10001103Arboriculture
Course Information
Description
Gain familiarity with techniques, tools, and pieces of equipment used in the management of trees and tree populations. This course serves to create an awareness of arboricultural careers as applied to commercial, municipal, and utility employers.
Total Credits
2
Course Competencies
  1. Evaluate career options among various arboricultural employers.
    Assessment Strategies
    On a take-home written arboriculture history/future assignment.
    On a take-home written journal assignment.
    Criteria
    Your assignment indicates several historical practices and how you think the industry will continue to change.
    Your paper highlights what you learned from guest speakers from commercial, municipal, and utility arboriculture.

  2. Demonstrate safe operation of industry equipment.
    Assessment Strategies
    On a take-home accident report assignment.
    By participating in an equipment practice field day.
    Criteria
    Your report evaluates what went wrong with accident reports involving various pieces of industry equipment, and how the incident could have been prevented.
    You participate in all equipment scenarios during the field day.

  3. Recognize properly installed support hardware.
    Assessment Strategies
    By participating in a hardware installation activity.
    On an in-class written quiz.
    Criteria
    You participate in the hardware installation activity.
    Your answers accurately identify support hardware standards.

  4. Summarize basic components of tree inventories.
    Assessment Strategies
    On an in-class written quiz.
    By participating in an inventory exercise.
    Criteria
    Your answers accurately indicate reasons for and steps involved in tree inventories.
    You participate in the tree inventory field day with an industry guest.

  5. Summarize basic components of risk tree assessments.
    Assessment Strategies
    On an in-class written quiz.
    On a take-home risk assessment project.
    Criteria
    Your answers accurately indicate tree risk assessment procedures.
    Your project addresses all risk components on a tree in your yard.

  6. List attributes of soil management for tree preservation.
    Assessment Strategies
    On a take-home "tree preservation during construction" quiz.
    On a take-home soil microbiology report.
    Criteria
    Your answers accurately identify steps involved in tree preservation during construction.
    Your report highlights current practices in soil microbiology management.

  7. Perform a tree value assessment.
    Assessment Strategies
    On a take-home value assessment project
    Criteria
    Your report successfully utilizes the American Society of Consulting Arborists' tree replacement method of tree valuation.

  8. Review components of job proposal/bid.
    Assessment Strategies
    By completing a job proposal (pruning &/or removals) on an assigned work site.
    By completing the job.
    Criteria
    Your proposal addresses all aspects of the job.
    You participate in completing the job.