Architecture
and
Planning
Faculty of
Architecture and Planning
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HE University of Melbourne introduced Australia's first studies in architecture in the 1860s. It established the first full-time architecture course in 1927. Since then courses in other disciplines of the built and natural environment have followed and now the Faculty of Architecture and Planning trains architects, builders, quantity surveyors, environmentalists, landscape architects and urban planners.It aims to produce professionals skilled in investigation, analysis, problem-solving and communication and motivated to contribute significantly to professional and community life.
Courses are presented at pre-professional, professional and higher degree levels.
As the first part of their training students undertake the Bachelor of Planning and Design (BPD) degree course, a three-year (minimum) pre-professional program with a full-time honours fourth year open to students who do particularly well.
The BPD provides students with preparatory studies leading to professional qualifications in architecture, building, quantity surveying, environmental studies, landscape architecture or urban planning.
Students enrolling in the BPD choose major studies
List of courses
Master of Building MBldg
Master of Environmental Studies MEnvS Master of Landscape Architecture MLArch Master of Urban Planning MUP
Higher degrees by research Master of Architecture MArch Master of Building MBIdg
Master of Environmental Studies MEnvS Master of Landscape Architecture MLArch Master of Town and Regional
Planning MTRP
Doctor of Architecture DArch Doctor of Philosophy PhD Pre-professional
Bachelor of Planning and Design BPD Bachelor of Planning and Design
(Honours) BPD(Hons) Professional
Bachelor of Architecture BArch Bachelor of Architecture
(Honours) &trch(Hons) Bachelor of Building BB/dg Bachelor of Town and Regional
Planning BTRP
appropriate to the professional stream in which they wish to specialise at post-BPD level.
Most of the subjects taken at BPD level in architecture, building and quantity surveying are compulsory. Environmental studies, landscape architecture and urban planning, however, offer more scope for elective studies.
On completing the BPD most graduates continue their studies in the Faculty by entering either the BPD (Hons) year. and then a master's course, or one of the post-BPD bachelor degree courses (Architecture, Building or Town and Regional Planning).
To gain a professional qualification, holders of the BPD take an appropriate post-BPD course at either bachelor or masters degree level.
Applications for entry to professional courses are accepted from students who have completed other studies at undergraduate level at Melbourne or elsewhere if they have completed studies equivalent to a BPD. Preliminary studies are available for students who need to make up for a gap in their preparation.
Routes by which students may meet the academic requirements for full professional entry to the following professions are:
Architecture: Complete the BPD (three years), one yearof practical training and then the Bachelor of Architecture, which takes an additional two years.
Building or Quantity Surveying: Complete the
Objectives of the Faculty
The general objectives of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning are to:
• establish opportunities for exploring, debating and communicating environmental, planning, design, construction and management issues
• develop research programs in architecture, building and quantity surveying, urban planning, environmental planning, landscape architecture and other areas involved in the transformation and management of the built and natural environment
• produce graduates who have professional commitment, well- developed problem-solving and communication skills, and who will make a maximum contribution to the community and maintain the habit of curiosity and inquiry
• contribute actively to the discussion and solution of major community problems.
BPD (three years) and the Bachelor of Building (one year) or the BPD (Hons) (four years) and the Master of Building by coursework (one year full time or two years part time). All students must complete one year of practical training before entering the post-BPD course.
Environmental Planning: Complete the BPD (Hons) (four years) plus the Master of Environmental Studies by coursework (one year).
Landscape Architecture: Complete the BPD (Hons) (four years) plus the Master of Landscape Architecture by coursework (one year)
Urban Planning: Complete the BPD (Hons) (four years) plus the Master of Urban Planning by coursework (one year); or complete the BPD (three years) plus the Bachelor of Town and Regional Planning (one year).
The Faculty maintains close links with five professional institutes, each of which recognises and accredits academic qualifications awarded by the Faculty. They are the Australian Institute of Building, Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture, Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, and Royal Australian Planning Institute.
