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
Urban Design and Planning Requirements:
100 level
* 880-107 Urban Environments
* 880-104 Designing Environments
* 880-105 Governing Environments (Highly Recommended)
200 level
* 702-240 Architecture Design Studio 2
* 702-248 Urban Design Studies
* 702-246 Urban History
* 702-247 Contemporary Planning Issues
300 level
* *ABPL30042 Urban Landscape Studio
* *ABPL3XXXX Urban Precinct Studio
* *ABPL3XXXX Morphological Mapping
Major Selectives:
Two of:
200 level
* 702-214 Property Market Analysis
* 121-209 Inside the City of Diversity
300 level
* *ABPL2XXXX Principles of Urban Planning
* 702-363 Site Tectonics
