Environmental Horticulture: Landscape Technician Certificate Agriculture & Natural Resources Total Units: 16.5

Term Effective: Fall 2007

The requirements for this program of study are effective beginning the semester shown above. If you began working on this program before the effective semester, you may not be affected by the changes. Consult with the program contact person or the department chair to determine your eligibility to complete the program under previous requirements.

Term Inactive: Fall 2014

Previous Versions:

Environmental Horticulture: Landscape Technician - effective Fall 2005
Horticulture: Landscape Technician - effective Fall 1981

Description:

The Environmental Horticulture: Landscape Technician Skills Certificate program is the second level in the Landscaping program and is designed to offer skills for work in a variety of landscape professions. The program emphasizes hands-on learning and most courses incorporate lab activities that apply knowledge and skills in realistic settings. The certificate equips students to work as part of a landscape maintenance crew or to work independently as a landscape maintenance provider.

Coursework required in this certificate program also applies to the Horticulture: Landscape Management Certificate of Achievement. Students who have completed the Horticulture: Landscape Maintenance Skills Skills Certificate have already fulfilled a portion of the Horticulture-Landscape Technician Skills Certificate. Completion of the Horticulture:Landscape Technician Skills Certificate fulfills a portion of the Horticulture: Landscape Management Certificate of Achievement.

The landscape industry deals with all aspects of plant use in the landscape. People working in the landscape field derive job satisfaction from enhancing the function and beauty of the environment while being physically active outdoors or helping support that activity in allied sales and service occupations. Landscape work involves construction and planting projects, irrigation system design and water management, and specialty fields such as turf management, tree care, and interiors. This program provides an introductory base of plant knowledge and landscape skills, allowing students the option of entering a variety of jobs with the preparation for rapid advancement within their chosen occupations. The program is actively supported by the local horticulture industry.

The Horticulture industry, which involves the growing, selling, planting and servicing of plants and landscapes for human environments, is one of the fastest growing industries in America. The landscape industry in California is one of the state's largest industries. University studies have consistently found this dynamic, growing sector represents over $12 billion in sales and 130,000 employees. In addition, designed and maintained landscapes cover more than 1.6 million acres in California.

In Sonoma County the landscape industry has expanded dramatically in the last decade. Private and commercial property values are enhanced by professionally installed landscapes, and the services of large and small landscape firms are in high demand. In addition, a significant number of independent, entrepreneurial landscape/garden designers offer services throughout the county.

This industry-wide expansion has been accompanied by an increase in the demand for employees who can deal with all aspects of the landscape. Men and women who possess landscape management skills are qualified to advance into supervisory and management positions within landscape contracting firms, design or landscape construction companies, municipal, state, county, and federal agencies, entrepreneurial landscape maintenance enterprises, and other occupations that require the application of plant knowledge, drafting/design, irrigation design, and landscape construction skills.

For more information see the Agriculture Department website

Program Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this certificate, the student will be able to:

  1. Create a materials take off for hardscape features;
  2. develop the skills to perform landscape contractor construction skills; and
  3. demonstrate proper landscape plant maintenance practices.

Program Requirements:

The requirements for the Environmental Horticulture: Landscape Technician program are:

  • Complete 16.5 units from
    • Environmental Horticulture: Landscape Technician Requirements

Environmental Horticulture: Landscape Technician Requirements - complete 16.50 units
HORT 50.1Introduction to Horticultural Science1.50
HORT 8Plant Materials: Summer/Fall3.00
HORT 80Landscape Practices3.00
HORT 91Landscape Construction/Estimation3.00
HORT 92.1Landscape Irrigation3.00
HORT 93Landscape Drafting and Design3.00

Course Prerequisites and Advisories:

Courses in a program of study may have prerequisites or advisories; that is, courses that must or should be completed before taking that course. Please check for prerequisites or advisories by clicking on the course numbers in the Program Requirements section.

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