Research activity is maintained at a high level, taking in key areas such as planning and design, construction and cost management, history and conservation of the built and natural environments.
Masters degrees by research can be taken in Architecture, Building, Environmental Studies, Landscape Architecture and Town and Regional Planning. Candidates are expected to complete a major research study and prepare a thesis based on the research project. In architecture, they may choose to undertake design work instead of research. In all cases only applicants with an appropriate academic background are admitted.
In some cases preliminary studies maybe approved for this purpose.
Prerequisites for entry to individual courses are noted briefly under course outlines for each faculty. Detailed information about University entrance requirements and principles of selection appears in the Appendix.
Planning a professional degree course
ARCHITECTURE
Bachelor of Planning and Design Bachelor of Architecture (Pass or Honours)
The Architecture courses aim to develop competent and responsible architects with the vigour, adaptability, leadership and skill to design and construct buildings sensitive to cultural, social, physical and economic conditions.
Staff aim to develop in students an awareness of the world at large and to foster attitudes likely to enhance the quality of the built and social environments.
The courses take five years full-time. They consist of the BPD (three years) and the BArch (Pass or Honours) which takes two years. Aftercompleting the BPD students must gain a year's practical experience before doing the BArch.
Progress through the courses is by years rather than individual subjects. Each year has certain required subjects. Subject areas include history of architecture, architectural theory, building science, building construction and structures, services and environmental control, professional practice, computer graphics and architectural design.
Architectural design is central to the course, occupying from a quarter to more than a third of each year's program.
The course satisfies the academic requirements for registration by the Architects Registration Board of Victoria and for membership of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
An additional requirement for registration is a minimum of two years of approved professional experience in architecture.
Students taking the professional architecture courses are required to pass all subjects and obtain the requisite number of points (normal course load is 100 points a year) before moving to the next year of study. Electives must be passed in the same year of study.
The following course plan illustrates how the BPD degree in the Architecture stream may be constructed.
5 and Professional Practice B and includes Town Planning, Control of Building Projects, and electives.
Master of Architecture
The MArch may be undertaken either by research and submission of a thesis, or by design involving Points preparation of a series of designs with
accompanying dissertation.
Doctor of Architecture
The DArch may be awarded to a person who submits for examination published or unpublished works which provide evidence of research and which constitute a definite contribution to architecture.
Bachelor of Planning and Design (Architecture)
First year
Architectural Design 1 Building Construction l A Building Construction 1B European Architecture Building Science lA Building. Science 1 B TOTAL
25.0 12.5 12.5 25.0 12.5 12.5 100.0
Second year Points
Architectural Design 2 25.0
Architectural Theory 2 25.0
Building Construction 2A 12.5 Building Construction 2B 12.5
Building Science 2A 12.5
Building Science 2B (Computer Aided
Design and. Drafting) 12.5
TOTAL 100.0
Third year Points
Architectural Design 3 25.0
Building Construction 3A 12.5 Building Construction 3B 12.5
Modem Architecture 25.0
Building Science 3A 12.5
Electives 12.5
TOTAL 100.0
Bachelor of Architecture
Graduates of the BPD (Architecture) normally go on to do the professional BArch degree (another two years) after one yea; of practical experience.
Units in the first year of the BArch program include Architectural Design 4, Australian Architecture A, Professional Practice A, Advanced (Building) Services, and electives.
Second year continues with Architectural Design
BUILDING
Bachelor of Planning and Design Pass or Honours (Building and Quantity Surveying streams) Bachelor of Building
Master of Building
The emphasis of the courses is on the management of the building process, involving studies in construction management and cost management and in technology. Graduates become project and site managers for building construction projects;
advisers for property investment and development;
materials and product manufacturers and suppliers;
quantity surveyors and cost managers; builders specialising in housing, historic building preservation and renovation, building interiors;
and teachers, researchers.
