Floristry Design Foundation Degree in Arts - FdA

This foundation degree in Floristry Design is focused on developing your knowledge and understanding of a broad range of floristry skills and techniques, supported with essential theoretical studies.

The programme is designed to help you gain a firm understanding of essential commercial floristry skills and to give you the ability to develop these skills further, becoming confident with contemporary techniques and a wide range of approaches to floristry design. The will experience a real life work environment for a learn whilst doing approach, allowing your development of enterprise and entrepreneurial skills.

Course Aims

* Evaluate information, knowledge and critical understanding of influences and research in new and emerging contexts.

* Analyse selected research, and utilise to develop agreed outcomes.

* Show advanced use of carefully selected digital information and communication technologies for specific tasks.

* Select and employ a range of appropriate digital design 2D and 3D visual communication and illustration systems to communicate design ideas to a diverse audience.

* Evaluate and reflect on own and others process, ethics and development using wide-ranging approaches and criteria in a range of complex contexts.

* Design and develop solutions that demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of floristry elements and principles, technical implications and design aesthetics resulting in client satisfaction within a floristry design related context.

* Conceptualise practical and theoretical concerns though experimentation with 2D and 3D media, materials and processes in response to client and site-specific contexts.

* Synthesise knowledge of environmental and sustainable design principles and evaluate the effectiveness of creative responses to given contexts.

* Reflect on development of employable skills, evaluating personal strengths and weaknesses in preparation for further study or employment.

Learning and Teaching Approach\
This programme is delivered with a variety of learning and teaching approaches to include all students learning styles and preferences.

For all modules, theory lectures are delivered that aim to deliver the core content and provide the underpinning knowledge. The teaching methods focus on facilitating a student centred approach to enhance the independent learning that takes place outside of the classroom.

What is the Contact Time?\
The full-time pathway includes approximately 12 to 14 hours a week, incorporating lectures, seminars, debates and tutorials. You are also expected to carry out a significant amount of private study in addition to contact time (25-30 hours a week). A part-time option is also available.

Students can expect to receive their timetables during induction week.

Progression

Students who successfully complete this foundation degree are guaranteed a place on the BA Floristry Design (Top Up) programme to gain a full degree.

Careers

Upon graduating you can progress into a wide range of careers in the industry at a senior level including: Retail Florist, Freelance Florist, Floristry Business/Venture, Wedding Planner, Corporate Events Planner, Overseas Florist.