Landscape Management

The Landscape Management major explores rural and urban ecosystems and the human activities that shape these systems. Parks and public open space, protected areas, residential environments and agricultural landscape provide important ecological, amenity and social values, affording, for example; biodiversity, recreation opportunities and economic products such as food production or housing. The major will provide students with an understanding of how these landscapes function, and their use and importance to society. Students will develop an understanding physical and social components of landscape such as plants , fauna, soils, water, social and economic sub-systems and the complex interrelations between these. Throughout the major, understanding of ecosystems is explored in the context of management issues and strategies, allowing students to develop skills for professional practice in landscape management.

Careers and Further Study

Through its emphasis on solution based learning and practical field work, the landscape management major provides an academic basis for employment in horticulture or natural resource management. It also offers a pathway to professional graduate programs such as Master of Urban Horticulture, Master of Forest Ecosystem Science and the Master of Environment. For more information on these graduate programs please visit the Melbourne School of Land and Environment web site: http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/courses/postgrad/courses.html

Core subjects for the Landscape Managment major

Bachelor of Environments students majoring in Landscape Management must complete the following core subjects:

• Integrated Landscape Management (to be introduced in 2010); PLUS

Selective core subjects

Bachelor of Environments students majoring in Landscape Management must select 37.5 points from the following list of selectives:

• Managing Fauna (available from 2010)
• Fire in the Australian Landscape (available from 2010)
• Vegetation and Conservation (available from 2010); PLUS

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

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

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