Training is spread over five years if a student chooses to complete the BPD and the BBldg, or six years if the student takes the MBldg instead of the bachelor degree. This includes a year of practical work experience in building (compulsory for entry to the BBIdg or MBIdg degree courses).
All students take three major studies— in building construction, in construction management and in cost management. Building construction concentrates on the characteristics of materials
University of Melbourne building graduates on a construction site.
and the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors. R Both organisations require two years of approved practical experience for full accreditation and offer student membership.
The following example of a course plan shows how the BPD degree in the professional building stream may be constructed.
Bachelor of Planning and Design (Building)
First year Points
Building Construction 1A 12.5 Building Construction 1B 12.5
Building Science IA 12.5
Building Science 1B 12.5
Building Science 2A 12.5
Economics 1 A 12.5
Cost Management 1B 12.5
Introduction to Surveying 12.5
TOTAL 100.0
Second year Points
Building Construction 2A Building Construction 2B Building Construction 2C Organisational Behaviour Management of Construction 2B Accounting Concepts
Cost Management 2B Elective
12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5
TOTAL 100.0
and structures, the performance of building services such as airconditioning, the design of structural elements, construction detailing and building methods and equipment.
Construction management deals with business administration, industrial relations, law and contracts, and project management. Cost management includes economics, accounting, estimating, life-cycle costing, and property investment analysis.
The courses satisfy the academic requirements for registration by the Australian Institute of Building
Third year (two streams) Points Construction management stream:
Building Construction 3A 12.5 Building Construction 3B 12.5 Building Construction 3C 12.5 Building Construction 3D 12.5
Industrial Relations 12.5
Management of Construction 3B 12.5
Electives 25.0
TOTAL 100.0
Quantity surveying stream:
Building Construction 3A 12.5 Building Construction 3B 12.5 Building Construction 3C 12.5 Building Construction 3D 12.5 Management of Construction 3B 12.5
Cost Management 3A 12.5
Cost Management 3B 12.5
Elective 12.5
TOTAL 100.0
Bachelor of Building
A BPD degree graduate with a year's practical experience ~may ~undertake the one-year BBldg course in either the construction management or quantity surveying streams. Subjects available are Advanced Construction, Advanced Services, Project Organisation. Project Administration, Building Economy. Land Economy, Building Law, Advanced Building Law and electives.
Alternatively, a BPD graduate may be accepted into the one-year BPD ( Hons) course. The subjects covered are similar to the B Bldg course subjects with emphasis on research and investigation and involve a mandatory Individual Research Project.
Master of Building
The MBldg degree can be completed either by coursework or by thesis. Applicants normally must he graduates with a BBldg degree of four years standing or BPD (Hons) in building and quantity surveying. or equivalent. Other applicants with considerable relevant professional experience may also apply but may be required to do preliminary studies being accepted for entry.
An approved period of practical experience ( minimum of one year) is required before entry to the MBIdg.
Candidates for the MBldg by coursework who have completed the BPD (Hons) in building or quantity surveying may be credited with the work completed in that year. and may be able to complete the MBldg in one year.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Bachelor of Planning and Design Pass or Honours
Master of Environmental Studies
The emphasis in Environmental Studies is on environmental planning and management. The courses offered aim to give graduates the necessary understandings and skills for working in these areas.
Students learn how human beings use the natural world to satisfy their needs, how their use of it is constrained by its limitations and how human manipulation of the natural environment has caused environmental stresses which are often cumulative and compound in their effects.
They discover that although conservation and development are both ways of satisfying human needs, they are not necessarily in conflict and can be complementary. The courses develop skills in applying the multi-disciplinary approaches necessary to tackle these complex problems.
In the Environmental Studies stream of the three- year BPD course, students are encouraged to apply their knowledge to solve problems in new areas.
Much of the student's time is devoted to project work and emphasis is placed on helping students to become self-starting.
Graduates are qualified to work in the areas of environmental planning and management, either with private firms or government bodies such as the Department of Conservation Forests and Lands or the Environment. Protection Authority.
