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Advanced Diploma In Horticulture - Ornamental Horticulture
Advanced Diploma
from £120 per month
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2400
code: VHT009
This is a comprehensive course that provides training for people to work in the care and development of gardens, parks, or other areas of amenity horticulture (eg. Tree management, Turf management, interior plantscaping), at a Technician or Management level, in positions such as: Managers, Technical officers, or Consultants. It opens up so many new areas of opportunity in Horticulture.
Lesson Structure
This Diploma involves the areas of work:
- CORE STUDIES - These modules provide foundation knowledge for the Diploma.
- STREAM STUDIES - Studied after the core modules, stream modules cover more specific or niche subjects.
- ELECTIVES MODULES - a further 7 modules of study to ensure the course is tailored to your needs or choice!
Note that each module in the Diploma is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.
Core Modules
- Biochemistry of Plants (I)
- Business Studies
- Instructional Skills
- Workplace Health & Safety
- Workshop I
- Workshop II
- Research Project I
- Research Project II
- Industry Project
Elective Modules
- Turf Care
- Sports Turf Management
- Turf Repair And Renovation
- Landscaping Foundations (I)
- Landscaping Intermediate (II)
- Cottage Garden Design
- Landscape Construction
- Arboriculture For Beginners
- Arboriculture - Intermediate
- Propagation for Beginners
- Cutting Propagation
- Irrigation (Gardens)
- Australian Native Trees
- Beginners Guide to Australian Natives Plants (I)
- Australian Native Ferns
stream Modules
- Horticultural Marketing
- Horticultural Resource Management
- Introduction to Botany - Plant Physiology and Taxonomy (I)
- Horticulture for Beginners (I)
- Plant Knowledge (Horticulture II)
- Machinery & Equipment (Engineering I)
- Soil Management (Horticulture)
- Plant Pathology
Delivery
- Correspondence
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