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On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1	Identify the major commercial horticultural varieties, pests and diseases in annual and perennial crops in 最新糖心Vlog.
2	Explain how diverse horticultural industries contribute to food culture, environmental resilience, and economic opportunity.
3	Compare and contrast the differences in physiology and related management of several horticultural crops.
4	Explain best practice in management and use of technology within an industry domain.
5	Create an implementation program for a new crop enterprise.

This course is delivered as an intensive in Winter School.

A student enrolled in a 3 unit course, such as this, should expect to spend, on average 12 hours per week on the studies required. This includes both the formal contact time required to the course (e.g., lectures and practicals), as well as non-contact time (e.g., pre-class preparation, post-class assessments, reading and revision).
As this is a winter school, this time sits across 2 consecutive weeks =10 days of teaching plus three weekends, plus 4 days before the final exam.

Horticulture is a diverse field covering many different kinds of crops, from fast growing bean shoots, to slow growing walnuts and everything between. In order to cover the breadth and depth, we chose to design the course around five industry domains and five knowledge domains. The five industry domains are protected cropping, field vegetable crops, perennial tree & vine crops, amenity horticulture, and peri-urban & innovative horticulture. The five knowledge domains cover industry structure, propagation & crop management, postharvest & supply chain, plant health (nutrition, pests & diseases) and irrigation –are fundamental to production of fresh food crops and are relevant to all industry domains. The course presents content on all ten areas through lectures, focussing on crops key to the South 最新糖心Vlogn horticultural sector, and providing reinforcement of all industry and knowledge domains through field tours, hands on practicals, workshops, and discussion groups, with a range of assessments.

Lectures: content delivery as online pre-recorded and live (recorded) sessions with nine SAFW lecturers, all specialists in their fields.

Practicals: hands on practical sessions covering 5 topics: technology in Horticulture, propagation by grafting, pruning of perennial fruit tree crops, and assessing the impact of temperature on shelf life and quality of fresh produce and Irrigation scheduling software/technology. 

Field Tours: Students visit diverse industry sites in the Northern Adelaide Plains, Adelaide Hills, and Fleurieu Peninsula to view and appreciate all 5 industry domains, meet industry stakeholders and understand the drivers that affect different enterprises (such as processing, value adding, field and covered production, storage, marketing, price points). As a group, we will ask questions of the growers, at the end of the course there will be a discussion session on the field tours to coalesce knowledge and compare enterprises under set topics that will support exam revision. The 2020 videos of eight enterprises visited, are available for all students.

Discussion groups: create opportunity for deeper understanding on the topics of sustainability and resilience in horticultural systems, and non-traditional horticultural enterprises, with contributions by external stakeholders (eg AusVeg, Hort Innovation, permaculture, biodynamic production).


Sustainability in Horticulture Workshop: focus on specific knowledge domains to extend lecture content though group work on developments in sustainable management of horticultural crops. Students work in teams to develop an "elevator pitch" on a new sustainability initiative for a key SA horticultural crop and present to the class and external stakeholders. Students participate in a classroom group activity for engagement, feedback and active learning. Students build deeper knowledge of a range of crops through the group activity, and develop their entrepreneurial and communication skills.


Video Quizzes: four pre-course videos to provide context and prior knowledge.

Pest & ID: The ‘Horticultural Identification Tool’ learning tool (online database), has images and descriptions of varieties and symptoms. Students can undertake the training quizzes quiz as many times as desired, aiming for a hurdle of at least 50% correct. The sequence of image display is randomised so each student experiences the quiz differently each time it is attempted. The training material and quizzes are available two weeks before the course begins.

Attendance on all three field tours expected; so appropriate clothing required (i.e. closed top shoes, dress to daily weather). Attendance at all practicals, workshops and group discussions is expected.

