Graduate Certificate in Urban Horticulture

The Graduate Certificate is designed for those with qualifications in disciplines other than horticulture. The course provides knowledge and vocational specific skills in the planning, installation and management of vegetation across a range of urban landscape applications. The four core subjects encompass critical learning around the science, function and identification of landscape plants, as well as their propagation, cultivation and use. They also deliver outcomes important in the horticulture of urban landscapes, particularly in relation to soils, water, growing conditions and maintenance. Employment outcomes can be found in technical and planning roles in the areas of open space and landscape management, revegetation and restoration works and horticultural maintenance. Further study pathways are available to the Graduate Diploma and Master of Urban Horticulture.

After completing this course students should be able to:

• Demonstrate skills and knowledge in the science, cultivation and management of plants in urban landscapes.
• Integrate and apply the scientific knowledge of plants, soils, water and growth to urban horticulture.
• Analyse urban horticulture problems and provide solutions based on biophysical and technical considerations.
• Contribute to scholarly and critical attitudes in the discipline of urban horticulture.

Graduates will:

• Have advanced scientific and technical skills and be able to successfully communicate this across a range of disciplines.
• Be able to critically examine, synthesize and evaluate knowledge across related activities
• Analyse problems and generate and transmit solutions to these.
• Have high self-awareness and high-level communication skills and demonstrate this through their application and practice.
• Develop, plan, communicate and implement positive change within their institutions and local communities
• Develop transferable and adaptive skills in mediating difficult work-place and community situations that require clear communication, negotiation and compromise
• Demonstrate autonomy, adaptability and judgement as a practitioner in the application of skills and knowledge.