Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

- Manage client interactions on a landscape project.

- Work with a diverse team to plan, stage and implement a landscape design/build project.

- Provide leadership for their portion of a landscape project.

- Communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders to complete a landscape project.

Gain confidence and experience in working as a team member to design and implement a real world landscape design/build project.

This course will not be a traditional lecture/lab-type course.  Pulling together the skills and expertise of diverse students to design and install a real world project with a client, naturally requires some built in flexibility.  The course will have the following framework:

1. Initial assessment of the project by team members.

2. Brainstorming (approaches and solutions)

3. Team formation and assignments

4. Project design, scheduling and organization

5. Project implementation

6. Project debriefing

To insure that learning is happening at every stage of the process, there will be check-ins at each of the outlined stages where the group will be asked explicitly, "What are we learning?" Outcome assessment strategies (see below) will be inserted in this framework at the designated times.

Completion of assigned tasks.

Weekly team reports.

Weekly debriefings (wrap-ups) that highlight new learning as the process develops.

Reflection paper near the end of the term that includes evaluation of the team, the process and one's self.

Evaluation of the final project.

-Team work and efficieny

-Organization and scheduling

-Leadership