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Landscape Architecture
Bachelor of Design (Degree with Honours)Specialisation (formal)Year: 2024
Overview
The honours program in Landscape Architecture gives students the opportunity to complete an advanced course of study, including an independent research project on an area of interest approved by the specialisation coordinator.
Students must achieve a minimum of 65% in all subjects in order to qualify for the awarding of an honours degree.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this specialisation, students should be able to or have acquired:
- An advanced knowledge and understanding of one or more specialised fields of study
- A knowledge of research and design-research methodologies and methods as appropriate to the discipline or areas of practice.
- An understanding of the ethics of research and academic scholarship, and a respect for intellectual integrity.
- An understanding of the context of disciplinary sources, and the place of these sources in current social, environmental, and political contexts.
- Ability to critically evaluate different sources of knowledge, garnered from multiple contexts.
- Critical and analytical skills to identify issues relevant to the design disciplines, and to propose original solutions
- An ability to undertake independent research, using appropriate theories, methodologies, and methods.
- High level written, oral and graphic communication skills.
- Develop a research proposal that addresses an issue relevant to the design disciplines to be examined via critical investigation and research.
- Demonstrate advanced research and communication skills through the formulation of an original proposal, and the interrogation of this proposal via the completion of a related research project.
Last updated: 3 May 2024
Structure
100 credit points
Students undertaking honours in Landscape Architecture must complete
• Research Methods in Design (12.5 points)
• Bachelor of Design Thesis (50 points), consisting of Bachelor of Design Thesis part 1 (12.5 points) and part 2 (37.5 points)
• 37.5 points Elective subjects
Subject Options
Core subjects ( 62.5 points)
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ABPL40053 | Research Methods in Design | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL40054 | Bachelor of Design Honours Thesis-I | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL40055 | Bachelor of Design Honours Thesis -II | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
37.5 |
Elective Subjects(37.5 points)
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ABPL90022 | Healthy Communities | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90266 | Inclusive Cities | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90280 | City Lights: Cities, Culture and History | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
ABPL90320 | Building Resilient Settlements | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90265 | History of Landscape Architecture | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90283 | Ecology for Design | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90075 | Urban and Landscape Heritage | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90380 | Designing for Heat in the Public Domain | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90173 | Advanced Planting Design | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90374 | GeoDesign Models & Applications | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90402 | Design Strategies of Asian Gardens | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
ABPL90319 | GIS In Planning, Design & Development | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ABPL90340 | Landscape Materialities | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
ABPL90304 | Flexible Urban Modelling | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EVSC90022 | Bushfire Urban Planning | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
EVSC90023 | Building Behaviour in Bushfires | September (Online) |
12.5 |
Last updated: 3 May 2024