Course description
All Bachelor of Environments students must complete the following first year subjects:
880-101 Natural Environments
An understanding of natural systems is crucial for sustainable management and design. This core subject of the Bachelor of Environments degree introduces students to the main systems that shape the natural world. The subject examines the evolution of... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
880-102 Reshaping Environments
This subject explores how environments shape us and we humans reshape the environment. It examines human attitudes to, impacts on and interactions with the environments in which we live by considering ‘natural', transformed and built... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
PLUS four subjects from the following list:
880-103 Constructing Environments
What are the structural principles and material properties that underpin the form and fabric of the natural and built environments? Through analysis, observation, experimentation, testing and review, students will explore examples and applications fr... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
880-104 Designing Environments
This subject provides an introduction to how people identify needs and wants and devise ways of satisfying them through built or engineered manipulation of the environment. Students will consider the antecedents, processes, actors and consequences of... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
880-105 Governing Environments
Natural and built environments and their resources have been the source of conflicting claims over rights of access, ownership and use. These contests have in turn led to the creation of a wide range of approaches to regulate such claims. In this sub... Semester 1 12.50
880-106 Mapping Environments
In this subject students will learn how information is used to support decision making in urban and rural environments. This includes methods of data collection, mapping, information communication through visualisation, and decision-support systems. ... Semester 2 12.50
880-107 Urban Environments
To understand why cities have become the most common living environment today, this subject will be built around three questions: what is ‘the urban' and why have cities formed and expanded?; how do we analyse the environments of con... Semester 2 12.50
880-108 Virtual Environments
To plan or design requires the imagining of worlds yet to exist. Drawings and models undertaken with analogue or digital media operate as virtual environments that articulate proposals for environmental change in the physical world. An understanding ... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
Landscape Architecture Requirements:
100 level
* 880101 Natural Environments
* 880102 Reshaping Environments
* 880-108 Virtual Environments
* 880-104 Designing Environments (highly recommended)
At least two of the following 200 level subjects:
* 702-249 Explorations (Landscape Studio 1)
* 702-239 Architecture Design Studio 1
* 702-251 Site Planning and Design (Landscape Studio 2)
Plus
200 level
* 207-250 Greening Landscapes
* 702-250 History of Designed Landscapes
* 207-298 Designing with Plants
300 level
* *ABPL30042 Urban Landscape Studio (Landscape Studio 3)
* *ABPL30043 Designed Ecologies (Landscape Studio 4)
* 702-363 Site Tectonics
* *ABPL3XXXX Case Studies in Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture practice ranges across all scales of design, from largescale public projects such as the Olympic Parks in Sydney and Beijing, to suburban development, to smaller urban spaces and gardens.
Providing a unique bridge between the design professions and the environmental sciences, Landscape Architecture offers creative opportunities to engage in core ecological, cultural, and social issues faced today. There is currently a worldwide shortage of landscape architects.
Students of Landscape Architecture are attracted to its creativity and diversity, its challenges and demands. This major explores the practice, theory, history, and long-standing ecological sensibilities of the discipline.
By the end of the three-year Bachelor of Environments degree with a Landscape Architecture major, you will have developed a strong base of design knowledge and technical skills across the landscape architecture discipline. You will be prepared for the two-year Master of Landscape Architecture program to become an accredited landscape architect
