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Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:

Master of Landscape Architecture - MLArch8136 - Landscape Architecture

Specialisation Structure
96 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 96 UOC.

Capstone Courses

Students must take 18 UOC of the following courses.

LAND7311
6 UOC
Advanced Landscape Theory and Research
LAND7312
6 UOC
Master Landscape Studio 6: Capstone Part 1
LAND7313
6 UOC
Master Landscape Studio 6: Capstone Part 2

Core Courses

Students must take 54 UOC of the following courses.

LAND7201
6 UOC
Master Landscape Studio 3: The Public Realm
LAND7202
6 UOC
Master Landscape Studio 4: Constructed Ecologies
LAND7301
6 UOC
Master Landscape Studio 5: City as Site
LAND7211
6 UOC
Case Studies in Landscape Architecture
LAND7221
6 UOC
Advanced Urban Landscape Visualisation
BENV7728
6 UOC
Geographical Information Systems and Urban Informatics
LAND7272
6 UOC
Landscape Technology 1: Landscape Performance (Materials and Fabrication)
LAND7321
6 UOC
Landscape Technology 2
LAND1482
6 UOC
Professional Practice for Landscape Architects

Prescribed Electives

Students must take 24 UOC of the following courses, across five areas of focus:
Urban History and Theory
Urban Design and Planning
Communications and Visualisation
Social Agency and Equity
Performance : Environmental and Social

ARCH7214
6 UOC
Architecture and Politics
ARCH7216
6 UOC
Designing Diversity: Architecture and Urbanism in a Multicultural Context
ARCH7218
6 UOC
Urban Climate Change - Mitigation and Adaptation in the Urban Built Environment
ARCH7220
6 UOC
Architecture and Urbanism in Asia
ARCH7304
6 UOC
Architecture and the City
BEIL6000
6 UOC
Mapping Social Justice in the City
BEIL6003
6 UOC
Cinematic Space
BENV6713
6 UOC
Architectural Spatialisation
BENV6725
6 UOC
20th c. Architecture: Modernity to Deconstruction
BENV6731
6 UOC
Contemporary Issues in Urbanism
BENV7307
6 UOC
Writing the City
BENV7320
6 UOC
Presentation Rhetoric
BENV7501
6 UOC
Urban Data Visualisation
BENV7502
6 UOC
Geodesign
BENV7504
6 UOC
Digital Cities
BENV7712
6 UOC
Healthy Built Environments
BENV7811
6 UOC
Urban Renewal
BENV7812
6 UOC
Critical Spatial Thinkers
MUPS0001
6 UOC
Drivers of Urban Change
PLAN7140
6 UOC
Land & Environment Law
PLAN7142
6 UOC
City Equity & Wellbeing
PLAN7145
6 UOC
City Building - Infrastructure Planning
PLAN7157
6 UOC
Engaging Communities
PLAN7321
6 UOC
Implementing Urban Regeneration Projects
SUSD0001
6 UOC
Sustainable Development and the Urban Environment
SUSD0002
6 UOC
Building Ecology and Life Cycle Thinking
SUSD0004
6 UOC
Sustainability and Habitability
SUSD0016
6 UOC
Sustainable Infrastructure
UDES0004
6 UOC
History and Theory of Urban Development and Design
UDES0006
6 UOC
Case Studies in Urban Development and Design
UDES0008
6 UOC
Planning and Urban Development

Elective Requirements

The following courses are core elective for MArch students; limited availability to MLArch students- ARCH7218 Urban Climate Change- ARCH7214 Architecture and politics- ARCH7220 Architecture and Urbanism in Asia- ARCH7304 Architecture and the CityThe following courses are core elective for MUPS students; limited availability to MLArch students- MUPS0001 Drivers of Urban … For more content click the Read More button below.

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