Horticulture with Plantsmanship - Undergraduate Degree (BSc (Hons))

Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)

Bachelor's degree

In Glasgow

£ 1001-2000

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Glasgow (Scotland)

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The course is delivered in partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) with classes and practical work based at both RBGE and SRUC’s Edinburgh campus. As a student on this course you will benefit from the considerable resources and expertise of both organisations.

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Location

Start date

Glasgow (Glasgow City)
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Start date

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About this course

This course gives you the skills you need to address a shortage of suitably qualified people with botanical abilities in plant identification and the techniques appropriate to historic garden restoration at a high level. It develops your understanding of how to integrate the management of plant collections with knowledge of plant distribution, classification, diversity, structure, identification and cultivation. It will give you the knowledge you need to study advanced aspects of botany, and gain an appreciation of the botanical issues in horticulture today. You'll also learn techniques for restoring historic gardens, opening the way for employment in heritage organisations and an important role in preserving the early appreciation and understanding of horticulture that has developed into the discipline we know today. The BSc / BSc Hons Horticulture with Plantsmanship is delivered in partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), with classes and practical work based at both RBGE and SRUC’s Edinburgh campus, giving you access to the considerable resources and expertise of both organisations.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Horticulture
  • Plant collections
  • Developing
  • Plantsmanship
  • HND Horticulture
  • Historical Perspective
  • Physiology
  • Taxonomy and physiology
  • Understanding
  • Taxonomy

Course programme

What Will I Learn

In the first two years you will study the curriculum outlined for HND Horticulture with Plantsmanship. Years three and four broaden your studies by taking a global and historical perspective on plants and plant collections, whilst further developing your scientific understanding of taxonomy and physiology.

How Will I Learn

Coursework involves group work and individual project work on a range of topics including experiments relating to physiology and taxonomy, production of a management plan for a historic garden, and business case studies.

Honours Projects

In your fourth year you will undertake your own research project in a subject which interests you, drawing together all that you have learnt on your course.

Topics covered are varied: recent Honours Projects have included the taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Nepeta L. in Nepal, RBGE’s carpological collection: a curatorial review, an investigation into houseplant mortality and attitudes of landscape professionals towards the creation of wildflower meadows in UK urban landscapes.

Course Leaflet

Find out more – download the Horticulture with Plantsmanship course leaflet.

Additional information

Duration - Full-Time (4 Years), Part-Time (8 Years)

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Horticulture with Plantsmanship - Undergraduate Degree (BSc (Hons))

£ 1001-2000

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