Core Skills

Our courses are designed to train people for a demanding professional context, while recognising that some of our graduates will eventually move into other career directions.

We ensure that our teaching supports development of both core professional abilities and transferable skills that characterise a ‘Sheffield Graduate’. So while we will help you develop professional competencies and build a personal portfolio of project work, you will also sharpen ‘all-rounder’ written, verbal and visual communication skills. Confidence, adaptability and innovation are all key attributes that we hope will develop through your undergraduate years, and will stand you in good stead wherever you decide to work.

An insight in specific knowledge, abilities and values can be seen by browsing module titles, aims and objectives, but the lists below give an overview.

    
            Summary of core skills for the landscape profession
            Key transferable skills
        
            Creative design approaches

            Working effectively in teams

            Design theory and history

            Use of initiative

            Site survey and analysis

            Creative problem solving

            Social and cultural aspects of design

            Presentation Skills

            Urban and rural regeneration

            Research and analytical approaches

            Ecological approaches and habitat restoration

            Structuring and writing reports

            Planting design and restoration

            Confidence with a range of IT applications: CAD, graphic design and presentation

            Planting design and specification

            Adaptable and flexible approaches to projects

            Industry specific IT

            Working to deadlines

            Environmental Assessment

            Verbal presentation/Public speaking

            Landscape planning strategies

            Contracts and practice law

Summary of core skills for the landscape profession	Key transferable skills
Creative design approaches	Working effectively in teams
Design theory and history	Use of initiative
Site survey and analysis	Creative problem solving
Social and cultural aspects of design	Presentation Skills
Urban and rural regeneration	Research and analytical approaches
Ecological approaches and habitat restoration	Structuring and writing reports
Planting design and restoration	Confidence with a range of IT applications: CAD, graphic design and presentation
Planting design and specification	Adaptable and flexible approaches to projects
Industry specific IT	Working to deadlines
Environmental Assessment	Verbal presentation/Public speaking
Landscape planning strategies
Contracts and practice law