Garden
Design Courses
1 Year Fast Track Course
The Oxford College of Garden Design is widely regarded as one of the top contemporary garden design schools in the world and offers both an on-line garden design diploma course as well as its internationally renowned postgraduate level classroom taught program, which is the only garden course in the world to benefit from both studio led lectures, and on-line video tutorials allowing students to revisit lessons on-line at any time.
Held at St Hugh’s College Oxford. It is set in 14 acres of beautiful landscaped gardens and is one of the only schools in the UK to have been previously credit rated to postgraduate level by a British University.
This innovative course is designed to equip you with the skills necessary to set up and run your own design practice and is backed up after graduation, by an experienced ‘Mentor’ who supports you during your first few years of business.
If you wish to find paid employment, our students are considered to be the most employable of any graduate course and have been placed with award winning designers such as Anthony Paul, Luciano Giubbilei, Joe Swift, Charlotte Rowe,Arne Maynard, and Christopher Bradley-Hole to name but a few.
Throughout the course, you work with real clients on real projects. You have access to working sites and often assist tutors on private commissions. No other course gives you a better head start
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Our Garden Design Courses cover......
- Introduction to Spatial Design more
- SketchUp Computer modelling
- Evolution of the Modern Landscape more
- Picasa Photo manipulation
- Small Space Urban Design Pt1 more
- Computer Aided Design (CAD)
- Soft Landscape Form and Colour more
- Large Space Urban Design Pt2 more
- Rural/Country Garden Design more
- Garden Photography
- Business and Professional Practice more
In addition to attending tutorials and lectures, during this course you will work with real clients and gardens where you get to survey a site, interview your clients and design the garden. This hands-on approach allows you to gain valuable “real world” experience and practical skills as well as a highly respected qualification.
This course will give you everything you need to implement a successful landscape design philosophy, the skills to oversee the development of projects and the confidence to play a key role in the construction processes of landscape design.
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