101 Land, Food and Resource Economics | 12.5 | |
| 207-207 Plant Health | 12.5 | |
| 207-208 Production of Cultivated Plants | 12.5 | |
| Total Points | 100.0 | |
| Third year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Semester 1 | Points | |
| 202-302 Human Resource Management | 12.5 | |
| 207-336 Project Planning | 12.5 | |
| Two electives | 25.0 | |
| Semester 2 | ||
| 202-311 Industry Project | 25.0 | |
| 202-311 Industry Project (25 points, Semester 2) may be replaced by 202-310 Industry Project (25 points, Year-long) | ||
| Two electives | 25.0 | |
| Year-long | ||
| 202-003 Industry Placement# | 0 | |
| Total Points | 100.0 | |
| Fourth year (honours) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Semester 1 | Points | |
| 208-411 Research Philosophies and Statistics | 12.5 | |
| or | ||
| 207-414 Social Research Methods | 12.5 | |
| or | ||
| 220-404 Methods for Forest & Ecosystem Research | 12.5 | |
| Semester 1 and 2 | ||
| Two electives | 25.0 | |
| Year-long subject | ||
| 202-408 Honours Research Project | 62.5 | |
| 202-408 Honours Research Project (62.5 points, year-long) may be replaced by 202-414 Honours Research Project (62.5 points, mid-year entry). | ||
| Total Points | 100.0 | |
| Third and Fourth years | ||
|---|---|---|
| Semester 1 | Points | |
| 207-312 Garden History and Contemporary Design | 12.5 | |
| 207-315 Landscape Construction | 12.5 | |
| 207-332 Arboriculture | 12.5 | |
| Semester 2 | ||
| 207-201 Resource Management Economics | 12.5 | |
| 207-305 Revegetation and Landscape Restoration | 12.5 | |
| 207-313 Graphic Studies | 12.5 | |
| 207-333 Amenity Tree Assessment and Management | 12.5 | |
Other LFR subjects are also available as electives within the Bachelor of Horticulture.
In addition to these subjects, electives may be drawn from other faculties, subject to the approval of the faculty concerned and the course coordinator. By appropriate subject choice students in the Bachelor of Horticulture will be able to build on the general education they receive in the first two years of the program to develop specialised knowledge in particular horticulture disciplines. For example, production horticulture students might take 207-303, -310 and -321. Landscape management students might take 207-305, -315 and -332.
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