Overview

Study in the capital of urban design

Build on the high-quality work you demonstrated in your undergraduate study with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours). This innovative research-intensive one-year honours degree specialises in public sector landscape architecture and aims to extend your critical and analytical thinking in the form of practical, theoretical and research units, as well as a dissertation.

You’ll benefit from the course’s distinctive Canberra location and will explore the city’s unique context as Australia’s capital and centre of government from a landscape architecture perspective. As such, you’ll examine it not only as a planned, landscaped city perceived by a visionary landscape architect, but also as the centre of a diverse range of regional, rural and remote communities offering infinite landscape architectural possibilities.

Study a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) at UC and you will:

• demonstrate an understanding of the implications of contemporary global challenges, including sustainability, in the context of design, society and the environment
• be aware of the roles and duties of design agencies in addressing social, economic and environmental challenges
• make a positive contribution to a socially just, environmentally responsible and culturally diverse society
• demonstrate design literacy and a critical understanding of design sufficient to contribute to the design profession
• collaborate and strategically problem-solve in multidisciplinary contexts
• demonstrate advanced visual, written and oral communication skills
• articulate a designer’s contribution to complex design challenges involving multiple stakeholders
• contribute to the profession as a designer by demonstrating best practice and ethical behaviour
• perform at a level of professional expertise that allows you to confidently enter the landscape design industry.

Work Integrated Learning

We encourage you to undertake your dissertation exploring and researching a real-world thesis premise of 15,000 to 20,000 words, or an industry-related creative or design project accompanied by a 3,000 to 5,000 exegesis.

Career opportunities

• Landscape architect
• Landscape designer
• Urban designer
• Administrator
• Policymaker
• Landscape assessment officer

Course-specific information

This honours course is available to students who have attained high academic achievement in the Bachelor of the Built Environment (Landscape Architecture) or equivalent from UC, or related programs from other Australian universities. High academic achievement in your undergraduate degree is defined as a grade point average of at least 5.0 (equivalent to a Credit grade average) in your second and third year.

You must undertake the thesis component of your degree in a subject area related to your disciplinary competence and show evidence of having performed at Distinction level or above in subjects relevant to your proposed study.

All applicants must submit the Honours Supplementary Form available at: http://www.canberra.edu.au/student-services/forms

Professional accreditation

This course is accredited by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) in combination with the Bachelor of Landscape Design. More information can be found at: https://www.aila.org.au/iMIS_Prod/AILAWeb/AILA_Accreditation.aspx