Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Arboriculture)

This course is comprised of:

1. Core studies - Four units (400 hours) of compulsory subjects for all students.
2. Stream studies – Three stream units for the development of knowledge in arboriculture
3. Project – a workplace project of 200 hrs relevant to your field of study. The project specifically aims to provide the student with the opportunity to apply and integrate skills and knowledge developed through various areas of formal study. Contact the school for more information.

• Distinguish between plants in order to identify at least 50 trees.
• Develop a standard tree report form, customised for surveying the condition and use of trees in your locality.
• Explain how to treat three specified soil related problems that can effect trees.
• Develop a twelve month program, for managing a health problem detected by you in an established tree.
• Demonstrate bridge grafting across a bark wound.
• Determine the minimum equipment required to commence business as a tree surgeon.
• Compare three different chainsaws, to determine appropriate applications for each.
• Determine legislation which is relevant to a specific arborist in a workplace which you visit.
• Explain how to plant a specified advanced-sized tree on a specific site.
• Explain tree injection, including the technique and applications.
• Identify five situations where trees require strengthening operations to be carried out.
• Compare four different ways to control roots which invade underground pipes.
• Calculate the cost of removing a specified tree.
• Determine five appropriate tree species suited to a specific site visited and analysed.
• Devise a method for removing a tree, including tree felling and stump removal.