BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture & Design

Launch
Launch Week for your second year is all about getting you ready for your next year of study, and re-orientating after your first summer break.

Projects 03
You’ll be encouraged to explore and interrogate a landscape and develop small spatial interventions within it. You’ll explore the relationships between interior and exterior spaces and how the architectural interventions that we make may be experienced by those who inhabit them.

Landscape for Equity 02
In this unit, you will deepen your understanding of the technological principles, regulations, and societal challenges that shape contemporary landscape design. You’ll focus on the role of cultural diversity, non-Western perspectives, and vernacular practices in creating climate resilient landscapes.

Briefs and Positions 02
In this unit, you’ll prepare a developed set of briefing materials to guide your development of a medium-scale design proposal in a subsequent design unit.

Opportunity
Opportunity Week is an intensive week of activity conceived and undertaken in collaboration with an external partner(s), and it’ll be driven by the partner’s external knowledge and area of practice – so it could cover anything from politics or law to sport and wellbeing.

Projects 04
Advancing your knowledge and skills, you’ll design a medium-scale landscape project, exploring complex relationships between productive ecologies and the city, its people, environment, and climate. You develop a deeper knowledge of contemporary agendas of permaculture, horticulture, and agriculture to produce a design proposal informed by your experiences in a real-world "test bed," where you will demonstrate the cultivation and harvesting of specimen plants and products.

Pathways and Mentors
In Pathways and Mentors, you will reflect on the design skills, knowledge and techniques you are acquiring and identify potential alternative career paths that you might not yet have considered. In the course of this unit, all students will have the opportunity to engage with a design professional in a structured series of engagement and mentoring sessions.

Critical Analysis 02
This unit builds on understandings from Critical Analysis 01, and issues introduced in the preceding Briefs and Positions unit, to consider how ideas are socially, historically, and culturally located.

PLE Digital Outcomes
The PLE Digital Outcome is a purposefully edited, self-directed record of your constructive engagement with and presence on digital media platforms across the year.

ATOM Activities
ATOM activities are tiny pieces of diverse individual learning that facilitate interdisciplinary exposure across the university’s curriculum and beyond. They are chosen by you according to your personal interest.

Launch
For your final Launch week you’ll be gearing up for your final year of study through a range of activities, which could include a multi-story guest lecture super session, an all staff pecha kucher, Canterbury and surroundings walking orientation tours or a studio launch collaborative making project.

Projects 05
You’ll develop detailed proposals for the landscape design of a housing scheme and use your design as the basis for a professional practice report related to the realisation of the project. The unit has two components - a portfolio on landscape design in relation to the home at a variety of scales, and a report that explores the legal and procedural characteristics of practicing as a landscape architect in the UK, based upon your emerging design.

Critical Analysis 03
This unit provides a framework for you to establish your own personalised research trajectory. You’ll produce a piece of self-directed research on a subject that is related to the historical, theoretical and critical concerns of your subject discipline. The subject matter will be informed by the specific interests that you have developed.

Briefs and Positions 03
In the Briefs and Positions 03 unit you will prepare an advanced set of briefing materials that will inform and guide your development of a medium-scale design for your final projects unit.

Opportunity
Opportunity Week is an intensive week of activity conceived and undertaken in collaboration with an external partner(s), and it’ll be driven by the partner’s external knowledge and area of practice – so it could cover anything from politics or law to sport and wellbeing.

Projects 06
In this final project unit you’ll undertake a large scale landscape design project. You will establish a sophisticated dialogue between topography, local, social and political issues, city scale structures, regional objectives and the way that all these impacts the lives of individuals.

You will engage pre-existing, disparate functions in new ways to generate cultural outcomes, agendas and patterns of use. 

BA (Hons) course - Year 2*

The standard entry requirements* for this course are:

• 120 credits from a relevant degree (at level 4)
• Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE)
• Higher National Certificate in a relevant subject

And/or Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL)

BA (Hons) course - Year 3*

The standard entry requirements* for this course are:

• 240 credits from a relevant degree (120 credits at level 4 and 120 credits at level 5), with a minimum of 55% overall
• Foundation Degree in a relevant subject
• Higher National Diploma in a relevant subject

And/or Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL)

In recognition that you may already have a relevant professional qualification, or appropriate working experience in the relevant industries, APEL may be accepted for entry on to the course. This will be based on the partnership articulations and will be assessed on a case by case basis.

Portfolio requirements

For these courses, we’ll need to see your portfolio for review. We’ll invite you to attend an Applicant Day so you can have your portfolio review in person, meet the course team and learn more about your course. Further information will be provided once you have applied. View more portfolio advice

*We occasionally make offers which are lower than the standard entry criteria, to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance and who were expected to achieve higher results. We consider the strength of our applicants’ portfolios, as well as their grades -  in these cases, a strong portfolio is especially important.

BA (Hons) course Year 2 / Year 3 entry

The entry requirements for these courses will depend on the country your qualifications are from, please contact our International Admissions team to discuss your application: [email protected]

Portfolio requirements

You will be required to submit a portfolio for review. Further information on specific portfolio requirements and how to submit your portfolio will be sent to you after we have reviewed your application.

English language requirements

To study at UCA, you'll need to have a certain level of English language skill. And so, to make sure you meet the requirements of your course, we ask for evidence of your English language ability, please check the level of English language required:

• English language requirements