Landscape Architecture

Major/Minor/Specialisation !B-ENVS-MAJ+1006 (2009)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2009. Search for this in the current handbook

Year and Campus: 2009

Coordinator

Dr Margaret Grose

Contact

Environments and Design Student Centre
Old Commerce Building
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010
T:+61 3 8344 6417
F: +61 3 8344 5532
E: envs-courseadvice@unimelb.edu.au
Overview:

Landscape Architecture is a design profession which provides a unique bridge between design and the environmental sciences. This major explores the practice, theory, history, and long-standing ecological sensibilities of the discipline. Landscape Architecture ranges across all scales of design encompassing large-scale public projects such as the Olympic Parks in Sydney and Beijing, to suburban development, to smaller urban spaces and gardens.

Careers and Further Study

A major in Landscape Architecture prepares you either for employment or the two-year Master of Landscape Architecture program to become an accredited landscape architect. For more information about the Master of Landscape Architecture, please visit the Melbourne School of Design web site: http://abp.unimelb.edu.au/graduate-school

Objectives:

By the end of the three-year Bachelor of Environments degree with a Landscape Architecture major, you will have developed a strong base of design knowledge and competence across the landscape architecture discipline. For more information visit:

www.benvs.unimelb.edu.au

Subject Options:

Second year core subjects for the Landscape Architecture major

Students completing the Bachelor of Environments and majoring in Landscape Architecture must complete the second year core subjects outlined below. It is expected that students take a minimum of one studio subject per semester in their second and third years.

In second year students must take two of the following three studio subjects:

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Semester 2
12.50

Third year core subjects for the Landscape Architecture major

Students completing a major in Landscape Architecture must complete the third year core subjects outlined below. Please note these subjects will be available from 2010.

  • Case Studies in Landscape Architecture;
  • Site Tectonics;
  • Urban Landscape Studio (Landscape Studio 3)
  • Designed Ecologies (Landscape Studio 4)

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Breadth subjects

All Bachelor of Environments students must complete 75 credit points of subjects selected from those available as breadth for Bachelor of Environments students; including at least one subject at 300-level. For a complete listing of available subjects please see:

https://app.portal.unimelb.edu.au/CSCApplication/faces/htdocs/user/breadth/BreadthSearch.jsp

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Bachelor of Environments Electives

All Bachelor of Environments students must complete 37.5 points of Bachelor of Environments electives. For a complete listing of available subjects please see:

http://www.benvs.unimelb.edu.au/electives

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For more information on this major and to view a sample course plan please visit:

http://www.benvs.unimelb.edu.au/about/fields-of-study/landscape-arch.html

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Related Course(s): Bachelor of Environments

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