Course Level
Certificate III
Certificate III in Horticulture - AHC30716
This qualification provides a general vocational outcome in amenity horticulture. No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Campus | Duration | Fees | ATAR |
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Mount Gravatt | Full-time - 0.5 years Part-time - 1.5 years | N/A | N/A |
Grovely (Keperra) | Full-time - 0.5 years Part-time - 1.5 years | N/A | N/A |
Structure
5 core units plus 11 electives.
Subjects
- Install water features
- Implement a retaining wall project
- Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
- Plan and maintain plant displays
- Renovate sports turf
- Erect timber structures and features
- Carry out emergency disease or plant pest control procedures at infected premises
- Install cable and bracing
- Conduct site inspections
- Implement traffic management plan
- Prepare specialised plants
- Construct landscape features using concrete
- Operate fertigation equipment
- Troubleshoot irrigation systems
- Use advanced climbing techniques
- Prepare and apply chemicals
- Conduct operational inspection of park facilities
- Transport and store chemicals
- Install pressurised irrigation systems
- Operate machinery and equipment
- Implement a plant nutrition program
- Set out site for construction works
- Fall trees manually (advanced)
- Undertake aerial rescue
- Coordinate work site activities
- Install metal structures and features
- Implement a propagation plan
- Implement a grassed area maintenance program
- Implement a tree protection program
- Implement a tree transplanting program
- Prepare growing media
- Install and maintain plant displays
- Contribute to work health and safety processes
- Control weeds
- Report on health and condition of trees
- Provide information on plants and their culture
- Implement a maintenance program for an aquatic environment
- Construct brick and block structures and features
- Receive and dispatch nursery products
- Implement soil improvements for garden and turf areas
- Deliver and promote sales of plants
- Implement a tree maintenance program
- Work effectively in an emergency disease or plant pest response
- Operate pressurised irrigation systems
- Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
- Establish turf
- Implement a plant establishment program
- Perform pruning operations
- Identify and report unusual disease or plant pest signs
- Monitor and operate water treatment processes
- Measure irrigation delivery system performance
- Perform specialist amenity pruning
- Dismantle trees
- Maintain nursery plants
- Implement a paving project
- Identify plant specimens
- Carry out movement and security procedures
- Construct stone structures and features
- Maintain pressurised irrigation systems
- Construct turf playing surfaces
- Monitor turf health
- Operate a pole saw
- Apply biosecurity measures
- Implement a landscape maintenance program