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Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Planning (MC-LARCHUP) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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Generic skills
The Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Planning has been specifically designed around the University of Melbourne graduate attributes, as well as requirements of professional associations.
Graduates of The Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Planning will demonstrate:
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to communicate complex ideas to a range of audiences
- Critical and analytical skills to identify and resolve complex problems
- Ability to learn and use appropriate technologies to develop novel design solution
- Effective organisational, time management and planning skills
- Ability to work collaboratively and productively in groups
Graduate attributes
The Master Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Planning provides graduates with:
- design skills that will contribute to the improvement of our built environment;
- a grounding in the rich lessons of architectural history, theory and technology enabling them to develop innovative architecture, relevant to time and place, people and culture;
- the skills to manage an architectural practice and work within teams;
- the ability to use resources, materials and technologies to produce responsible and sustainable architecture;
- the skills for a variety of planning roles – working in government, for the private sector, in public-private partnerships and in civil society
- specialised skills in land‐use development control, transport planning, environmental planning, strategic planning, advocacy and community development, and urban design is increasing
Last updated: 19 April 2024