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Landscape Design (HORT90034)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Burnley)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Academic Support Officer - Vicki Mimis
Email: v.mimis@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9035 6842
Overview
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This subject will provide an overview of landscape design and the broader landscape industry; discuss landscape design principles and their application to practice; explore garden history and prominent garden designers; describe the residential landscape design process and planting and materials design. Guest speakers from industry will contribute to the subject.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, student should:
- Describe the design process from client brief through site analysis to finished design and design documentation.
- Outline professional responsibilities of designers and clarify the roles and needs of professional support
- Discuss historical and contemporary gardens and their influence in design inspiration, including Melbourne’s garden history
- Communicate appropriate design solutions for different sites, resolving problems through this process.
- Apply learned design principles to a simple residential garden design.
- Describe the design functions and aesthetics of different planting and materials used in landscape design
Generic skills
• Sourcing, interpreting and applying information from written and electronic sources to individual tasks;
• Use scientific and technical literature to answer specific questions;
• Time management and the meeting of deadlines;
• Report on an experimental procedure using scientific conventions;
• Retrieval, from a range of paper-based and electronic sources, of information required to develop understanding of a topic, and the use of this information, with appropriate recognition, in report writing.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- An garden design portfolio proposal, equivalent to 1000 words 20% (due early semester),
- A garden design portfolio equivalent to 3000 words 60 % (due end of semester) and
- A presentation of 15 minutes duration 20% (during semester).
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Andrew Laidlaw Mode of delivery On Campus (Burnley) Contact hours 42 hours of lectures/seminars/workshops. Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
Academic Support Officer - Vicki Mimis
Email: v.mimis@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9035 6842
Time commitment details
In addition to face-to-face teaching time of 42 hours, students should expect to undertake a minimum of 170 hours research, reading, writing and general study to complete this subject successfully.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Nil
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Certificate in Garden Design Course Graduate Diploma in Urban Horticulture Course Master of Urban Horticulture - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 3 November 2022