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Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Design (MC-LARCHUD) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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Intended learning outcomes
Graduates of the Master of Landscape Architecture/ Master of Urban Design will demonstrate:
Knowledge:
- Advanced design knowledge and skills from studio-based courses that contribute to the improvement of our built, social and natural environments.
- Advanced knowledge of design representation and communication medias.
- Knowledge of landscape architectural historical ideas and theory and critical skills to interpret historical ideas, environmental movements and contemporary trends.
- Knowledge of recent developments in the landscape architecture discipline and professional practice.
- Critical engagement with parameters of cross-disciplinary and international contemporary practice.
- Knowledge of landscape materiality, construction and documentation.
- Knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to the practice of landscape architecture.
- Knowledge in urban design and related areas, enabling them to play an integrating role between the built environment disciplines, including architecture, landscape, and planning.
- Understanding of a broad range of urban design theories, and their practical application.
- Knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to urban studies.
- Understanding of recent developments in the field.
Skills:
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex site attributes, information, challenges and opportunities to develop responsible and ecologically sound and novel design solutions.
- The ability to use resources, materials and technologies to develop responsible and ecologically sound and novel design solutions.
- Cognitive skills to demonstrate mastery of landscape architecture theoretical knowledge and to reflect critically on scholarship and professional practice.
- Communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret landscape architecture design propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- The ability to develop design and research strategies within interdisciplinary teams supported by excellent communication skills.
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories to different bodies of knowledge or practice.
- Communication skills to present projects that contribute to professional practice or scholarship.
Application of knowledge and skills:
- The ability to bridge between the arts and sciences, design and the environment, and engage in core ecological, cultural and social issues in both urban and rural societies.
- The ability to respond with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning.
- The ability to work individually and collaboratively with high level personal autonomy and accountability.
- The ability to think strategically and creatively in addressing key urban design issues.
- The ability to work individually and collaboratively to establish and evaluate requirements and priorities in new project situations and effectively contribute to urban design projects.
- The ability to plan and execute a substantial research-based project, capstone experience and/or piece of scholarship.
Generic skills
The Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Design 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 Design 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
- Effective organisational, time management and planning skills
- Ability to work collaboratively and productively in groups
Graduate attributes
The Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Design 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.
Last updated: 25 April 2024