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Sustainable Landscapes
The mission of the Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Landscapes is to provide an innovative and relevant curriculum that reflects changing social attitudes towards the conservation and sustainability of our living environments. Landscape Designers will be called upon to provide design and implementation services that apply new strategies of plant and water conservation and energy efficiency. The Sustainable Landscapes program strives to provide advanced landscape design students and experienced landscape design professionals with a fundamental understanding of best practices in landscape conservation and sustainability, adapted to the small-scale landscape, at the neighborhood level.
Combine this certificate with the Landscape Design Graduate Certificate to earn a Master's of Professional Studies in Landscape Design.
This part-time Graduate Certificate program is offered via four, 3 to 6 day intensive courses at GW's Alexandria Graduate Education Center with distance learning units in between. Courses will meet August, November, February and April.
- 15 credit program
- 7 courses: 1-4 credits each
- Designed to be completed in one year
- Scheduled to meet the needs of working landscape professionals.
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