Programme summary for MA Professional Landscape Architecture
About the programme
This programme is growing logically out of the School’s long-standing preoccupation with material, context, creative interventions and regeneration, both locally and internationally. It expands material and contextual interests into the natural and urban landscape, actively seeking to explore the possibilities inherent in the temporal design opportunities that landscape architecture encompasses. The programme is designed to develop intellectual and practical professional tools for landscape architects, and through project-based studies, search for new solutions to the increasing complexity of our environment.
Professional qualifications
Accreditation from the Landscape Institute is currently being sought. Please ask us for up-to-date information on the programme’s current accreditation status.
Programme structure
The MA programme can be followed over twelve months full time or twenty four months part time.
Career opportunities
The programme covers critical issues and fields that allow students to work in a wide range of programmes and organisations, both public and private. Students may wish to apply for professional membership of the Landscape Institute or to develop their careers in a wide range of other professional opportunities where knowledge of the environment and the opportunities and constraints inherent in it is relevant.
Support
The programme offers students a personal tutor, 1:1 tutorial support as well as support of small group working
Personal Development Planning (PDP) is a University requirement to engage formally in reflective practice, through a learning log or a professional development portfolio. This includes creating and maintaining a continuously updated CV, a review of progress in modules, review of assessment outcomes and feedback, a semester based action plan and an annual submission of the PDP. This process is designed to help students reflect on their own progress.
The University provides a comprehensive range of support services to students, which includes: residential/ student finance advice/ careers advise / study skills development/ IT learning resources.
Admission
The programme will appeal to a diverse audience:
It will appeal to already qualified design professionals in related disciplines who wish to add further specialisation in landscape architectural practice, and gain professional membership of the Landscape Institute.
It also welcomes students from other post-graduate diploma programmes in the UK and elsewhere who wish to study landscape architecture with us at the University Of East London.
It also welcomes applications from candidates with a design based first degree with a particular interest and ability to contribute to the development of landscape at an advanced level. Applicants whose first degree is not in landscape architecture will need to have completed a graduate diploma in landscape architecture.
It welcomes applications from suitable candidates with an honours degree or graduate diploma in landscape architecture or landscape design with an interest in additional study at an advanced level.
Applications are welcomed from the EU and overseas, in particular, lecturers from Higher Education Institutions wishing to increase their qualifications.
Students whose first language is not English will have achieved a score of 6.5 in IELTS or equivalent. Eligibility for students without degree equivalent qualifications will be assessed via the accreditation of experiential learning [AEL] on the basis of a short essay, statement and a portfolio. Places will be offered after a successful interview with a member of the programme team.
All applicants will be interviewed.
Applicants with either prior-certified learning or prior-experiential learning that closely matches the specified learning outcomes of the taught part of the programme may be able to claim exemption via agreed university procedures. No exemption can be claimed against the research part of the programme or in situations where a professional body excludes it.
Key facts
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Tuition Fees - 2013/14
Home/EU Fees
- Module fee: £2,200 (60 credits)
- Full time fee: £6,600 per yr
International Fees
- Module fee: £3,800 (60 credits)
- Full time fee: £11,400 per yr
Fees based on 30 credit modules (unless otherwise indicated) For further information regarding postgraduate fees please refer to www.uel.ac.uk/fees/
