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Master of Landscape Architecture (MC-LARCH2Y) // Course structure

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Course structure

All students must complete

  • Core subjects - 150 points (including the capstone subject: ABPL90375 Landscape Architecture Design Thesis)
  • Landscape architecture electives - 25 points
  • Graduate School electives - 25 points

Subject options

Core subjects (150 points)

The following subjects are required for accreditation purposes unless equivalence can be demonstrated:

Students may seek approval to replace ABPL90170 Landscape Studio 4: Strategies with a Melbourne School of Design Travelling Studio.

Students may seek approval to replace ABPL90072 Landscape Studio 5: Sustainable Urbanism with a Melbourne School of Design Travelling Studio or alternative design studio approved by the Coordinator of Landscape Architecture program.

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ABPL90172 Landscape Studio 3 Speculations
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25
ABPL90170 Landscape Studio 4 Strategies
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25
ABPL90072 Landscape Studio 5:Sustainable Urbanism
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25
ABPL90078 Contemporary Landscape Theory
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90074 Landscape Detail Design
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90263 Constructed Ecologies
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90048 Landscape Practice
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90375 Landscape Architecture Design Thesis
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25

Landscape architecture electives (25 points)

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ABPL90265 History of Landscape Architecture
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90283 Performative Ecologies
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AUST90007
ABPL90075 Urban and Landscape Heritage
September (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90319 GIS In Planning, Design & Development
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90304 Flexible Urban Modelling
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90374 GeoDesign Models & Applications Not available in 2017 12.5
ABPL90009 Participation and Negotiation
July (On Campus - Parkville)
December (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90380 Designing for Heat in the Public Domain
November (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90340 Landscape Materialities
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90173 Advanced Planting Design
Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
EVSC90022 Bushfire Urban Planning
April (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
EVSC90023 Building Behaviour in Bushfires
May (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90377 Design for Ageing
Term 2 (Online)
 12.5
ABPL90305 Design Research
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ABPL90366 Urban Informatics
September (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Graduate School electives ( 25 points)

Students may choose any masters-level subjects including:

  • Melbourne School of Design graduate subjects provided prerequisites are met
  • Any University of Melbourne graduate subject provided prerequisites are met and written approval from the home faculty plus the Master of Landscape Architecture course coordinator is submitted to the Environments and Design Student Centre.

Click below for a list of Melbourne School of Design Multidisciplinary elective subjects

Multidisciplinary elective subject list

To view a sample course plan go to:

http://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/graduate/subject-options/travelling-studios

http://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/graduate/course-planning/sample-course-plans-melbourne-school-of-design/landscape-architecture-course-plans

 

Last updated: 30 January 2024