Landscape Maintenance Certificate of Achievement

The program of study for this certificate is designed to give students both broad and specialized training for entry-level employment as maintenance gardeners or to add to their capabilities in landscape maintenance including preparation for State and Civil Service examinations for the position of maintenance gardener.

Learning Outcomes

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

• Apply horticulture care and processes to maintain residential and commercial landscapes.
• Identify and maintain plants based on Fall/Winter, Spring/Summer seasons.
• Execute the duties required to work in various kinds of horticultural businesses.

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 53A	Beginning Landscape Horticulture	2	20/20
O H 53B	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 entry-level employment as maintenance gardeners or to add to their capabilities in landscape maintenance including preparation for State and Civil Service examinations for the position of maintenance gardener. The program of study for this certificate includes instruction in principles of landscape 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 and other graduation requirements receive the Associate in Science in Landscape Gardening and Landscape Contracting.

The curriculum in Landscape Maintenance is a 1.5-year course of study, planned so that 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/S1
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	Y1/S2
OH 53A	Beginning Landscape Horticulture	3	Y2/S1
OH 53B	Advanced Landscape Horticulture	3	Y2/S2
CMST 11	Basic Public Speaking	3	Y1 or Y2

Calculations:

Year 1, Semester 1: 12-units

Year 1, Semester 2: 11-units

Year 2, Semester 1: 3-6 units

Year 2, Semester 2: 3-units

This program is being submitted as new since there is no record of a BACCC recommendation.

This program is unique to the Bay Area in that it trains people to work specifically in; and is designed around the needs of Maintenance of Gardens specific to residences, businesses and public facilities in San Francisco. 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.