PROGRAMME GOAL AND OBJECTIVES

The BLA is a four-year Honours degree programme that provides core foundation training in skills and knowledge preparing students for professional practice or entry into advanced Master degree programmes.

In the first year, students are introduced to foundational concepts in design: ways of sensing, reading, understanding, and interpreting fundamental landscape elements in forms, structures, materiality, and functions. A basic grounding in the first year includes introduction of landscape architecture, history and theory, and essential landscape representation techniques.

In the second and third years, students progress to acquire more advanced skills in site representation, site analysis, design representation specialized software, and spatial analytical tools. Students begin to synthesize landscape forms, structures, processes and functions with more specialized knowledge in planting design, landscape engineering, and advanced water sensitive urban design.

In the fourth year, students decide how to utilise their unrestricted elective space. Those who stick with landscape architecture offered a choice of two specialisations, one in Landscape Studies and another in Landscape Practice. Both of which further enrich and deepen a students knowledge in the field and to prepare them to enter the workforce.

Upon completion of the four-year programme, students will receive the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) and are eligible to apply for the MLA programme with direct admission into the second year of MLA if they fulfil the necessary criteria for advanced placement credits (APCs).

Curriculum Overview

Required Units

For BLA Students without APCs.