Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
B.Sc.
Overview
The interdisciplinary bachelor's program in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning deals with the interpretation, development and design of landscapes. As such, the focus lies primarily on open spaces in populated areas.
To this end, the program fosters competencies in the social, cultural and natural sciences, as well as in engineering. The focus of landscape architecture lies on the area of design, while landscape planning focuses on aspects of planning science. In order to do justice to the complex demands of the thematic area, the program combines both pillars and, at the same time, allows for early specialization.
Which further expertise and skills will I acquire?
As a graduate, you are in a position to independently handle various types of problems relating to the design of open spaces, the development of landscapes and nature conservation. Based on your specialist knowledge, you also select suitable methods of analysis, assessment, design and planning, and apply these. In accordance with your chosen course of studies, you have at your disposal further technical training and methodological competencies. You can develop design solutions to complex problems and work out their structural feasibility. Alternatively, you will have specialized in the formulation of expert reports containing plans and texts on the status of landscapes and associated development goals.
In your work, you draw upon sound knowledge of the areas of construction engineering and plant use, botany and ecology, garden design and the history of ideas, design and CAD, as well as planning theory, instruments and law. Moreover, in accordance with your individual choice of courses, you have at your disposal skills and knowledge relating to architecture and urban design, as well as soil science and spatial planning.
Independently of the chosen focus of your studies, your practical planning work shows a consciousness of social, historical and ecological contexts. You will also have developed a basic understanding of questions relating to the natural and cultural sciences.
Which professional opportunities can I take up with this qualification?
Should you decide to enter a profession upon completing the bachelor's program, opportunities arise in architecture and planning firms, as well as in construction and environmental planning.
Structure
The bachelor's program in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning consists of lower-division courses and upper-division courses.
- The first two semesters are devoted to the lower-division courses. These impart foundational knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies, and provide orientation between the two specialist fields.
- Central to the upper-division courses during the third semester, besides the broadening out of knowledge of the discipline through core subjects, is project work. Modules in a minor subject and required elective disciplines allow for the creation of an individual study and competence profile. The compulsory stay abroad enriches professional competencies and prepares students for embarking on an international career.
- The degree concludes with a bachelor's thesis, which deals with a topic relating to the chosen specialization.
Costs
Tuition
HK$32,449.12
(international)
HK$0.00
(home)
Funding
Admissions
Qualifications
Selection takes place through an aptitude assessment procedure. Aptitude assessment is a two-part procedure evaluating your ability to successfully manage the particular qualitative requirements of the bachelor’s program.
In the first stage, your overall secondary school grades, your grades in subject-specific courses, and any relevant practical experience or additional qualifications will be evaluated using a point system. Depending on the amount of points accumulated, applicants are either immediately admitted, rejected or invited to an admissions interview.
Students who earned their higher education entrance qualification in a non-German language school in another country and whose native language is not German must take part in an admissions interview to assess their subject-specific language skills.
Language requirements
DSH
2