Garden Designer training program is of 550 hours = 390 hours (In house training) + 160 hours (OJT) . Garden Designer is designed to produce technical workforce in the field of garden designing to equip essential skills, knowledge and attitudes for garden designing in order to meet the demand of such workforce in the country so as to contribute in the national streamline of poverty reduction.
This curriculum provides skills and knowledge necessary for garden designer. There will be both demonstration by trainers/instructors and opportunity by trainees to carry out the skills/tasks necessary for these level of technical workforce. Trainees will practice and learn skills by using typical tools, materials and equipment necessary for this program.
This curricular program includes tasks/skills and related technical knowledge necessary for garden designing.
Aim
The aim of this curricular program is to produce skilled workforce in the field of garden designing by providing training and link the graduates to employment opportunities.
Objectives:
After the completion of this training, the graduates will be able to:
- Identify materials for garden design and development
- Analyze/apply principle on of garden designing.
- Design different types of gardens.
- Market garden designing skills
- Apply Computer application skills in garden designing
- Develop entrepreneurship skills
Salient Features
Duration: 550 hours = 390 hours (In house training) + 160 hours (OJT)
Target group: The target group for this training program will be individuals having + 2 levels pass with 5 years experience in the related field.
Group size: The group size of this training program will be maximum of 24.
Target location: The target location of this training program will be all over Nepal.
Medium of Instruction: The medium of instruction for this training program will be Nepali or English or both.
Pattern of attendance: The trainees should have 80% attendance in theory classes and 90% in practical/ performance to be eligible for internal assessments and final examinations.
Focus of the program: This is a competency based program. This program emphasizes on competent performance of the task specified in it. 80% time is allotted to the competencies and 20% to the related technical knowledge. So, the main focus will be on the performance of the specified competencies/tasks /skills included in this program guide.
Follow up suggestion:
This is not a training program only for training sake. The ultimate success of this program will rest on the proficiency of the graduates of this training program in providing services in the community either by wage employment or by self-employment.
In other to assess the success of this program and collect feedbacks/inputs for the revision of the program, a schedule of follow up is suggested as follows:-
Certificate requirement: The related training institute will provide the training certificate of “Garden Designer” to those individuals who fulfill all the requirements of this curriculum.
Eligibility
Entry criteria
Individuals who meet the following criteria will be allowed to enter in this curricular program:
- Minimum + 2 level pass with 5 years experience, or
- B.sc.Ag. or equivalent or in the related field
- Minimum of 16 years of age
- Should pass entrance examination
Curricular Structure
Module: 1 Introduction
Module: 2 Garden Designing
Sub module 1.1: Designing a typical garden
Sub module 1.2: Designing Outdoor garden
Sub module 1. 3: Designing indoor gardens
Module 3: Landscape garden designing
Sub module 3.1: Principles of landscape designing
Sub module 3.2: Residential landscape designing
Sub module 3.3: Public landscape designing
Module 4: Designing parks and recreational areas
Module 5: Designing public garden
Module 6: Computer application in garden designing
Module 7: Management Activities
Sub module 7.1: Managing garden designing activities
Sub module: 7.2: Marketing
Sub module: 7.3: Communication
Sub module 7.4: Professional Development
Module 8: Entrepreneurship Development