Landscape Architecture major

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.

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.

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://msd.unimelb.edu.au/

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

112.5 points (9 subjects) of Landscape Architecture subjects.

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;
• 37.5 points (3 subjects)of core first year subjects (Natural Environments, Reshaping Environments and Urban Environments);
• 12.5 (1 subject) of first year subjects that are core to the major (either ENVS10008 Virtual Environments or ENVS10004 Designing Environments).

Students must complete the capstone subject: ABPL30061 Landscape Studio 4: Designed Ecologies

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

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 2013 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 2013 should refer to the handbook entry for the year they commenced in conjunction with the 2013 handbook listings for Environments elective and Breadth subjects.

Level 1 Core subjects - Bachelor of Environments (37.5 points)

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

All of

Level 1 Environments Electives (37.5 points)

Select three of the following subjects.

N.B.

• Either ABPL10003 Visualising Environments or ENVS10004 Designing Environments must be taken by students intending to undertake the Landscape Architecture major.
• ENVS10006 Mapping Environments is recommended.

Landscape Architecture major - core subjects (87.5 points)

All of

Landscape Architecture major - elective subjects (25 points)

Select two of

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.

Breadth restrictions for Landscape Architecture major students

Students undertaking the Landscape Architecture major are not permitted to take as breadth:

• any Botany/Plant Science subjects (subject codes beginning BOTA)

• any Ecology subjects (subject codes beginning ECOL)

• any Horticulture subjects (subject codes beginning HORT)

• any of the following Level 2 or Level 3 Design subjects:

For more information on this major and to view a sample course plan please visit: http://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/sample-course-plans-bachelor-environments

The Bachelor of Environments Landscape Architecture major provides a pathway into the Master of Landscape Architecture. The Master of Landscape Architecture program is recognised and accredited by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).