Bachelor of Design

Landscape Architecture is positioned as an urban laboratory and engages with the urban condition to generate futures for an urbanizing world through the medium of design.The three-year Bachelor of Design program is designed to equip you with broad and coherent skills and applied knowledge for designing landscapes in complex urban and non-urban environments.

Upon completion of the program you will be able to utilize a wide array of abilities and skills as well as cognitive and creative knowledge of landscape architecture to enable you to position your ideas of landscape architecture both in the discipline and a broader context.

This knowledge will enable you to utilize design tools and methods in relation to the creation of socially, culturally and environmentally inclusive domains.

Year One of the Program

SEMESTER ONE - Complete the following Three (3) Courses:

SEMESTER TWO - Complete the following Three (3) Courses:

AND

Year Two of the Program

SEMESTER ONE - Complete the following Three (3) Courses:

SEMESTER TWO - Complete the following Two (2) Courses:

Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:

AND

Year Three of the Program

SEMESTER ONE - Complete the following Two (2) Courses:

Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:

SEMESTER TWO - Complete the following Three (3) Coures:

Program entrance requirements:

Successful completion of an Australian Year 12 or equivalent senior secondary school studies, or RMIT Foundation Studies program, or a recognised post secondary diploma or certificate in a relevant discipline. Applicants with post secondary work experience in this field will also be considered.

For equivalents to Australian academic entry requirements, see the Country equivalents web page.

Prerequisites:

Units 3 and 4 – a study score of at least 30 in English (ESL) or at least 25 in any other English.

English language requirements:

• IELTS (Academic): 6.5 (no band less than 6.0)
• TOEFL (Paper based): 580 (TWE 4.5)
• TOEFL (Internet Based Test – iBT): Overall score of 92 with minimum of 20 in any sections
• Pearson Test of English (Academic) (PTE(A)): 58 (no band less than 50)
• Cambridge English – Advanced (CAE): CAE Grade B
• RMIT English Worldwide (REW) – English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs: Advanced Plus certificate

For equivalents to English entry requirements, see the English equivalents web page

Selection Tasks All applicants must complete and submit a pre-selection kit. Short listed applicants may be required to attend an interview.

Applicants must produce a folio of work which might comprise a collection of images, drawings, sketches, paintings, models, photographs, videos, computer work etc of personal projects, events, hobbies, celebrations.

Note: You may be exempt from the Landscape Architecture pre-selection kit if you have successfully completed tertiary study in architecture, industrial design, interior design or horticulture or completed an Advanced Diploma in Building design (Architectural) or Diploma of Drafting/Building Design.

The Bachelor of Design is a specialist degree in landscape architecture. It is distinct in employing a basis of critical enquiry through the activity of design in landscape architecture. You will work on real world problems and produce critical design responses with the feedback from experts, academic and professional practitioners who will guide you to produce work that is informed by conceptual and theoretical positions in contemporary context.

You will also employ techniques such as material testing and processes of fabrication and making to study basic principles of landscape construction and formation. By being immersed in a rapidly changing urban landscape and working with the conditions of growth and urbanity you will gain a strong foundational and applied understanding of the possibilities of the profession in a local and international context.

Upon successful completion of this program of study you will be able to:

• Critically apply a broad and coherent body of knowledge incorporating ecological, cultural, economic and ethical issues of landscape architecture in the medium of design using a range of design methods and practices.
• Engage in design practice that is characterised by creative and critical thinking skills, analysis, and synthesis.
• Communicate using a range of forms and media to clearly and coherently present ideas that are informed by the underlying principles and concepts of the technical and theoretical frameworks of landscape architecture.
• Assume responsibility for own ongoing learning and use initiative and informed judgment to position ideas of practice in landscape architecture and across disciplines.
• Reference technical and theoretical frameworks of landscape architecture to describe, critique, modify and adapt relevant and innovative forms of design for professional work in the discipline.
• Demonstrate the capacity for design practice to be an agent for problem solving and change; and engage this understanding to make design decisions with some independence.