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Bachelor of EnvironmentsMajorYear: 2019
Landscape Architecture
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Sidh Sintusingha
Email: ssint@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
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Overview
THE COURSE STRUCTURE BELOW ONLY APPLIES TO RE-ENROLLING STUDENTS WHO COMMENCED THEIR STUDIES PRIOR TO 2016
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.
From 2016 double majors are available for certain majors within the Bachelor of Environments. Further information on double majors can be found here: http://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/double-majors.
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/
Intended learning outcomes
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.
Last updated: 8 November 2024
Structure
100 credit points
100 points of Landscape Architecture subjects.
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 2015 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.
From 2016 double majors are available for certain majors within the Bachelor of Environments. Further information on double majors can be found here: http://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/double-majors. If you are interested in any double majors, please check the sample course plan before selecting any elective subjects
PRE-2015 STUDENTS: Students who commenced the Bachelor of Environments prior to 2015 should refer to the handbook entry for the year they commenced in conjunction with the 2015 handbook listings for Environments elective and Breadth subject listings. View 2014 Bachelor of Environments Handbook entry.
Level 1 Environments & Enabling Electives (12.5 points)
In order to complete this major, enrol in ONE of the following subjects:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ENVS10004 | Designing Environments |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ABPL10003 | Visualising Environments |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
IMPORTANT: ENVS10006 Mapping Environments is recommended to be taken as an Environments Elective.
Landscape Architecture major - core subjects (75 points)
All of
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ABPL20047 | Site Tectonics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HORT20026 | Designing with Plants | Semester 1 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
ABPL30042 | Landscape Studio 3: Urban Open Space | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL30049 | Case Studies in Landscape Architecture | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL30061 | Landscape Studio 4: Designed Ecologies | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
Major electives subjects (25 points)
Select two of
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ABPL20027 | Architecture Design Studio: Earth | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL20038 | Explorations (Landscape Studio 1) | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
ABPL20040 | Landscape Studio 2: Site Plan & Design | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
Environments Discipline subjects (50 points)
Choose the total of
- 50 points of Environments Discipline subjects
RULES:
Please note these rules when choosing the Environments Discipline subjects below
- Must complete 12.5 points level 2 subjects
- Must complete 12.5 points level 3 subjects
Select from this list:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
Environments Discipline subjects | No longer available |
Breadth subjects and restrictions for Landscape Architecture major students
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. For detailed information on these Restrictions for Breadth Options view 2016 Handbook
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:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ABPL20027 | Architecture Design Studio: Earth | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL20028 | Architecture Design Studio: Water | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL20030 | Foundations of Architecture | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL20036 | Environmental Building Systems |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ABPL30037 | Architecture Design Studio: Fire |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
ABPL30048 | Architecture Design Studio: Air |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ABPL30050 | Modern Architecture: MoMo to PoMo | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL30051 | Morphological Mapping | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL30053 | Formative Ideas in Architecture | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Notes
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).
Last updated: 8 November 2024
Majors, minors and specialisations
Course planning for a Landscape Architecture major
A major in Landscape Architecture in the Bachelor of Environments consists of:
- 75 points of Landscape Architecture Core subjects;
- 25 points of Major elective subjects;
PLUS
- In first year: 12.5 points of Level 1 enabling subjects required for the major
Specific details of the Bachelor of Environments course structure can be found at:
Last updated: 8 November 2024