Horticulture Technician
Certificate of Apprenticeship (441C)
STARRT Institute, Stoney Creek
Note: Applicants for this training must be registered apprentices in the Horticulture Technician Trade
Highlights
- Experience your in-school apprenticeship Training here at STARRT
- Acquire training safe workplace practices including dealing with on-site conditions, emergencies and hazards, according to federal and provincial pertinent safety legislation and municipal legal requirements.
- Learn basic scheduled, preventative and on-going maintenance procedures for powered horticultural equipment, according to respective federal, provincial and municipal legal requirements
- Learn water quality, plant water requirements and local conservation standards, water stewardship principles, basic irrigation systems and procedures according to federal, provincial and municipal legal requirements
- Acquire specialized training in turf grass establishment and cultivation practices including monitoring turf grass quality, plant health care, and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques used in landscape construction (Softscape Installation), and grounds/golf course maintenance operations, according to respective federal, provincial, and municipal legal requirements
Career Opportunities
- Nursery Production
- Landscape Contracting
- Grounds Management
- Landscape Designer/Architect
- Lawn Care
- Interior Plantscaping
- Irrigation Contracting
- Golf Courses
- Floriculture
- Municipal Parks
- Botanical Gardens, Arboreta
- Education and Research
- Garden Centre and Horticultural Garden
Program of Studies for students starting Fall 2012.
Click on the course title for a course description.
| Semester 1 |
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| Course # |
Course Title |
Hrs/Week | |
| HORT | 10026 | Turf Management 1 | 2.00 |
| HORT | 10027 | Plant Science | 2.00 |
| HORT | 10028 | Landscape Construction 1 | 4.00 |
| HORT | 10029 | Landscape Equipment Maint | 2.00 |
| HORT |
10030 |
Workplace Safety | 2.00 |
| HORT |
10031 |
Workplace Communications | 2.00 |
| HORT |
10032 |
First Aid | 1.00 |
| HORT |
10033 | Plant Identification 1 | 3.00 |
| HORT |
10034 |
Pest Control | 6.00 |
| HORT |
10035 |
Plant Materials 1 | 3.00 |
| HORT |
10036 |
Trade Calculations | 4.00 |
| Semester 2 |
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| Course # |
Course Title |
Hrs/Week | |
| HORT | 10037 | Irrigation | 2.00 |
| HORT | 10038 | Landscape Construction 2 | 7.00 |
| HORT | 10039 | Plant Materials 2 | 2.00 |
| HORT |
10040 | Turf Management 2 Lec | 1.00 |
| Turf Management 2 Lab | 2.00 |
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| HORT |
10041 |
Plant Propagation Lec | 2.00 |
| Plant Propagation Lab | 2.00 |
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| HORT |
10042 |
Plant Production Lec | 2.00 |
| Plant Production Lab | 2.00 | ||
| HORT | 10043 | Site Layout and Grading | 2.00 |
| HORT | 10044 | Plan Reading & Quantity Takeoff | 2.00 |
| HORT | 10045 | Plant Identification 2 Lec | 1.00 |
| Plant Identification 2 Lab | 2.00 |
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