3Jul
UndergraduateYou can no longer submit a new application for courses starting in 2023.
If you already have a 2023 application and are in Clearing, you can add this course as a Clearing choice – contact the university or college first to check they have places.
Leeds Beckett University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework.These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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Course summary
Explore landscape architecture and understand how to design solutions that address our environmental challenges from climate change to biodiversity loss. We believe in bringing out the best in our students. We’ll teach you to become creative, perceptive and bold landscape architects improving our environment for future generations. As part of this course, you’ll:
- Explore your creativity, spatial design skills and your individual approach to develop a passion for landscape design
- Gain the practical skills required to become an effective landscape architect, from nature-based solutions and retro-fitting our cities, to health and wellbeing and the radical changes needed in our rural landscapes
- Study in a supportive environment in well-equipped studios in the vibrant city of Leeds. You’ll be taught by staff from diverse backgrounds with experience from landscape practice and research
- Develop your environmental ethics and values through sharing ideas, teamworking and collaborating on live projects that mimic professional practice
- Expand your knowledge by studying the theories that shape the practice of landscape architecture
- Build the essential tools for employment in the expanding landscape architecture sector
- Landscapeinstitute.org
- Chooselandscape.org
- Close links to landscape and architecture practices
- Opportunity to showcase your designs and network with potential employers through the End of Year Show
- Join an academic community that has been teaching landscape architecture for more than 50 years
- Tutors with extensive professional experience networks
- Interdisciplinary study; gain access to a vast range of ideas, skills and facilities
Modules
Year 1 Core Modules:
- Exploring Place
- Introduction to Spatial Design
- Reading the Landscape
- Designing for People & Place
- Design with Materials
- Planting for the Future
- Resilient Rural Landscapes
- Impact of Design
- City Landscapes: Nature Based Solutions
- Creating Distinctive Places
- Material, Management & Sustainability
- Landscape: Culture & Theory
- Design & Community 1: Engagement & Vision
- Design & Community 2: Resolution & Detail
- Landscape Futures: Project Research
- Landscape Futures: Placemaking
How to apply
You can no longer submit a new application for courses starting in 2023.
If you already have a 2023 application and are in Clearing, you can add this course as a Clearing choice – contact the university or college first to check they have places.
25Jan
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- K312
- Institution code:
- L27
- Campus name:
- City CampusC
- Campus code:
- C
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 96 points
GCSE/National 4/National 5
We conduct interviews as part of the admissions process and suitable applicants will be invited to an interview. At interview you are assessed on your portfolio (artwork or photographs of artwork together with written assignments), general knowledge and your enthusiasm for art.
Additional entry requirements
Interview
We conduct interviews as part of the admissions process and suitable applicants will be invited to an interview - interview dates will be published in due course. Invitations are sent via UCAS and you should check your UCAS Track account for further interview details.
Portfolio
Student Outcomes
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Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
Go onto work and study
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Leeds Beckett University
City Campus
Leeds
LS1 3HE