Students who have done well in their pass BPD degree are permitted to enrol for an additional honours year of the BPD. Honours students doing environmental studies focus on economic, social, environmental and resource evaluation, policy development and decision-making in areas of conflict. The work includes individual research projects in which they tackle specific problems and report on their findings.
BPD (Hons) graduates have much to offer private and government sectors in environmental planning and management and can expect to move quickly into creative and demanding jobs in these areas.
Students taking the BPD pass degree will normally complete the following program:
Points 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 25.0 12.5 100.0
Bachelor of Planning and Design (Environmental Studies)
First year
Introduction to Design Introduction to Planning
and Development Human Settlement Human Ecology
Computing and Statistics for Planning and Design Communication for Planners Electives
Subject
Ecology and Environmental Assessment (Hons)
Economic Assessment (Hons) Points Urbanisation and Urban
12.5 Development (Hons) Resource Management (Hons) 12.5 Analytical Techniques (Hons) 12.5 Environmental Planning 12.5 Research Project (Hons)
Electives 12.5 TOTAL 12.5
25.0
Master of Environmental Studies
TOTAL 100.0
Second year
Urban Planning and Design Planning and Organisation The Natural Environment Conservation and Development Techniques of Decision Making Economic Geography
Elective
Points The MEnvS offers higher-level study in environmental planning and management to BPD graduates, as well as those from other disciplines such as Arts, Science, Commerce, Law, Agricultural Science and Engineering from the University of Melbourne and from other institutions.
The Master of Environmental Studies may be taken by research, with submission of a major thesis, or by coursework.
The coursework degree may be completed over two years full-time or four years part-time with at least 200 points of study approved by the Faculty.
Students entering with pass degrees are usually required to do preliminary studies which, if successful, usually gain credits toward the degree.
Students who have completed the BPD (honours) in Environmental Planning may complete the program in one year.
The first years of the MEnvS course is similar to that of the BPD (Hons) in Environmental Studies, except that electives replace the honours research project.
Second year MEnvS students study contemporary environmental planning issues, do further elective studies, take a course in research methods and undertake a group research project involving a multidisciplinary approach to a problem in environmental planning or management.
Since the first MEnvS was awarded in 1983, nearly 50 candidates have graduated. Most graduates interact their new knowledge and skills with those gained from their first degree. For 12.5
12.5 25.0 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5
TOTAL 100.0
Third year Points
Development Planning 12.5
Environmental Planning and Design 12.5 Environmental Resources and Pollution 12.5
plus
Geomorphology 25.0
or
Biogeography 25.0
Introduction to Law and
Environmental Law 12.5
Electives 25.0
TOTAL 100.0
Bachelor of Planning and Design Honours (Environmental Studies)
Environmental Studies students going on to do the BPD (Hons) year could (for example) undertake the following program:
a Bachelor of Engineering will still tend to work as an engineer, but in areas of engineering where knowledge of other disciplines and ability to work with people from other disciplines is an important attribute.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Bachelor of Planning and Design Pass or Honours
Master of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture involves the planning, design and management of the natural and built environment.
Landscape architects work with open spaces and natural materials including soils, landforms and plants. They try to understand how urban, rural and natural landscapes are evolving, and the interaction between people and nature. They learn how people use different spaces and plan and design public areas, malls, riversides, boulevards and parklands.
Students also learn how to simulate changes using
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computers so as to predict more accurately their potential impact.
Those pursuing the necessary skills and under- standing to do landscape planning and design take the landscape architecture stream in the three-year BPD degree course. The landscape architecture stream also introduces students to complementary skills in urban planning and environmental analysis and planning.
First-year units in the landscape architecture stream of the three-year BPD course are largely the same as those in the Urban Planning and Environmental Planning streams. Second and third years offer increasing specialisation in landscape subjects.
