Landscaping and Landscape Management
From parks to green spaces, traffic facilities, sports/recreational facilities, or private gardens: landscape development is a branch with wide-ranging requirements. Your job as a landscape development engineer is to develop and maintain these green and outdoor spaces and to develop economically feasible solutions. We give you the tools you need to do so here.
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A Degree Program with a Future
You can also study this degree program dual.
You will bring one of the following educational backgrounds:
- General university entrance qualification (Abitur)
- Specialized university entrance qualification
- Advanced technical college certificate (Fachhochschulreife)
- Vocational qualification
Eight-week basic internship which must be completed and proven by the start of the lecture period at the latest. If you cannot end your internship until the start of lectures, please submit a preliminary certification from the company for enrollment. The basic internship should include work in garden and landscape development, sports facility development, green space care, forestry. Training in garden and landscape development will be recognized as a basic internship.
German language level: C1
After a joint foundation course with students on the Bachelor's degree program in Landscape Architecture, students specialize in the field of landscaping and green space management. In addition to specialization options within the framework of projects and elective modules, various study options are also offered for this course:
- The dual study option combines vocational training as a “gardener” specializing in “gardening and landscaping” with a university degree in landscaping.
- The study option “Open Space and Environmental Management” (Bachelor of Engineering) can also be completed alongside practical work within seven semesters as a second study option.
- The third study option prepares you to become a vocational school teacher (currently being planned). A Bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Education) with this study option qualifies you to take up further Master's studies at the University of Bonn.
Course structure and content “Landscaping”:
1. Semester
- Fundamentals of landscape and open space planning
- Fundamentals of ecology
- Digital tools 1
- Introductory project: Analyzing and planning
- Profession and practice 1
2. Semester
- Fundamentals of landscaping
- Plant science and site-appropriate use of plants 1
- Digital tools 2
- Introductory project: Design and construction
- Profession and practice 2
3. Semester
- Internship semester
4. Semester
- Project: Implementation planning
- Company organization and management I
- Plant science and site-appropriate use of plants 2
- Sustainable building
5. Semester
- Project: AVA
- Cost accounting and supplement management
- Company organization and management II
- Compulsory elective subject
6. Semester
- Project: Training company
- Construction management
- Vegetation technology / green space management
- Compulsory elective subject
7. Semester
- Excursion
- Trainee program
- Thesis seminar and colloquium
- Bachelor's thesis
Course structure and content “Open Space and Environmental Management”:
1. Semester
- Fundamentals of landscape and open space planning
- Basics of ecology
- Digital tools 1
- Introductory project: Analyzing and planning
- Profession and practice 1
2. Semester
- Fundamentals of landscaping
- Plant science and site-appropriate use of plants 1
- Digital tools 2
- Introductory project: Design and construction
- Profession and practice 2
3. Semester
- Internship semester
4. Semester
- Facility and open space management
- Administrative and environmental law
- Strategies for project development in the public sector
- Project: Project development and planning
5. Semester
- Construction process engineering and automation
- Area and spatial data management
- Project: Digital networking and tools
- Compulsory elective subject
6. Semester
- Construction project management
- Entrepreneurship
- Project: Sustainable property planning and construction management
- Compulsory elective subject
7. Semester
- Excursion
- Trainee program
- Thesis seminar with colloquium
- Bachelor's thesis
Your degree program will focus on duties surrounding the planning, construction, and care of green and open spaces. You will focus in particular on operational processes for creating new or renovated spaces. In this context, you will gain
- technical expertise
- basic and specialized business knowledge
- Botany
- content on green space management
- soft skills like communication, marketing and digital instruments
Job profiles “Landscaping”:
As a graduate, you will enjoy career prospects in these areas:
- Manager in garden, landscape and sports facility construction companies
- Managing green space management departments and companies in municipalities in the housing industry, etc.
- Working as an expert (in garden, landscape and sports facility construction, botany and plant usage or tree care)
- Construction management in a planning firm with a focus on project monitoring, controlling
- Commercial representation for products and services in the construction and green sector
Job profiles “Open space and environmental management”:
Your professional orientation moves in the field of tension between economy, ecology and social aspects. This is always based on the idea of digitally connected work in relation to the entire life cycle of open spaces.
What constitutes the “success of an open space”: you are investigating this term and the increasingly sought-after task.
Graduates of the Open Space Management degree program will find employment in the following areas:
- Commercial enterprises
- local authorities
- Management consultancies
- housing industry
We cooperate with garden and landscape development companies, as well as with cities and communities.
Research cultural landscapes with us.
... the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
- directly to good health and well-being
- directly to clean water and sanitation
- directly to sustainable cities and communities
- directly to responsible consumption and production
- directly to climate action
- directly to life on land
Studying at Sustainable Campus Höxter
Sustainable studying in Höxter
At the Höxter campus, much of the focus is on the environment, sustainability, and digitalization—for example, in the environmental engineering and landscape architecture degree programs and in the field of precision farming. Projects such as the 2023 State Garden Show demonstrate that sustainability can be exciting, practical, and innovative. This is ensured by modern laboratories, our own botanical garden, and close cooperation with local authorities and companies.
Important note: Future relocation of degree programs from the Höxter campus
The Sustainable Campus Höxter will remain one of the three locations of the TH OWL. Enrollment in the degree programs offered there will still be possible for the 2025/2026 winter semester. In the future, these will be relocated to the Creative Campus Detmold or the Innovation Campus Lemgo. Planning for this is underway; a concrete timetable will be announced in the course of 2025. TH OWL will ensure that all students are informed several months in advance and can continue to study and complete their programs without disruption.
Information
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- Manual of course modules
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