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Producing the country's top garden designers since 1992

Student Effort & Feedback

The current course, designed after consultation with Oxford Brookes University, is based on the notion of 600 hours of your effort to complete each and every semester, including all class/studio contact teaching time and private study and an additional 600 hours of study in the summer term. This is a very inexact science but is based on years of experience.

The time required to complete tasks will vary according to your personal organisation, ability and application. Feedback mechanisms are used regularly to monitor all aspects of the course including levels of effort required to successfully complete each section.

Assessment, is by course work and written examination together with continual assessment of design projects and associated technical studies  The course is student led, with ongoing evaluation over two taught semesters with a third research led semester June – September. Assignments make up 60% of the possible marks, research work accounting for 30% and a final exam makes up the final 10%. Design work, carried out through studio projects and taught by tutorial, form the heart of the course.

Chris James design
Chris James design
Chris James design

Christopher James (Student 2007/8)

 

Diploma Course Advantages
Free 4 Day Intro Class...Free CAD Course...Free VectorWorks Software...Free membership of the Society of Garden Designers...Free drawing equipment...Free Sketchup software...Free Office software...Free Graduate Mentoring.
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