Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
NALP-0001
Organization:
The National Association of Landscape Professionals
Location:
Hybrid
Length:
2000 hours of on-the-job training and 144 hours online learning
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Landscape Materials or Landscape Construction
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 2 Irrigation Systems
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Arboriculture or Landscape Management
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 4 Landscape Internship
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 2 Turfgrass Management
This course is recommended for a total of 14 semester hours in the lower-division baccalaureate/associate degree category.
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide comprehensive training to advance skills and qualification on a national level, builds a trusted workforce of landscape professionals.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Correctly mow, edge, and trim turf areas
  • Correctly plant, cultivate, maintain flowerbeds and potted plants
  • Correctly install trees and scrubs
  • Apply fertilizers
  • Read, analyze and measure job sites and blueprints
  • Clean paving and hardscaping with hand and power tools and equipment
  • Use recognized safety techniques to organize and maintain equipment, tools and materials
  • Correctly weed, rake and cultivate shrub, groundcover and turf areas
  • Apply specific herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides
  • Correctly water, prune, fertilize, mulch perform leaf removal and maintain existing landscape
  • Program automatic and manual watering schedules
  • Make minimum adjustments and repairs to irrigation and/or low voltage lighting systems
  • Correctly identify the plants and flowers used on a project

General Topics:

  • Organizing equipment and tools
  • Maintaining equipment and tools
  • Maintaining landscapes
  • Installing trees and shrubs
  • Applying fertilizer, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides
  • Reading and analyzing job sites and blue prints
  • Programming and adjusting irrigation and low/voltage lightning systems
  • Identifying plants and flowers
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Quizzes

Minimum Passing Score:

80%
Supplemental Materials