Course summary
Deepen your knowledge of landscape architecture as you design, re-imagine and retrofit open spaces in response to contemporary environmental challenges. Prepare for a rewarding career Landscape architecture can help address the recovery of nature, health and wellbeing and social inequality, making our cities better places to live. On this accredited course, you’ll explore techniques which will help you become a creative and reflective designer, primed to start a rewarding career in this dynamic field. As part of this course, you’ll:
- Understand our natural and cultural environment to produce landscapes at a range of scales, responsive to aesthetic, ecological, social and technical requirements
- Develop the skills to provide original and practical responses to biodiversity loss and climate change
- Gain a critical understanding of the nature, scope and role of landscape architecture in a changing world. This will include the landscape architect’s role in the profession, together with an appreciation of environmental and ethical aspects
- Critically evaluate materials, processes and techniques that apply to landscape architecture. You’ll learn to integrate these into design proposals sensitively and appreciate the implications affecting landscape over time
- Build a critical understanding of how knowledge is advanced through research and practice
- Produce an original portfolio work relating to landscape architecture
- Discover opportunities to respond to environmental challenges facing today's landscape architects through live projects, collaboration and competitions
- Professional recognition – our course is accredited by Landscape Institute
- Access to specialist facilities including architecture design studios, 3D workshops and the Landscape Resource Centre
- Be part of a profession that can deliver creative solutions to our environmental challenges
- Gain from the course team's extensive industry knowledge and professional networks with close links to landscape architecture practices in the Yorkshire region, throughout the UK, and beyond
- Study within Leeds School of Arts - one of the largest university arts communities in the north
Modules
Core Modules:
- Landscape & Urban Design Studios
- Advanced Landscape Architecture Design Project
- Contemporary Landscape Architecture Theory & Practice
Entry requirements
Applicants should either have at least a second class honours degree supported by evidence of an aptitude for the subject applied for, or have equivalent experience or training, normally from within the work environment. All applicants will be required to submit a portfolio of creative work related to the course for consideration as part of the application process. Applicants who have completed the BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture degree at Leeds Beckett in the last five years will not be required to submit a portfolio. Applicants who have completed our Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture will be considered for advanced entry and will only need to complete a further 60 level 7 credit points. All applications should be supported by a reference, either academic or professional.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
Leeds Beckett University
City Campus
Leeds
LS1 3HE