At the conclusion of the BPD degree course graduates are qualified to work in areas of landscape and environmental planning, design, and management, either in private practice or in local or state government instrumentalities.
Students who have done well in their pass BPD degree are permitted to enrol in the honours year, where studies in urban and regional planning and design, ecology, environmental assessment, information and monitoring, and a research project are undertaken.
Landscape architecture students taking the BPD will normally complete the following program:
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Bachelor of Planning and Design (Landscape Architecture)
First year Points
Introduction to Design 12.5
Introduction to Planning
and Development 12.5
Human Ecology 12.5
Human Settlement 12.5
Computing and Statistics for
Planning and Design 12.5
Communication for Planners 12.5
Electives 25.0
TOTAL 100.0
Second year Points
Planning and Organisation. 12.5 Urban Planning and Design 12.5
The Natural Environment 25.0
Conservation and Development 12.5 Plants and Planting Design 12.5
Electives 25.0
TOTAL 100.0
Third year
Development Planning
Environmental Planning and Design Environmental Resources and Pollution Landscape Technology
Professional Practice plus
Geomorphology or
Biogeography plus
Landscape History or
Australian Landscape History Elective
TOTAL 100.0
A Landscape Architecture student going on to do the BPD (Hons) year would undertake the following program:
Bachelor of Planning and Design Honours (Landscape Architecture)
Subjects Points
Urban Landscape Planning
and Design (Hons) 12.5
Urban Design (Hons) 12.5
Urban and Landscape Design Theory 12.5 Ecology and Environmental
Assessment (Hons) 12.5
Environmental Information and
Monitoring (Hons) 12.5
Regional Landscape Planning and Design (Hons)
Environmental Planning Research Project
(Hons) 25.0
Points The degree by coursework is recognised by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects for corporate membership of the Institute following completion of a prescribed period of practical experience.
Students who complete the BPD (Hons) can go on to do the MLArch degree by coursework (with exemptions from the first years of the program).
25.0 Entry to the MLArch is also open to candidates with a BLArch from another institution or to those 25.0 who complete a first degree in another discipline and do a preliminary studies year (full-time or 12.5 part-time).
Graduates from other disciplines typically have 12.5 backgrounds in agricultural science, geography, 12.5 architecture, arts, engineering and similar areas, but others may apply. The program has four specialisations:
Urban design and urban landscape design:
planning and designing public spaces and understanding the economic, social, political and environmental contexts; assessing project feasibility and land economics; and planning and designing complex projects.
Regional landscape policy and design: planning and designing regional areas and landscapes, understanding their ecology and the environment, evaluating regional landscapes, heritage assessment and planning, regional project planning and design, and related computing techniques.
Environmental perception and simulation:
theory of landscape perception; computer simulation techniques as planning tools: and related computer/video skills.
Research: research methods (such as surveys):
research projects leading to publication; and major research projects in the School and community 12.5 interaction and benefits.
12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5
TOTAL 100.0
Master of Landscape Architecture
The MLArch degree can be completed by either coursework or by research with submission of a major thesis. By coursework it is a two-year full- time or four-year part-time program of at least 200 points of study approved by the Faculty.For the University's principal academic dates see 1990 Academic Year and Semester Dates — pages 16-17. Where faculties have additional special academic dates they are noted under the heading: Special Faculty Dates at the end of the faculty entry.
TOWN PLANNING
Bachelor of Planning and Design Pass or Honours
Bachelor of Town and Regional Planning
Master of Urban Planning
Town planners help shape cities and towns by trying to ensure transport facilities, shops and industry are conveniently placed, houses are built away from factories, historic buildings are preserved, recreation areas are available, land prices are kept down and so on.
They use a system of land use zoning to do this, along with negotiating skills to mediate and help resolve conflicts between residents, developers, industrialists, farmers, conservationists and government departments.
Students are trained in data collection, information analysis, plan generation, plan testing and plan selection. They study people, societies, the economy, legal systems, environmental problems and organisational behaviour and learn report- writing, communication and research methods.
