Landscape Architecture with Conversion - MA
Master
In Birmingham
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Type
Master
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Location
Birmingham
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Duration
Flexible
This two year course has two stages. Stage one covers the foundation modules in the first year. In the second year you will be joining students who have an accredited degree in Landscape Architecture.
This conversion course structured so that year one is a foundation course. It introduces you to design skills and techniques used to respond to the project briefs and year two of the course you will join with students who have an accredited degree in Landscape Architecture.
The course promotes solutions to environmental and community problems in a creative studio environment. The project profiles provide an opportunity to work closely with Landscape Institute policy and demonstrate the authority of Landscape Architecture as a design tool that reshapes our designed ecologies and designed geographies across the full range of scales.
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About this course
This course is designed for students who want a career in landscape architecture and want to shape the world in which we live. You will have a belief and passion to use landscape architecture as a design tool to make new environments for work, play and habitation.
This MA Landscape Architecture course incorporates a conversion course in year one, providing a foundation programme that enables applicants who don’t have a degree in Landscape Architecture an opportunity to enter year two of the programme, where you will join students who have previously completed a degree in Landscape Architecture. The conversion year is a studio based learning environment that delivers a combination of key skills that support the communication of projects, investigating the idea that our laboratory is a designed ecology and that you will learn about the landscape across its range of scales. The second part of the year looks at the idea that landscape is a sequence of interrelated designed environments connected by land, ecology, water, climate and infrastructure, sitting in a cultural context that extends from Parish to global political and economic systems.
The second year extends the studio as a studio of the mind, promoting an environment that encourages exploration and investigation. There is a strong emphasis on research that underpins new frontiers of the designed environment. Students will work on research-led design projects relating to well-being, the design process, designed ecologies and climate change, settlement design, food security and large scale infrastructure schemes like High Speed 2 (HS2) and flood alleviation.
OpportUNIty: Student Jobs on Campus ensures that our students are given a first opportunity to fill many part-time temporary positions within the University. This allows you to work while you study with us, fitting the job around your course commitments. By taking part in the scheme, you will gain valuable experiences and employability skills, enhancing your prospects in the job market.
Entry to year 1 (Conversion Course): Minimum Lower Second-Class degree (2:2).
The course has very strong links with regional and national employers with many students opting to work in practice and study part time after year one.
To help with managing the MA with your existing commitments we have structured the course to provide some flexibility. You have the option to complete the MA in two or three years.
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Subjects
- Landscape Architecture
- Project
- Accredited
- Design
- Skills
- Designed Ecologies
- Landscape
- Culture
- Nature
- Synthesis
Course programme
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
- Skills
- Designed Ecologies
- Landscape - Culture and Nature
- Designed Geographies
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 180 credits):
- Design Theory and Practice
- Synthesis to Detail
- Co.LAB
- Thesis Design Module
- Personal Research
- Praxis
Additional information
UK students Award: MA Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Full Time
Duration - 2 years (3 year option available - see below)
Fees - £6,600 per year
International students
Award: MA Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Full Time
Duration - 2 years
Fees -£13,200 per year
Landscape Architecture with Conversion - MA