Landscape Architecture major

Major/Minor/Specialisation !B-ENVS-MAJ+1019 (2012)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2012.

Year and Campus: 2012

Coordinator

Dr Sidh Sintusingha

Contact

Email: ssint@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.

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 students 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/

Objectives:

By the end of the three year Bachelor of Environments degree with a Landscape Architecture major, students 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

Structure & Available Subjects: 112.5 points (9 subjects) of Landscape Architecture subjects.
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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 electives and breadth 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/current/B-ENVS
Subject Options:

The following description of the Landscape Architecture major aligns with the Study Plan Structure viewable on the Portal for students who commenced the Bachelor of Environments in 2011 or later.

The components within the structure of this major have been designed to enforce the requirements of both this specific major and of the course overall, e.g. the requirement that at least 62.5 points of Environments discipline subjects (which can include subjects taken within the major) are taken at each of Level 2 and Level 3.

It is strongly recommended that students refer to the full description of this major.

The layout of this description is not necessarily in the order in which subjects are taken.

E.g. breadth subjects should be taken in a student's first year and the information on breadth is displayed at the end of this entry.

Students who commenced the Bachelor of Environments prior to 2011 should also refer to this description for the 9 subjects (112.5 points) required for the major. These students will need to complete 225 Environments Discipline subjects including a major sequence but are not bound by minimum requirements for total Environments Discipline subjects at Level 2 and Level 3. Refer to the B-ENVS entry in the 2010 Handbook for further details.

Level 1 Core subjects - Bachelor of Environments (25 points)

Core subjects that must be taken by all Bachelor of Environments students.

Both of

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 1, Semester 2
12.50
Semester 1, Semester 2
12.50

Level 1 Environments Electives (50 points)

Select four of the following subjects.

N.B.

  • ENVS10008 Virtual Environments must be taken by students intending to undertake the Landscape Architecture major.
  • ENVS10004 Designing Environments, ENVS10006 Mapping Environments and ENVS10007 Urban Environments are recommended.
Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 1, Semester 2
12.50
Semester 1, Semester 2
12.50
Semester 1, Semester 2
12.50
Semester 1, Semester 2
12.50

Landscape Architecture major - core subjects (87.5 points)

All of
Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 2
12.50

Landscape Architecture major - elective subjects (25 points)

Select two of
Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:

Level 3 Environments elective subject (12.5 points)

Select one x 12.5 point subject at Level 3 from the list of Environments Discipline subjects

Level 2 or Level 3 Environments elective subjects (25 points)

Select two x 12.5 point subjects at Level 2 or Level 3 from the list of Environments Discipline subjects

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 an individual student’s choice of major. Subjects in the Handbook that are marked as available as breadth in the Bachelor of Environments may be subject to further restrictions, depending up which major a student is completing in that course. Detailed information on these Restrictions for Breadth Options is available.
Notes:

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

http://www.benvs.unimelb.edu.au/current-students/course-info/architecture.html

Related Course(s): Bachelor of Environments

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