Course details

Summary

Programme highlights

Get hands on experience with hard landscaping and soft landscaping skills with this practical programme. Combine this with plant identification, planting, safety requirements and communication and team work skills to give you all the fundamentals for a career in landscape construction.

Extend your hands on skills while completing practical tasks at off-site locations in the community.

Through work placement develop self-management, professional conduct and communication skills while carrying out landscape tasks in real world situations.

Career opportunities

Landscape Leading Hand, Landscape Gardener

Programme structure

This certificate is based on both practical activities and theory content.

The four courses are:

Plants and Maintenance

Demonstrate communication skills, interact with team members and colleagues, select and plant plants, carry out routine maintenance tasks for the landscape industry

Site Set-Out and Hard Landscaping

Identify simple parts of a landscape design plan, set out a landscape construction site from plans, carry out hard landscape construction, work safely in a landscape construction situation

Advanced Landscape Site Set Out

Plan and manage the set out of a landscape construction site from drawings / plans

Work Placement

Demonstrating communication skills and professional conduct, instructing and supervising team members, carrying out specific landscape tasks.

Further study

Diploma in Landscape (Level 5) which leads to the New Zealand Diploma in Landscape (Level 5) with a strand in Landscape Construction

Entry criteria

General: Be physically capable of completing the practical aspects of the programme as per the Faculty Checklist list at an information session.

Academic: Have an appropriate level of literacy and numeracy skills to study at Level 4

English Language Entry Requirements: Applicants must have sufficient competence in the English language to undertake this programme which is taught and assessed in English. This will be demonstrated by meeting the current NZQA requirements.

• IELTS test - General or Academic score of 5.5 with no band score lower then 5
• TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) - Score of 530 (with an essay score of 4.5 TWE)
• TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) - Score of 46 (with a writing score of 20)
• Cambridge English Examinations - FCE or FCE for schools with a score of 162. No less than 154 in each skill OET at Grade C in all sub-tests
• NZCEL a) Expiring b) Current - a) Level 3 (Academic) b) Level 3 (Applied)
• Pearson Test of English (Academic) - PToE (Academic) score of 42
• City & Guilds IESOL - B2 Communicator with a score of 42

Provisional Entry

Students who have attained the age of 20 years and do not hold the minimum entry requirements for a programme will be eligible to be enrolled as a student where their previous educational, work or life experience indicates they have a reasonable likelihood of success. Students who have not attained the age of 20 years and do not hold the required minimum entry requirements for a programme may also be eligible to enrol in exceptional circumstances. Such decisions will be made by the Faculty Dean.