Assessment Task	Task Type	Due	Weighting	Hurdle?	Learning Outcome
Four online pre-course Quizzes	Formative	Complete before end of 2-week block; Can begin 1 week before course	0%	No	2,3
Sustainabilty Elevator Pitch	Formative & Summative	During 2-week block	10%	No	1,3
Practicals A. Technolgy in Hort refelctive report B. Propagation & Pruning reflective report C. Postharvest report, D Irrigation technology report	Formative & Summative	During 2 week block	30%	No	3,4
Consultant Report	Summative	2 weeks after 2-week block	20%	No	1,4,5
Examination Part A. Pest & Disease ID Part B. Written answers	Summative	1 week after 2-week block	40%	Yes	1-4

Assessment Item with Hurdle or compulsory component	% needed to meet hurdle or requirement to meet compulsory component	Is additional assessment available if student does not meet hurdle requirement or compulsory component, if no please explain	If additional assessment is available, explain what type
Written exam	50%	Yes	R/AA exam

Four online quizzes. [0%] The online quizzes are based on foundational material presented in online videos and currently cover industry structure and figures, propagation and irrigation. For the quizzes students are given two attempts to complete each quiz, with indications of correct answer after first attempt. All quizzes will be available to students two weeks before the course begins.

Sustainability in HorticultureElevator Pitch [10%] Supported by lectures on each of the industry domains and their own research, with guest presentations by industry leaders, students will focus on specific knowledge domains to extend lecture content though group work on developments in sustainable management of horticultural crops. Students work in teams to develop an "elevator pitch" on a new sustainability initiative for a key SA horticultural crop and present to the class and external stakeholders. Students participate in a classroom group activity for engagement, feedback and active learning. Students build deeper knowledge of a range of crops through the group activity and develop their entrepreneurial and communication skills. In teams, students will develop an innovative idea with online research for their selected crops to formulate their idea. Students will undertake activities to share knowledge and undertake active learning. As a team, they will prepare 3-5 slides and elect a presenter(s) to deliver a 5 minute pitch to the class. This will be assessed in class.

Consultant’s report [20%] Each student will select a crop from a provided list (focus on key SA crops) and prepare a report for a hypothetical client who wishes to establish a specific horticultural enterprise. The report will provide recommendations on the type of site (region and soils, minimum property size), crop genetics and sources, crop management, production infrastructure, postharvest handling, marketing, quality assurance and industry links that will support the enterprise. Alternatively, students may select an aspect of technology that spans across many industries (eg robotics, postharvest grading systems) This assignment will be submitted 2 weeks after the 2-week teaching block has completed.

Practicals: [30%] Students will participate in four hands-on practicals over the 2 weeks
A Technology in Hort demonstration: B: Propagation + Pruning; C: Postharvest assessment, and D: Irrigation technology.

For sessions A & B, students choose to write either a reflective piece on individual technology of relevance to Hort, or a reflective piece on the use of propagation and pruning for key SA Hort crops. This individual assignment will be submitted during the course.

For session C, students will prepare responses to a set of online questions that will require data analysis and interpretation of results gathered in the practical and discuss specific points. This assessment will be submitted after the 2 week teaching block.

Session D: Irrigation technology practical will enable exposure to and learning the basics of using a soil moisture sensing platform (software) to enable decision making on irrigation in horticultural crops. Understanding of the software is examined by using the package to propose appropriate irrigation management decisions in a variety of horticultural crops, and to optimise the irrigation practices. These assignments will be submitted at the end of the 2-week teaching block.

 

Written examination [40%] The examination will cover pest & disease identification, and material gathered in the lectures, workshops, practicals, discussion groups and field tours. It will consist of an identification quiz, and scenario-based essay-type written answers. The Pest & Disease ID quiz will take 45 minutes with 50 questions that have been taken from the Horticultural Pest & Disease Identification Training Tools. The essay-type question component will take 120 minutes. This online exam will be conducted 1 week after the 2-week teaching block has completed.

Late submission of assessments

If an extension is not applied for, or not granted then a penalty for late submission will apply. A penalty of 10% of the value of the assignment for each calendar day that is late (i.e. weekends count as 2 days), up to a maximum of 50% of the available marks will be applied. This means that an assignment that is 5 days or more late without an approved extension can only receive a maximum of 50% of the mark.