Landscape Architecture

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.

Providing a unique bridge between the design professions and the environmental sciences, Landscape Architecture offers creative opportunities to engage in core ecological, cultural and social issues faced today.

Students of Landscape Architecture are attracted to its creativity and diversity, its challenges and demands. This major explores the practice, theory, history and long-standing ecological sensibilities of the discipline.

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://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/graduate-school/

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

Course Planning for a Landscape Architecture Major

A major in Landscape Architecture in the Bachelor of Environments consists of:

• 112.5 points (9 subjects) of Landscape Architecture subjects;
• 25 points (2 subjects)of core first year subjects (Natural Environments and Reshaping Environments);
• 12.5 points (1 subject) of first year subjects that are core to the major (Virtual Environments).

This is in addition to elective subjects and breadth subjects to make up the 300 points required for the degree. Specific details of the Bachelor of Environments course structure can be found at:

https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2011/B-ENVS

In order to complete a major in Landscape Architecture, you will undertake the following subjects:

1st year level subjects

The following 1st year level subjects are recommended:

2nd year level subjects

AND at least two of the following 2nd year level studio subjects:

3rd year level subjects

(Please note, students who have completed 207-250 Greening Landscapes in 2009, do not need to enrol in Ecology of Urban Landscapes)

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/breadth/elective-subjects.html

Breadth subjects

Bachelor of Environments students must complete between 50 and 75 credit points of subjects selected from those available as breadth for Bachelor of Environments students; with no more than 37.5 points at Level 1. For a complete listing of available subjects please click the 'Find breadth subjects' link on the Handbook homepage and perform a search.

The breadth requirements for the Bachelor of Environments include the restriction of some subjects as breadth options, depending on a individual student’s choice of major. Refer to the Breadth Requirements for the Bachelor of Environments for additional information.

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