Landscape Construction, Certificate of Achievement

This certificate is designed to give students both broad and specialized training for entry-level employment in landscape construction or to add to their current capabilities in order to create a business in landscape construction.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Install landscapes and horticulture environments.
• Operate landscape construction and maintenance power equipment to construct landscapes in a safe manner.
• Manipulate appropriate plant and inorganic materials to create landscape environments and gardens for human use.
• Apply business and marketing practices unique to landscape construction and maintenance businesses.

Credit Toward Graduation. All credit that students earn in obtaining this certificate may also be applied toward satisfaction of the requirements for graduation from the College.

The minimum time for completion of this certificate is 3 semesters. Completion time will vary based on student preparation and number of classes completed per semester.

Enrollment and Completer Projections

Course number	Course Title	Annual Sections	Annual Enrollment/ Completions
O H 50	Introduction to Environmental Horticulture	5	130/130
O H 56	Horticultural Machines	1	30/30
O H 76	Fall and Winter Plant Identification	2	60/60
O H 63	Soils	1	30/30
O H 75	Pest Management	1	25/25
O H 77	Spring and Summer Plant Identification	2	60/60
O H 71A	Landscape Construction	2	20/20
O H 71BA	Advanced Landscape Construction	2	10/10
O H 60	Business Practices	1	25/25

This Certificate usually has 5-6 completions per year.

CTE (0109.10)

The program of study for this certificate is designed to give students both broad and specialized training for workforce preparation into entry-level employment or to add to their existing capabilities in landscape construction. The Program includes instruction in principles of design and landscape construction, principles of environmental horticulture, plant identification, landscape horticulture, and business practices in the environmental-horticultural industry. Students who complete the curriculum requirements receive the Landscape Construction Certificate of Achievement.

The Certificate curriculum for Landscape Construction is planned so that completion takes about 1.5 years. Graduates, depending upon their interests, abilities, and achievement, may qualify for employment in a wide variety of capacities. Positions that graduates may hold in private employment, or for which they may take civil-service examinations, include those of landscape maintenance gardener, estate gardener, municipal gardener, landscape installer or contractor, landscape designer, nursery specialist, horticultural or agricultural inspector, highway landscape supervisor, tree-maintenance technician, school or community garden coordinator, irrigation technician, landscape restoration worker, athletic field or golf course groundskeeper, or landscape consultant. Other positions include garden sales, growers, horticultural supply sales, interiorscape technicians or supervisors, irrigation design or sales and arborist.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
OH 50	Introduction to Environmental Horticulture	3	Y1/S1
OH 56	Horticulture Machines	3	Y1/S1
OH 60	Business Practices	3	Y1/S1
OH 63	Soils	3	Y1/S2
OH 75	Pest Management	3	Y1/S2
OH 76	Fall and Winter Plant Identification	4	Y1/S2
OH 77	Spring and Summer Plant Identification	4	Y2/S1
CMST 11	Basic Public Speaking	3	Y1 or Y2
OH 71A	Landscape Construction	4	Y2/S1
OH 71B	Landscape Construction	4	Y2/S2

Calculations:

Year 1, Semester 1: 9-units

Year 1, Semester 2: 10-units

Year 2, Semester 1: 8-units

Year 2, Semester 2: 7-units

We are submitting to BACCC as a new program because there is no record of prior recommendation.

This program is unique to the Bay Area. The Landscape Construction Certificate trains people to work specifically in, and is designed around the needs of Maintenance and design Build Enterprises. It also features full semester, for-credit classes, offered by primarily full-time instructors. All curriculum, certificates, and degrees are approved by our Horticulture Advisory. Since 1935 City College of San Francisco District has held program agreements with all other Bay Area Districts that offer Horticulture Programs. Programs at Mission College and CSM, in Horticulture and Floristry, have been eliminated. Programs at Canada and Merritt College have more of a residential focus.