Full Time Landscape Design Course

Our very popular Landscape Design course is now available. The full-time course is aimed at people looking for a career in landscape design. This incredible course has been running for over 20 years and offers in-depth knowledge into the landscape industry.

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General Info.

The Full-time Landscape Design course is aimed at people looking for a career in landscape design. Now Accredited by the Qualification Council for Trades and Occupations.

This incredible course has been running for over 20 years and offers in-depth knowledge into the landscape industry.
The course is divided into 3 components:
1. Knowledge component – 8 months
2. Practical component – 8 months
3. Work experience component 8 months

We believe that technology is the backbone of the Design Industry and as such we teach AutoCAD as an integrated part of our course.

We provide a \*\*year’s free license to AutoCAD\*\* to all our students. Thereafter a discounted rate is offered via AutoCAD. With our excellent lecturers, we make AutoCAD an easy step-by-step process to learn.

Our lecturers are fully trained and qualified in their various fields of expertise and above all have an incredible amount of patience and time for our students. Lecturers still run their own very successful landscape design businesses.

Our lecturers are seen on TV programmes, invited as experts on radio shows and their work is seen in gardening magazines. We are proud that we have multi-award-winning lecturers as part of our lecturing team ensuring that our students receive the best education from the leaders in the field.

This 16month full-time programme covers the complete spectrum of more than \*\*20 courses\*\* with variable numbers of days for each course and 6 months of practical.

This programme runs from Monday to Friday and certain weekends. Times 09h00 to 16h00 or otherwise indicated.

For 33 years Lifestyle College has been presenting Landscape Design and Horticulture courses\*\* at our Campus situated at Lifestyle Home Garden in Johannesburg.

What this course includes.

The courses include lectures, workshops, practicals and outings. This allows great opportunity to experiment and learn from the experience.

Practical’s done:
• Trolley displays of plant material
• Nursery displays of plant material
• On-site work
• Practicals (under mentorship)

Other Activities:
• Outings to gardens
• Mentoring by qualified landscapers
• Networking with qualified Landscape Designers
• Lectures/workshops/studio work – these days are Facilitated by a qualified Facilitator.
• Exam Assessment Days – most courses require a project to be completed at home at your own pace.
• Project/Exam assessment days – Most courses project/exam assessment days are done as group assessments at the College.
**_Outing to industry open days_**
**_Introduction to suppliers_**

Course accreditation.

Certificates Achieved At The End of The Full Time Programme.
[Richard] National Higher Certificate Landscape Designer NQF level 5.

The Lifestyle College is affiliated and has a good standing with the following bodies within the Green Industry:
• SALI (South African Landscapers Institute)
• SAGIC (South African Green Industry)
• SAKV. SANA (South African Nursery Association)

Prospectus?

Not all courses have a prospectus available for download. Please email us and we will gladly send you information.

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What you will require.

Computer Requirements
A laptop with the following specifications is required for the full-time course:
• Mouse compliant with left and right selectors zoom wheel.
• Windows 10 latest update with Microsoft Office.
• 4GB Memory.
• 1920 x 1080 recommended resolution for screen.
• 4.0 GB available memory space.
• DirectX® 9 ¹. DirectX 11 compliant card recommended graphics card.
• Media player – Adobe Flash Player v10 or up.
• Available USB Ports and network port (LAN port).

What to expect from each course?

For each course the number of days you need to attend will vary from course to course.

Lecture:
A qualified facilitator/lecturer will present a certain number of days/lecturers depending on course.

Studio work:
Different courses have different amount of studio days allocated to them. Studio work is often overseen by a Facilitators Assistant that is there to help and guide you through your exam assessment.

Project/Exam Assessment Day:
Each course has a project/exam assessment that needs to be presented at the end of the course.

An “Exam Assessment Day” is set in the timetable.
Most project/exam assessments are presented to the group.

Full Course Price.

80 339.00

*Deposit(for monthly payments).

10 339.00

*Notes on monthly payments.

The above amount can be financed through MobiCred. Click on the pay button below and select the MobiCred option.
Or
Pay a deposit of Deposit 10 339.00
 
The remaining balance of 70 000.00 can be paid over 8 months (Payment per month 8750.00)

How to enrol?

  1. Click Pay Now to make a secure online payment of the once-off or deposit payment according to your choice.
  2. After successful payment DO NOT close your internet browser tab. You will be re-directed to a page where you can complete an online enrolment form or download and email the enrolment form to us.


Once we receive all the information we will confirm your enrolment asap.

PAY FOR COURSE IN FULL

Once Off Payment

80 339.00

PAY FOR COURSE MONTHLY

Deposit Payment*

10 339.00

For manual enrollment and special arrangements on full-time courses:

Download/complete the enrolment form and email us.

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