Landscape Architecture with a Foundation Year - BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
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Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Birmingham
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Duration
4 Years
This four year degree course has been specifically designed to allow you to undertake additional level 3 study designed to ensure you are successful on your chosen degree.
After successful completion of your foundation year, you will have the flexibility to switch (should you wish to change direction) onto a number of related undergraduate degree options within Birmingham School of Architecture and Design
You’ll work in a design studio culture, which mimics real-world creative practice for landscape architects and prepares you for your future career.
Experience on live local sites and project briefs in landscape studios will develop your design creativity and hone your professional practice skills. Placements and competitions will give you fantastic opportunities. There are also chances to compete for industry connected awards.
You’ll have the chance to be part of collaborative architecture and design initiatives within the School of Architecture that give you the chance to work on a diverse variety of live projects. Past examples include: explorations in timber construction in the Wyre Forest, communicating with the public about what they really want from design for Stirchley High Street in Birmingham and implementation of a viewing structure to observe wetland ecology at Henbury Ponds.
You’ll also have the opportunity to attend lectures and take part in workshops from a large variety of international and award winning professionals. Previous guest speakers have included Martha Schwartz, Andrew Grant, Andrew Wilson, Jeppe Aagard Anderson, Neil Porter, Chris Beardshaw and Kim Wilkie.
You’ll be based in our multi-million pound City Centre Campus within our Parkside Building, where you will have access to digital studios and 3D design workshops. The proximity of the newly built Eastside Park provides inspiration to your studies, introducing a strong example of contemporary civic space and park design.
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About this course
Want to learn how to design the outside world? Apply for this Landscape Architecture degree course to gain real industry exposure and work on a wide range of exciting briefs. This course focuses on offering experience through practice, which will enhance your chances of securing a role after you graduate.
Landscape Architecture is the design of the world outside, as a combination of art, utility and natural systems. The aim is to create rich, positive experiences and to provide designed environments, which engage users with character and a sense of place.
Through guided exploration of personal design and research process, you will explore and unwrap many layers to reveal the unlimited storyboard of design options that our landscape presents.
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.
Minimum overall score of 6.0, with 6.0 in writing and no less than 5.5 in the remaining three skills.
CCD / 88 UCAS points
A maximum of 4 subjects are considered. These can be other A/S Levels (as long in a different subject) A-Levels or Level 3 equivalents.
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications (AS Levels must be in different subject to A-Levels) to obtain 88 pts
The course is fully recognised and accredited by the Landscape Institute, allowing you to work towards full UK chartered membership.
You’ll gain real industry experience, working on a wide range of briefs, from broad strategic scale, down to detailed design for construction.
Our connections with the region’s best landscape architecture practices give you unrivalled work experience while studying and helps you secure employment after graduation.
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Subjects
- Construction
- Design
- Landscape Architecture
- School
- Project
- Construction Training
- Architecture Design
- Supported
- Architecture
- Product
Course programme
The foundation year provides an opportunity to explore the exciting world of contemporary design through various scales and develop creative solutions, encapsulating Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design, and Product and Furniture Design.
It provides a supported learning environment to explore conceptual ideas through to detailed design, mapping and modelling and is assessed through mini design-focussed projects and a specialised final project in a chosen field.
The foundation year is ideally suited to students who need to develop their design, drawing, technical and presentations skills before entering a BA course, or for those who have not yet decided which specific design discipline or career to pursue.
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
- Communication Skills
- Professional and Academic Development
- Design Techniques
- Design Disciplines
- Presentation Techniques
- Place and Space and Objects
Laying the foundation for deeper understanding, this year covers a broad spread of study areas, moving seamlessly, connecting abstract design theory and consideration of global scale contexts, to micro-scale understanding of materials and technology.
Through this process, you will gain an understanding of the scope, scale and connectivity of landscape architecture, its transformative abilities and power to help ensure a global human future.
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
- Inspiration
- Skills
- Influence
- Components
- Formation
You'll develop professional approaches to design and construction in your second year.
You will develop connections between key design theories and real-world practice, through debate of current topics, placement study, collaborative projects (Co.LAB), and the exploration of two different multifaceted design processes.
Modules include:
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 100 credits):
- Construction
- Context
- Work placement (Praxis)
- Urban Design
- Designed Ecologies
- Collaborative Practice
- Live project
Year three
Through guided but self-directed investigations, you will define your own academic pathway.
Built on research and led via creative but pragmatic exploration in design, you will successfully communicate connections between theory, contextual analysis, project brief, conceptual proposals, design development and design detail, to produce a broad-scale, multi-layered design project.
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits)
- Major Project
- Major Project: Define
- Professionalism
- Major Project: Deliver
Additional information
Award: BA (Hons) Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Full Time
Duration - 4 years
Fees - £13,200 per year
Landscape Architecture with a Foundation Year - BA (Hons)
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Canterbury College
HND OnlinePrice on request -
West Lothian College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
University Canada West – UCW
Bachelor's degree Online£ 25,519 -
Arden University
Bachelor's degree Onlinehigher than £ 9000 -
Institute of Operations Management
Course Distance LearningPrice on request -
Henley Business School
MBA Distance Learning£ 18,500 + VAT -
Pitman Training Preston
BTEC OnlinePrice on request
See all