Career Opportunities
If you enjoy working with plants and take pride in quality work, this program will appeal to you. Experience the joy of green - and make it your livelihood by earning this certificate at your unique, horticulturally inspiring campus in beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Graduates of this award-winning program find employment in:
· Estate gardening
· Floral design and retailing
· Golf course maintenance and greens management
· Green product sales
· Greenhouse construction and operation
· Horticultural research and journalism
· Landscape design, construction and maintenance
· Nursery and Garden Centres
· Parks maintenance
· Arboriculture
Term Three (Co-op: May to August) |
COOP1125 |
Co-op Work Placement |
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Term Four |
COMM1250 |
Advanced Communications for Horticulture |
2 |
HORT1230 |
Annuals and Herbaceous Perennials |
3 |
HORT1241 |
Sustainable Urban Arboriculture |
3 |
HORT1245 |
Applied Plant Pathology |
3 |
HORT1246 |
Greenhouse Production Science I |
2 |
HORT1303 |
Nursey Production Practices |
2 |
HORT1312 |
Weed Identification and Management |
2 |
HORT1320 |
Turf Management |
2 |
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General Education Elective |
3 |
Students who begin the program in January 2013 complete Term 2 of the program during the Spring Term beginning in May 2013 and running into summer months.