Landscape Design and Management
Why choose Landscape Design and Management?
The course is designed to provide a means for those who have previously achieved a relevant academic or professional qualification in this career area or similar to progress to Honours degree level.
Effective and innovative design and management of our country’s land-based resources provides for much of the managed landscape that makes the countryside, parks and gardens, community areas, heritage buildings and modern housing, retail and commercial areas the attractive and pleasant places they are and that we have become used to.
The future development of sustainable buildings and homes is also closely linked with this exciting career area, and a particular speciality is the relationship between plants and buildings, living walls, natural services and systems including water harvesting, renewable energy and interior landscapes.
Special features
- The experienced specialist team of staff includes practitioners with award-winning track records and academic staff with up-to-date research profiles.
- Practical experience is included within the modules based at the rural campus at Northop, Flintshire, and there are joint activities with related courses at Plas Coch, Wrexham.
- Students have access to the Wrexham campus and the up-to-date learning facilities on both sites.
- The environment and sustainability are strong elements within the aims of the programme and are directly linked to professional and sector skills requirements. The programme will be offered to the Landscape Institute for accreditation.
- Landscape operatives and others not requiring an Honours degree will have the option of qualifying from the programme with a BSc in Landscape Management.
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Career opportunities
There is a wide range of careers available within this important sector that manages a substantial part of the everyday environment. The effective and sustainable design and management of land is vital to the future not only of rural areas but also urban estates and public spaces. This career area now has substantial links with architecture, property management and the construction industry as well as the more obvious rural, heritage, parks and gardens elements that now too are engaging with renewable energy and water management.
Graduates will expect to work at middle and senior management levels in a wide range of land-based professions. Demand for such persons is growing throughout Europe and in many Commonwealth countries.
