Graduate Certificate in Urban Horticulture (GC-URBHORT) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

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.

Generic skills

• The ability to interpret, synthesise and communicate effectively both verbally and in written format.
• Ability to integrate information across a relevant discipline to solve problems in applied situations.
• Improved problem-solving through critical thinking and analysis, planning, management and communication.
• A greater capacity for creativity and innovation by integrating multi-disciplinary scientific, technical knowledge and skills.
• A profound respect for truth, intellectual and professional integrity, and the ethics of scholarship.
• An ability to derive, interpret and analyse social, technical or economic information from primary and other sources.

Graduate attributes

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.