Garden and Greenspace Design BSc / BSc Hons
Bachelor's degree
In Glasgow
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Glasgow (Scotland)
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Duration
4 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
UK garden designers are held in high regard worldwide. Increasing demand for the services of garden designers in Europe and further afield is creating exciting opportunities for those qualified. Well-trained garden designers are equipped to design small scale public open spaces as well as larger gardens.
Gardens and greenspaces are essential for improving health and wellbeing and creating a sense of belonging. In a changing climate with increased pressure on urban and rural land, landscape designers are ideally placed to provide leadership through clarity of vision. This course gives students the skills and awareness required to practice working in a variety of settings, from the domestic garden to the public open space. In the first two years of the degree you will study the fundamentals of garden design alongside students on the HND Garden Design course. Year three opens with the exciting opportunity to visit a foreign destination as part of the International Design Project module. You will work on real life projects with real clients in the public and private realm at a variety of scales, learning how to understand places, plants, and people in increasing detail. In the final year of the honours degree, students will research projects of their own choosing in the field of landscape design. A qualification in Garden Design can open up a wide range of career possibilities – from garden designers, landscape architects, landscape technicians, labourers, maintenance workers, gardeners, design and build operatives to contract managers and estimators; many successful students now run their own small businesses.
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Subjects
- IT
- Design
- International
- Public
- Private
- Project
- Garden Design
- Advanced
- Techniques
- Digital
- Media
- Sustainable
Course programme
What Will I Learn
The first two years follow the HND Garden Design. In the final two years you will study international and regional garden styles, climatic zones and ornamental plants, sustainable design and environmental issues, landscape horticulture, advanced techniques in digital media and professional practice in order to become proficient in detailed contextual design.
How Will I Learn
You will undertake project design work on real sites with community and private clients to expand your ability to design innovatively and in detail. A project abroad may be undertaken, and you will research specific themes such as water conservation or designing recreational pathways to encourage wellbeing.
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 will be varied, such as investigations into the perception of planting green roofs and green walls, the uses of novel sustainable materials in garden features, or designing gardens for youth groups.
Course Leaflet
Find out more – download the Garden and Greenspace Design course leaflet.
Additional information
Garden and Greenspace Design BSc / BSc Hons