Those who wish to become town planners enrol in the urban planning stream of the three-year BPD.
The main part of their study is in urban systems, dealing with how cities work, processes and techniques of intervention and planning, design and management.
It is possible to gain worthwhile employment as a professional officer in government or private industry using the three-year BPD, but most town planning students study for at least four years.
This qualifies them to work as accredited town planners for local councils, government departments, planning consultancies or development companies.
In the fourth year students take either the BTRP degree course or the BPD (Hons) majoring in urban planning.
The honours course concentrates a little more on research skills to prepare stronger students for a MUP degree, but apart from this the two courses are identical.
Town Planning students taking the BPD degree will normally complete the following program:
Bachelor of Planning and Design (Urban Systems)
First year Points
Introduction to Design 12.5
Introduction to Planning and
Development 12.5
Human Ecology 12.5
Human Settlement 12.5
Communication for Planners 12.5 Computing and Statistics for Planning
and Design 12.5
Economics lA plus
12.5 Economics 1B
or
12.5
Economic Geography 12.5
Elective 12.5
TOTAL 100.0
Second year Points
Planning and Organisation 12.5 Urban Planning and Design 12.5 Urbanisation and Urban Structure 12.5
Urban Transport 12.5
Techniques of Decision Making 12.5 Economic Geography (if Economics 1A and
1B were not completed in first year) 12.5
Electives 25.0
TOTAL 100.0
Third year Points
Development Planning 12.5
Environmental Planning and Design 12.5
Urban Economics A 12.5
Urban Sociology and Politics 12.5 Introduction to Law and
Environmental Law 12.5
Electives 37.5
TOTAL 100.0
Bachelor of Town and Regional Planning
The holder of a BPD degree in town planning may go on to do the BTRP degree course. The one-year BTRP degree course consists of:
Career prospects for Architecture, Building and Planning graduates
The role of the architect is usually to head the team which designs buildings (typically consisting of structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, quantity surveyors, land surveyors, property consultants and interior designers).
In contrast, an architect in a small firm may design buildings, document them (which takes an extensive knowledge of structures, materials and law), administer contracts, run an office and have to keep the business financially viable.
Many architects combine careers (architect/
developer, architect/builder, architect/lawyer, architect/planner). Some enter service industries, specialising for instance in furniture design and manufacture, or computer programming.
Graduates in building, depending on their majors, find employment in construction or project management or in the cost management of building projects (quantity surveying).
They may begin on site (often as a coordinator or construction programmer) or in a contractor's office (as a contract administrator, estimator, or cost or project planner).
As construction managers they consult with designers on how a building will be erected, plan the job and the logistics and manage labour, materials and equipment.
As quantity surveyors they take responsibility for the financial feasibility of potential projects and, when under construction, for cost monitoring and cost control.
Building graduates also work as directors of real estate firms in sales, leasing, property management and valuation; as computer systems designers; as consultants in historic buildings, as commercial arbitrators; as commercial property and volume home building contractors; in specialist subcontracting, maintenance and renovation;
and as teachers, researchers and academics.
Environmental Studies and Landscape Plan- ning and Design graduates work in agencies such as the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, The Ministry for Planning and En- vironment, local government instrumentalities or private landscape or environmental planning practices.
Projects include metropolitan park design, assessment and design of forestry operations, site design related to public buildings and private developments, historic garden conservation and environmental assessment of proposed development projects such as mining ventures or industrial works.
Town planning graduates help shape cities and towns by working to ensure transport facilities are well-located, shops and jobs are conveniently placed, houses are built away from factories, historic buildings are preserved, recreation areas are available, land prices are kept down and so on.
With a three-year BPD they may work in government or private industry, but most elect to study for at least four years. This qualifies them to work as accredited town planners for local councils, government departments, planning consultancies or development companies.
