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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Planning and Design
The Planning and Design major is intended to off an introduction to professional studies in Urban Planning and Landscape Design, conducted in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning subjects enable students to demonstrate an analytical understanding of urban and landscape planning and design as activities concerned with patterns of urban life and relations with nature. The subjects demonstrate skills in the application of planning and design in the built environment, through studio based project work and concentrate on the creative devising and representations of alternatives.
Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts who have majored in Planning and Design will be eligible for selection into a one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Planning and Design (Urban Planning), which is expected to complete the academic requirements for membership of the Royal Australian Planning Institute. The import of this is that students may acquire a professional Urban Planning qualification from the University of Melbourne in four years of full-time study. Students may also proceed from the Postgraduate Diploma to a one-year Master of Urban Planning program (provided that their Postgraduate Diploma studies have been to an academic standard to satisfy the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning).
Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts who have majored in Planning and Design will be eligible for selection into a one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Planning and Design (Landscape Architecture), and subsequently into a one-year Master of Landscape Architecture (provided that their Postgraduate Diploma studies have been to an academic standard to satisfy the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning). The Master of Landscape Architecture degree is recognised by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects as an academic qualification for membership of the Institute. The effect of this is that a student may acquire a professional Landscape Architecture qualification from the University of Melbourne in five years of full-time study.
A major in Planning and Design requires the completion of five 16.7 point subjects at second and third year level totalling 83.3 points. The required 2nd and 3rd level subjects are to be chosen from the following:
Second and third year subjects
There is additionally a non-mandatory 1st level introductory subject: 705-102 The City in History A: Architecture, Landscape, Construction.
Students intending to proceed to professional studies in Urban Planning are advised to take a major in Planning and Design, and a major in Geography with an emphasis on social geography.
Major in Planning and Design
The major in Planning and Design should normally include the following: 705-274 Introduction to Urban and Landscape Design 705-235 Urban and Landscape Design 2/3 A 705-236 Urban and Landscape Design 2/3 B 705-273 Introduction to Planning and Development 705-217 History of Urban Planning
Major in Geography
The major in Geography should normally include: 121-214 Urban Geography: the Post-Modern City 121-207 Landscapes of Power: New Cultural Geographies Together with three subjects chosen from: 121-204 Development and the Third World 121-218 Australia and the Pacific Rim in a Global Economy 121-219 Environmental Politics and Management 121-303 Sustainable Development 121-235 Emergence of East Asia
Students who wish to proceed to professional studies in Landscape Architecture should take a major in Planning and Design, and a major in Geography with an emphasis on physical geography.
Major in Planning and Design
The major in Planning and Design should normally include: 705-274 Introduction to Urban and Landscape Design 705-235 Urban and Landscape Design 2/3 A 705-236 Urban and Landscape Design 2/3 B 705-294 Plants and Planting Design 705-216 History of Landscape Architecture
Major in Geography
The major in Geography should normally at least four of: 121-212 Geomorphology 121-220 Water Resources 121-213 Plants, People and Changing Environments 121-340 Principles of Ecological Biogeography 121-350 Techniques in Environmental Hydrology 121-341 Techniques in Ecological Biogeography
Other subjects may be taken from those listed under Geography or Environmental Studies.
Honours are not offered in Planning and Design. Further study in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning should be pursued through the Graduate Diploma in Planning and Design (Landscape Architecture) and the Graduate Diploma in Planning and Design (Urban Planning).
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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Planning and Design
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