Faculty of Arts

 Planning and Design

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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.

 1. Career opportunities, professional recognition and further study

 1.1. Urban 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 (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).

 1.2. Landscape Architecture

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.

 2. Requirements for a major

For 1998, the major in Planning and Design consists of subjects totalling 25 points in first year, and five 16.7 point subjects across second/third years. These subjects are to be chosen from the following:

Planning and Design Major
First-year subjects		Semester
	705-173 Shaping the Metropolis: An Introduction to Urban Planning and Development	1
	705-117 Culture and History in Urban Planning and Design	2
	702-115 Property 1	2
Second-year subjects
	705-274 Introduction to Urban and Landscape Design	1
	705-219 Statutory and Strategic Planning	2
	121-214 Urban Geography: the Post-Modern City	1
	705-235 Urban and Landscape Design 2/3 A	1
	705-236 Urban and Landscape Design 2/3 B	2
	705-294 Plants and Planting Design	1
	705-216 History of Landscape Architecture	2
Third-year subjects
	705-445 Planning Law	2
	705-317 History of Urban Planning	n/a
	702-330 Residential Marketing and Management	1
	705-382 Planning Theory and Politics of Urban Governance	2
	705-441 Origins of Modern Urban Planning	2

There is additionally a non-mandatory 1st level introductory subject: 705-102 The City in History A: Architecture, Landscape, Construction.

 3. The BA as pathway to Urban Planning

An interest in Urban Planning or in proceeding to professional studies in Urban Planning should be followed through choice from the following subjects within the major. Students with this interest should also take a major in Geography and Environmental Studies, specialising in urban and social geography. It is possible to group subjects to form a range of planning specialisations within the Arts degree, drawing subjects from within this major and from the Geography major that is also to be taken: specialisations to consider are Planning and public policy, Planning and property, Planning and urban design, Planning and urban infrastructure, Planning and the environment.

Major in Planning and Design
First-year - any two of:		Semester
	705-173 Shaping the Metropolis: An Introduction to Urban Planning and Development	1
	705-117 Culture and History in Urban Planning and Design	2
	702-115 Property 1	2
Second and third year subjects
	Five subjects are to be chosen from the following lists:
	705-274 Introduction to Urban and Landscape Design	1
	705-219 Statutory and Strategic Planning	2
	121-214 Urban Geography: the Post-Modern City	1
Third and fourth year subjects
	705-445 Planning Law	2
	705-371 Shopping and Retailing in Local Development	1
	702-330 Residential Marketing and Management	1
	705-382 Planning Theory and Politics of Urban Governance	2
	705-441 Origins of Modern Urban Planning	2

Major in Geography and Environmental Studies
	The major in Geography and Environmental Studies would normally include any two first-year subjects in Geography and:
	121-214 Urban Geography: the Post-Modern City	1
	121-207 Landscapes of Power: New Cultural Geographies	1
	Together with three subjects chosen from:
	121-204 Development and the Third World	2
	121-218 Australia and the Pacific Rim in a Global Economy	1
	121-219 Environmental Politics and Management	1
	121-303 Sustainable Development	2
	121-235 The Emergence of East Asia	n/a
	121-277 The Mobile World: Geographies of Migration and Tourism	n/a
	121-221 Urban Environments	2
	121-208 Society and Environments	2
	121-254 GIS and Remote Sensing in Geography	2

 4. The BA as pathway to Landscape Architecture

An interest in Landscape Architecture or in proceeding to professional studies in Landscape Architecture should be followed through choice from the following subjects within the major. Students with this interest should also take a major in Geography and Environmental Studies, specialising in physical and environmental geography.

Major in Planning and Design
First-year subjects		Semester
	705-117 Culture and History in Urban Planning and Design	2
	702-115 Property 1	2
Second and third year subjects
	705-274 Introduction to Urban and Landscape Design	1
	705-235 Urban and Landscape Design 2/3 A	1
	705-236 Urban and Landscape Design 2/3 B	2
	705-294 Plants and Planting Design	1
	705-216 History of Landscape Architecture	2

Major in Geography and Environmental Studies
	The major in Geography would normally include any two first-year Geography and Environmental Studies subjects and
	121-208 Society and Environments	2
	with at least four of:
	121-221 Urban Environments	2
	121-303 Sustainable Development	2
	121-220 Water Resources	2
	121-212 Geomorphology	2
	121-340 Principles of Ecological Biogeography	2
	121-350 Techniques in Environmental Hydrology	1
	121-341 Techniques in Ecological Biogeography	2

Other subjects may be taken from those listed under Geography or Environmental Studies.

 5. Entry to Honours

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).

 6. For more information

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