The following degrees of the Faculty are accepted as satisfying the academic requirements for entry to the various professions with which the Faculty is associated:
BArch: The Royal Australian Institute of Architects and the Architects Registration Board of Victoria.
BBldg and MBldg: The Australian Institute of Building and the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (with suitable subjects in the final year).
BTRP and MUP: The Royal Australian Planning Institute.
MLArch: The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
Subjects Points Origins of Modem Urban Planning 12.5 State and Metropolitan Planning 12.5 Planning in Modern Industrial Societies 12.5
Analytical Techniques 12.5
Planning Law and Statutory Planning 12.5 Planning Investigation Project 25.0
Elective 12.5
TOTAL 100.0
Bachelor of Planning and Design Honours (Urban Planning)
Students who do well in their pass BPD degree may choose (if accepted) to take the BPD (Hons) year. The urban planning BPD (Hons) program consists of the following:
Subjects Points
Origins of Modern Urban
Planning (Hons) 12.5
State and Metropolitan Planning (Hons) 12.5 Planning Law and Statutory
Planning (Hons) 12.5
Environmental Planning Research
Project (Hons) 25.0
plus
Urbanisation and Urban
Development (Hons) 12.5
and
Planning in Modern Industrial
Societies (Hons) 12.5
and
Analytical Techniques (Hons) 12.5 or
Urban Landscape Planning
and Design (Hons) 12.5
and
Urban Design (Hons) 12.5
and
Urban and Landscape Design Theory 12.5
TOTAL. 100.0
Melbourne's changing skyline, seen from the roof of the Architecture and Planning building, makes an appropriate backdrop for an exchange of views between these urban planning students and their lecturer.
Master of Urban Planning
The MUP degree is a two-year full-time or four- year part-time coursework masters degree of at least 200 points of study approved by the Faculty.
It is a professional qualification recognised by the Royal Australian Planning Institute and the Royal Town Planning Institute, London.
Candidates may enter the MUP degree course in one of three ways: (a) complete the BPD (Hons) in urban planning (which earns exemption from the first year of the MUP); (b) complete a four-year BTRP or similar degree from the University of Melbourne or another institution (which may earn exemption from some MUP subjects); or (e) complete a first degree in another discipline and do a preliminary studies year, full or part time (which may earn exemption from some subjects).
Graduates from other disciplines typically have
backgrounds in geography, politics, economics and engineering, but others may apply.
Two streams are offered — urban planning and physical planning. The first year is professionally oriented but also has a strong emphasis on urbanisation and planning theory.
In the second year there is a strong emphasis on the study of contemporary planning issues and research methods and research to investigate the role of planning in contemporary society.
Master of Town and Regional Planning
This degree is taken by research with submission of a major thesis.
Undergraduate entry
Entry to the BPD pre-professional degree course has become particularly competitive. Currently there are no prerequisite studies, but it is strongly recommended that applicants complete Year 12 mathematics and physics for the architecture and building streams. For the planning stream in the BPD applicants are strongly advised to complete Year 12 mathematics.
For Environmental Studies, landscape architecture and town planning a background in any of economics, geography, history, politics or law is a valuable asset.
In all of the professional streams a capacity for creative problem-solving, an imaginative understanding of people's needs and aspirations and communication and organisation skills are highly desirable.
Entry tothe post-BPD professional courses without having completed the BPD is possible provided that a student has completed appropriate equivalent studies. The Faculty may award credit for appropriate subjects completed at a satisfactory level.
Higher award
Doctor of Philosophy
The PhD degree is administered and awarded by the University (not the Faculty). It may be taken in any discipline in which the Faculty offers an undergraduate degree. For further details contact the faculty or the University's Office for research (see page 34).
Special Faculty dates
Entry applications close:
BPD degree: 15 September.
BArch, BBldg, BTRP degrees: 31 October.
All masters degrees: 31 October.
For more information
Assistant Registrar (Architecture and Planning), Faculty of Architecture and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville Vic 3052. Tel: +613 (03) 344 6430.
