Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours)
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours)
Overview The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) at UNSW is a four-year full-time degree through which you’ll prepare for a career designing sustainable and beautiful environments. As a landscape architect, you’ll become a creative problem solver, combining art and science to plan, design and manage environment that conserve and celebrate…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Overview
The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) at UNSW is a four-year full-time degree through which you’ll prepare for a career designing sustainable and beautiful environments.
As a landscape architect, you’ll become a creative problem solver, combining art and science to plan, design and manage environment that conserve and celebrate ecology, cultural values and symbolic associations. You’ll be equipped to work with cities and communities around the world, designing the open spaces of the future in response to issues such as urbanisation, migration, sustainability and climate change.
UNSW is the longest established, accredited Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program in Australia. You’ll learn with staff who are both leading researchers and practitioners as you explore design principles, graphic techniques, ecological processes and human modification of the environment.
Work experience is an essential part of this degree, meaning you’ll graduate with the theoretical knowledge, professional skills, and industry connections to launch a career with impact.
Key features
The key features and subject areas of this degree will see you explore landscape architecture through theory and practice, preparing you for diverse and successful careers. These include:
Landscape Architectural Design
Design Communications
Landscape Architectural History and Theory
Landscape Architectural Technology
Natural and Cultural Systems
Professional Practice
Future careers
Landscape architecture is a design profession with a long tradition and increasing relevance as more cities and communities work to create sustainable and beautiful environments in urban and rural settings.
Studying Landscape Architecture, you’ll gain a wide range of experience from design and visual communication, to plant knowledge, innovative materials and ground-breaking technologies, environmental legislation and landscape management, contracts, ethics and tendering. You’ll graduate with the knowledge, practical skills and confidence to go after and succeed in diverse careers with impact.
Potential careers
Start your own practice, planning new developments or private estates
Planning, designing and managing parks and public infrastructure
Designing green roofs and vertical gardens for sustainable buildings
Designing and building recreation facilities such as golf courses, sports grounds, playground and theme parks
Planning subdivisions and town centres
Creating urban designs such as public squares, waterfronts, pedestrian paths and cycleways
Ecological design that minimises environmental stress
Accreditation
Once you’ve graduated and completed a period of approved professional experience, you’ll qualify for corporate membership of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The University of South Australia is a globally connected and engaged university with industry-informed teaching and research that is inventive and adventurous. Ranked in the world’s top 50 under 50^ and with 100% of assessed research rated at or above world-class*, the University is young, innovative and offers students the chance to gain real-world experience.Focused on life beyond the classroom, the University of South Australia offers a practical approach to teaching and learning. Degrees are designed in partnership with industry, giving students opportunities to gain the latest insights and trends and ensuring they graduate career ready.^Ranked in the World’s Top 50 Under 50 – Ranked #29, 2021 QS Top 50 Universities Aged Under 50 and Ranked #46, 2022 THE Young University Rankings*2018 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), 4-digit Fields of Research
