Level 1: Understanding financial information; management and organisational behaviour; soils; wildlife and vegetation analysis and assessment; horticulture plant science; practical horticulture skills. Level 2: Statistics and research methods; rural environmental policy and legislation; horticulture plant pathology; practical horticulture resources; woodland management; wildlife management theory; introduction to landscape design; marketing; operational and business systems; human resource management; entrepreneurship and small businesses; vocational work experience. Level 3: Research assignment or vocational business experience; introduction to rural environmental assessment; sustainable management of the rural environment; developments in landscape design; landscape history; landscape restoration and conservation; horticulture technology; strategic management.