Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Environments

Landscape Architecture is the design of environments such as city squares, urban forests, parks, streets and gardens.

Course Plans

The Landscape Architecture Handbook entry stipulates the complete requirements for the Landscape Architecture major. Always use the University Handbook as your primary course planning tool.

Commenced 2016

Year 1
Semester 1

Changing Melbourne ***

Level 1 Environments elective

Level 1 Environments elective

Breadth

Year 1
Semester 2

Visualising Environments OR
Designing Environments

Level 1 Environments elective

Level 1 Environments elective

Breadth

Year 2
Semester 1

Explorations (Landscape Studio 1) OR Architecture Design Studio: Earth

Environments Elective

Environments Elective

Breadth

Year 2
Semester 2

Landscape Studio 2: OR Architecture Design Studio: Water

Site Tectonics

Designing with Plants  OR Designing Living Systems

Breadth

Year 3
Semester 1

Landscape Studio 3: Urban Open Space

Case Studies in Landscape Architecture (Cancelled) OR Formative Ideas in Architecture

Environments Elective

Breadth OR
Environments Elective

Year 3
Semester 2

Landscape Studio 4:
Designed Ecologies

Environments Elective

Breadth OR
Environments Elective

  First-year subjects   Major subjects   Elective subjects   Breadth subjects   Free points

*** Students who have not completed Changing Melbourne will complete ENVS10002 Reshaping Environments instead


Environments Electives

Environments electives are subjects approved as Environments discipline subjects in the Bachelor of Environments. The full list of Environments electives is available here.

Breadth

Students should refer to the Bachelor of Environments Handbook entry for details of breadth requirements and to access a complete listing of available breadth subjects.

Breadth restrictions in the Landscape Architecture major

Students undertaking the Landscape Architecture major are not permitted to take as breadth:

  • any Botany/Plant Science subjects
  • any Ecology subjects
  • any Horticulture subjects
  • certain Level 2 and 3 Design subjects

Refer to the Landscape Architecture Handbook entry for full details.

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