C09079v4 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours)
Award(s): Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) (BLArch(Hons))UAC code: 602020 (Autumn session)
CRICOS code: 080270D
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 192
Course EFTSL: 4
Location: City campus
Overview
Course aims
Career options
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Course intended learning outcomes
Admission requirements
Inherent requirements
Applications
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course diagram
Course program
Professional recognition
Other information
Overview
The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) is a four-year honours degree designed to develop skills in design, construction and management associated with natural and built landscapes.
The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Hons) is for students who are interested in design that is nature-based, ecological, community-led, and climate positive. Landscape architecture is a growing profession and graduates secure positions in leading design practices, at home and abroad. Graduates are creative and critical thinkers, skilled in emerging technologies and can practice as a landscape architect and begin their pathway to professional registration, supported by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).
This program also allows students to work at a higher level of academic study in a relevant area of interest. UTS offers graduates the opportunity to apply to the Master of Landscape Architecture (C04270).
Course aims
The course adopts a creative and experimental approach to landscape architecture that challenges convention and champions the importance of healthy and equitable landscapes in urban and regional contexts. The four-year course covers the skills needed to design, construct, manage and advocate for landscapes at home and abroad, across a range of scales. Tuition in the detailed design of public space is complemented by exposure to regenerative and community-based approaches to urbanisation and the design of living infrastructures.
With a focus on studio-based learning design projects will creatively address key challenges, including biodiversity loss and climate change. The generation and testing of ideas in studio subjects is supported by a range of technical and critical studies, including ecology, infrastructure, and construction. When not in dedicated studios and making spaces, students experience unique landscapes on site visits, field trips, travelling studios, or during an optional semester long exchange at a global partner institution.
Career options
This course equips graduates with critical thinking, creativity and the skills to engage across the expanded field of landscape design; take up leading roles in the design of all landscapes in urban and rural contexts; and pursue roles in land management and stewardship, architecture, and urban design.
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Transdisciplinarity and Innovation at UTSAll UTS students have the opportunity to develop distinctive capabilities around transdisciplinary thinking and innovation through the TD School. Transdisciplinary education at UTS brings together great minds from different disciplines to explore ideas that improve the way we live and work in the world. These offerings are unique to UTS and directly translate to many existing and emerging roles and careers.
Diploma in InnovationThe Diploma in Innovation (C20060) teaches innovation, supports personal transformation and provides the hard skills needed to support the inventors and inventions of the future. Students come out of the Diploma in Innovation, with the hard skills to create and support sectoral and societal transformation. Graduates are able to fluently integrate ideas, across professional disciplines and are inventors of the future.
All UTS undergraduate students (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation) can apply for the Diploma in Innovation upon admission in their chosen undergraduate degree. It is a complete degree program that runs in parallel to any undergraduate degree. The course is offered on a three-year, part-time basis, with subjects running in 3-week long intensive blocks in July, December and February sessions. More information including a link to apply is available at https://dipinn.uts.edu.au.
Transdisciplinary electives programTransdisciplinary electives broaden students' horizons and supercharge their problem-solving skills, helping them to learn outside, beyond and across their degrees. Students enrolled in an undergraduate course that includes electives can choose to take a transdisciplinary subject (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation). More information about the TD Electives program is available here.
Course intended learning outcomes
| C.1 | Formulate an ethical position and develop approaches to advocate for equitable and just landscapes that deliver positive impacts. |
| C.2 | Apply effective strategies for collaboration with a range of actors in the process of designing, constructing, and managing landscapes. |
| C.3 | Critically employ design-research methods to develop creative proposals that challenge normative expectations of landscape architecture |
| C.4 | Synthesise advanced theoretical, environmental, and technical knowledge in the creation of conceptually rich, physically refined, contextually informed landscape architecture proposals. |
| C.5 | Generate, test, and communicate landscape propositions by adopting an integrative approach to the use of analogue and digital modes. |
| C.6 | Critically reflect on the Connecting with Country Framework to inform ethical landscape architecture professional capabilities to work with and for Indigenous Australians. |
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
UTS: Design, Architecture and Building may consider applications based on the results of the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) if students lack academic qualifications but have extensive professional experience. The STAT is conducted through Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).
Students must refer to the inherent requirements for all degrees offered by Design and Architecture in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.
Non-current school leavers are selected on the basis of academic merit or on the basis of portfolio and interview rank.
Students must refer to the portfolio eligibility for the faculty’s consideration in order to get a place.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL iBT: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64 with a writing score of 50; or C1A/C2P: 176-184 with a writing score of 169.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are academic and non-academic requirements that are essential to the successful completion of a course. For more information about inherent requirements and where prospective and current students can get assistance and advice regarding these, see the UTS Inherent requirements page.
Prospective and current students should carefully read the Inherent Requirements Statement below and consider whether they might experience challenges in successfully completing this course.
UTS will make reasonable adjustments to teaching and learning, assessment, professional experiences, course related work experience and other course activities to facilitate maximum participation by students with disabilities, carer responsibilities, and religious or cultural obligations in their courses.
For course specific information see the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Inherent (Essential) Requirements Statement.
Applications
International students
International students (excluding those studying in an Australian high school) must submit an application to UTS International (in person, by mail or online) or through an accredited UTS representative.
International students with an ATAR up to five points below the minimum cut-off must submit a six page digital portfolio in PDF format (A4 page size) where:
- the first page includes their name and application number
- five of the pages are digital files of scans and/or photographs of original work appropriate to the course being applied for
- one page is a 150–200-word written submission discussing the aims and relative success of at least one of the submitted pieces of work
The faculty reserves the right to request a portfolio from applicants.
Course duration and attendance
The course duration is four years of full-time study (or equivalent). Year 1 must be taken in full-time mode.
Course structure
The course comprises a total of 192 credit points. The normal full-time load is 24 credit points a session.
Course completion requirements
| STM91202 Core subjects (Landscape UG) | 168cp | |
| CBK90284 Sub-major/Electives | 24cp | |
| Total | 192cp |
Course diagram
Course program
The example program below is for a student commencing in Autumn session and undertaking the course full time.
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11119 Landscape Architecture Studio 1 | 12cp | |
| 11172 Landscape History and Theory 1 | 6cp | |
| 11128 Communications 1 | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11197 Landscape Architecture Studio 2 | 12cp | |
| 11174 Landscape History and Theory 2 | 6cp | |
| 11177 Botany | 6cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11130 Landscape Architecture Studio 3 | 12cp | |
| 11186 Grading and Site Works | 6cp | |
| 11183 Ecology | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11198 Landscape Architecture Studio 4 | 12cp | |
| 11180 Construction | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of options | 6cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11188 Landscape Architecture Studio 5 | 12cp | |
| 11182 Urbanisms | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of options | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11199 Landscape Architecture Studio 6 | 12cp | |
| 11196 Landscape History and Theory 3 | 6cp | |
| 11129 Communications 2 | 6cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11191 Landscape Architecture Studio 7 | 12cp | |
| 11502 Practice: Finance and Project Management | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of options | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11194 Landscape Architecture Studio 8 | 12cp | |
| 11189 Practice: Research Cultures | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of options | 6cp | |
Professional recognition
The course is accredited by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
Other information
Further information is available from:
UTS Student Centre
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