• Pre-2012 rules
    • 2. Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts Rules
      • Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts Rules for undergraduate courses
        • 2.2 Bachelor's degrees
          • 2.2.7 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture pass and honours degree (25140) Only available to re-enrolling students.

            Note: This course is only available to re-enrolling students. Re-enrolling students should contact the ALVA Student Office via askUWA for a revised study plan in line with the University Policy on: Courses: Transition Arrangements (Undergraduate).

            Applicability of the Student Rules, policies and procedures

            2.2.7.1(1) The Student Rules apply to students in this course.

            (2) The policy, policy statements and guidance documents and student procedures apply, except as otherwise indicated in the rules for this course.

            Pass degree
            Course structure

            2.2.7.2 The course consists of units to a total value of 192 points comprising—

            (a) all units in Table 2.2.7a (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture pass degree core units)—180 points

            and

            (b) one unit from Group A in Table 2.2.7b (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture pass degree options)—6 points

            and

            (c) one unit from Group B in Table 2.2.7b (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture pass degree options)—6 points

            and

            (d) professional work experience as set out in Rule 2.2.7.4.

            Prerequisites

            2.2.7.3 Unless the Faculty permits otherwise in exceptional circumstances, a student—

            (a) must complete all requirements of a level before being permitted to enrol in any Design units of a higher level;

            (b) must not take any Level 3 unit of the course without having successfully completed all Level 1 requirements;

            (c) must not take any Level 4 unit of the course without having successfully completed all Level 2 requirements.

            Professional work experience

            2.2.7.4(1) Before qualifying for the degree, a student must have completed at least 16 weeks of full-time, or the equivalent part-time, professional work experience considered appropriate by the Faculty.

            (2) Of the period of professional work experience required, students must complete at least four weeks full-time, or the part-time equivalent, prior to commencing the final 48 points of study in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture.

            (3) Of the period of professional work experience required, students must complete at least eight weeks full-time, or the part-time equivalent, under the supervision of a registered landscape architect.

            (4) Any professional work experience gained must be for a minimum period of four consecutive weeks with one employer.

            (5) Students must make their own arrangements for professional work experience with advice from the Associate Dean.

            (6) Students must provide proof of their professional work experience in accordance with the guidelines available from the Faculty.

            (7) The Faculty may waive or vary the requirement for professional work experience if it is satisfied that the conditions of (1) to (6) cannot be met.

            Time limit

            2.2.7.5(1) Unless the Faculty approves an extension, the time limit is eight years from the beginning of the semester in which the first unit is credited towards the degree.

            [Approved exception to University Policy]

            (2) Where a student is permitted to credit a unit or units from a completed degree course, the credit dates from the year of first enrolment in the course for the degree of Bachelor of Landscape Architecture.

            (3) Where a student is permitted to credit a unit or units from an incomplete degree course, the credit dates from the year in which the unit or units concerned were passed.

            Honours degree
            Admission

            2.2.7.6(1) The admission requirements are—

            (a) completion of the Level 1, 2 and 3 requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from this University with an average weighted mark of at least 65 per cent;

            and

            (b)(i) for students who intend to pursue the Landscape Honours Dissertation option, a mark of at least 70 per cent in LACH3320 Landscape Theory: Culture of Nature and completion of LACH4420 Research in Landscape Architecture at a sufficiently high level; or

            (ii) for students who intend to pursue the Landscape Honours Studio option, a mark of at least 70 per cent in each of LACH3301 Landscape Urban Studio and LACH3302 Landscape Garden Studio and completion of LACH4420 Research in Landscape Architecture at a sufficiently high level;

            and

            (c) for students who intend to pursue the Landscape Honours Studio option, completion of LACH4401 Landscape Detail Studio at a sufficiently high level.

            (2) A student who has obtained a fail grade for any Level 3 or 4 unit will not be considered for the award of honours.

            (3) In exceptional circumstances, the Faculty may permit a student who does not meet the requirements set out in (1) and (2) to study for the degree with honours.

            Course structure

            2.2.7.7(1) The course consists of the course for the pass degree as set out in Rule 2.2.7.2 but including either—

            (a) LACH4402 Landscape Honours Studio instead of LACH4403 Landscape Design Studio;

            or

            (b) LACH7721 Landscape Honours Dissertation instead of the unit required under Rule 2.2.7.2(c).

            (2) Students are permitted to complete both LACH4402 Landscape Honours Studio and LACH7721 Landscape Honours Dissertation as part of their honours course if they have satisfied the appropriate admission requirements for those units.

            Grade of honours

            2.2.7.8 The grade of honours to be awarded is determined on the basis of a student’s performance in the course in accordance with the Faculty’s honours policy.

            Submission dates

            2.2.7.9(1) Unless the Faculty permits otherwise, the dissertation required for LACH7721 Landscape Honours Dissertation must be submitted no later than two weeks prior to the last day of the last teaching week of the semester in which it is to be completed.

            (2) Unless the Faculty permits otherwise, the work for LACH4402 Landscape Honours Studio must be submitted no later than the last teaching day of the semester in which it is to be completed.

