Faculty of Arts Planning and Design

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1. Faculty of Arts requirements
2. Requirements for a major
    2.1. The BA as a pathway to urban planning
    2.2. The BA as pathway to landscape architecture
3. Honours
4. Career opportunities
    4.1. Urban planning
    4.2. Landscape architecture
5. For more information

Conveners: Professor Ruth Fincher (Urban Planning) and Professor Catherin Bull (Landscape Architecture)

The major in planning and design is designed as an introduction to professional studies in urban planning and landscape architecture, 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. Faculty of Arts requirements

Students undertaking the Bachelor of Arts are permitted to enrol in a range of subjects offered by other faculties, but must complete a minimum of 50 points of first-year subjects in areas of study approved by the Faculty of Arts. See Arts-approved subject requirement for more information.

2. Requirements for a major

A major in planning and design usually consists of nine subjects, totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:

• two first-year planning and design subjects (25 points); and

• seven second/third-year subjects in planning and design (87.5 points).

2.1. The BA as a pathway to urban planning

Students interested in urban planning, or interested in proceeding to professional studies in urban planning should construct a planning and design major from the following subjects. Students interested in postgraduate studies in urban planning should also complete a major in geography and environmental studies, specialising in urban and social geography.

It is also possible to group subjects within both majors to form a range of planning specialisations within the arts degree; specialisations to consider are planning and public policy, planning and property, planning and urban design, planning and urban infrastructure, planning and the environment.

2.2. The BA as pathway to landscape architecture

Students who are interested in landscape architecture or intend to proceed towards professional studies in landscape architecture should construct a major from the following subjects. Students interested in postgraduate studies in landscape architecture should also complete a major in geography and environmental studies, specialising in physical and environmental geography.

Other subjects may be taken from those listed under geography or environmental studies.

3. Honours

There is no honours program in planning and design. Further study post-landscape architecture and urban planning should be pursued through the Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture and the Graduate Diploma in Planning and Design (Urban Planning).

4. Career opportunities

4.1. Urban planning

Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts who have majored in planning and design, and completed a specified major in geography will be eligible for selection into a one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Planning, which is expected to complete the academic requirements for membership of the Planning Institute of Australia. 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).

4.2. Landscape architecture

Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts who have majored in planning and design, and completed a specified major in geography 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.

5. For more information

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Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
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The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 6430/6450
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