            Examination of dissertation

            2.2.7.10 The Faculty must appoint two examiners for each dissertation, who provide written reports.

            • Table 2.2.7a—Bachelor of Landscape Architecture pass degree core units
              Key to availability of units:
              S1 = Semester 1; S2 = Semester 2; SS = Summer teaching period;
              T1 = Trimester 1; T2 = Trimester 2; T3 = Trimester 3;
              NS = non-standard teaching period; OS = offshore teaching period;
              N/A = not available in 2019; * = to be advised

              Note: The unit availability does not form part of the rules and may be subject to change; refer to Timetable to latest information.

              All units have a value of six points unless otherwise stated.

              Level 1

              AvailabilityUnit codeUnit name
              ARCT1100Environmental Design 1a (12 points) 1
              ARCT1120Art and Architectural History 1
              ARCT1130Introduction to the Constructed Environment 1
              ARCT1141Digital Design 1 1
              LACH1101Landscape Bioregional Studio (12 points) 1
              VISA1102Art: Idealism to the Everyday 1

              1 This unit is no longer available.

              Level 2
              AvailabilityUnit codeUnit name
              LACH2201 Landscape Rural Studio (12 points) 1
              LACH2202 Landscape Suburban Studio (12 points) 1
              LACH2220 Landscape in Australia 1
              LACH2230 Landscape Technology 2 1
              LACH2240 Landscape Ecology 1
              LACH2250 Landscape Computing 2 1

              1 This unit is no longer available.

              Level 3
              AvailabilityUnit codeUnit name
              LACH3301Landscape Urban Studio 1 (12 points)
              LACH3302Landscape Garden Studio 1 (12 points)
              LACH3320Landscape Theory: Culture of Nature 1
              LACH3330Landscape Technology 3
              PLNT3331Plants in Managed Landscapes 1

              1 This unit is no longer available.

              Level 4
              AvailabilityUnit codeUnit name
              LACH4401Landscape Detail Studio (12 points)
              LACH4403Landscape Design Studio (12 points)
              N/ALACH4414Landscape Professional Documents
              LACH4420Research in Landscape Architecture
              N/ALACH4460Landscape Practice
            • Table 2.2.7b—Bachelor of Landscape Architecture pass degree options
              Key to availability of units:
              S1 = Semester 1; S2 = Semester 2; SS = Summer teaching period;
              T1 = Trimester 1; T2 = Trimester 2; T3 = Trimester 3;
              NS = non-standard teaching period; OS = offshore teaching period;
              N/A = not available in 2019; * = to be advised

              Note: The unit availability does not form part of the rules and may be subject to change; refer to Timetable to latest information.

              All units have a value of six points unless otherwise stated.

              Group A
              AvailabilityUnit codeUnit name
              ARCT2210Architecture: Modern History 1
              ARCT2220Architecture: Australian Studies 1
              ARCT3310History and Theories of the Built Environment 1
              ARCT3320Architecture: Special Elective Studies 1
              ARCT3391Sharing Space 1
              N/AHART2207Caravaggio and the Baroque
              N/AHART2234Film Noir to the New Wave
              N/AHART2243Imagist Avant-Garde Film
              HART2266Aboriginal Contemporary Art
              N/AHART3310Art and Games: from Dada to Data
              S1HART3330Art Writing
              N/AHART3340Materialist Avant-Garde Film
              N/AHART3375Twenty-first Century Art
              VISA2203Art in Australia 1
              VISA2204Art and Ecology in Digital Culture 1
              VISA2211The Big Picture: Recurring Themes in Western Art and Architecture 1
              VISA2213Art: Special Studies
              VISA2214Aesthetic Crossovers of Art and Science
              VISA2216Art, Place and Identity 1
              VISA2227Feminist Interventions in Art 1
              VISA2228Feminist Theory and Practice 1
              VISA2232Art of Drawing 2
              VISA2237Nineteenth-century British Art
              VISA2241History of Industrial Design 1
              VISA2244Art of Sculpture
              VISA2245Transcultural Desires 1
              VISA2246Video Art
              VISA2248American Visual Culture
              VISA2249Art and Life Manipulation
              VISA2250The Body in Art 1
              VISA2251Art in the Environment
              VISA2252Art, Alchemy and Shamanism 1
              VISA2267Perth Visual Culture: Internationalism and Modernisation 1870–1930 1
              VISA2268Surrealism
              VISA2269Studies in the Renaissance: Italian Art History and Theory of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 1
              VISA3320Art of the Reformation 1
              VISA3360Painting into Film: the Reversed Canvas from Velazquez to Antonioni 1
              VISA3370Art and Pop 1
              VISA3385Cubism and its Diasporas 1
              VISA3390The Grand Tour: Visual and Verbal Contrasts from the Age of Enlightenment to the Era of Mass Tourism 1

              1 This unit is no longer available.

              Group B
              AvailabilityUnit codeUnit name
              ARCT5503Built Work: Architecture in Construction
              N/AARCT5511Utopia/Disaster and Imagining the City
              ARCT5514Practical and Theoretical Problems in Global Design Practice (B): History/Theory Stream
              ARCT5515High Density: the Urban Model
              ARCT5516Daguerre to Digital
              N/AARCT5580Advanced Architectural Animation
              N/AARCT5581Key Texts
              ARCT5582Non-Western Architecture 1
              ARCT5583Introduction to Architectural Conservation
              ARCT5584Publications
              ARCT5585City as Site
              S2ARCT5586Australian Architecture in a Global Setting
              ARCT5587Urban Design
              N/AARCT5588Westralian Architecture
              S1ARCT5589Furniture Design
              S2ARCT5590Architectural Studies

              1 This unit is no longer available.