Program Overview

Programme Overview

The Master of Landscape Architecture (Professional) is a taught master's degree for the purpose of registration as a candidate professional landscape architect with the South African Council for the Landscape Architectural Profession in terms of Act 45 of 2000. This degree is done by coursework, projects, and a design investigation mini-dissertation and design project and discourse.

Programme Information

Programme Details

• Code: MLArch (Professional)
• Faculty: Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
• Credits: 180
• Duration: Minimum duration of study is 1 year

Admission Requirements

Candidates for the degree programme Master of Landscape Architecture (Professional) must:

1. be a graduate with a BLHons degree or an equivalent university degree;
2. have an appropriate recognised tertiary qualification at honours degree level;
3. have a qualification deemed adequate by the Head of Department in consultation with the Dean and obtain (where necessary) the approval of Senate and comply with any other prescribed requirements. Candidates mentioned in (ii) and (iii) above may at the discretion of the Head of Department be required to be evaluated in prerequisite fields of knowledge and/or register for additional modules for non-degree purposes.

Selection Criteria

• Candidates should preferably have had practical experience and/or have done and recorded an extended study excursion.
• Candidates are interviewed for selection.
• Candidates must present a portfolio and/or design journal which demonstrates the requisite level of proficiency and competency and is considered a record of their experience within the discipline.
• Candidates are selected on merit.
• A limited number of candidates are admitted to this programme.

Programme Structure

Core Modules

• CPD 810: Continuing practice development 810 (Credits: 15.00)
• DIT 802: Design investigation 802 (Credits: 75.00)
• DPD 802: Mini-dissertation: Design project and discourse 802 (Credits: 90.00)

Examinations and Pass Requirements

• The minimum pass mark is 50%.
• A minimum of 40% is required in the examination, with a minimum final mark of 50% to pass.
• If a module is not evaluated by examination, a minimum coursework mark of 50% is required.
• If the module is not evaluated by coursework, a minimum examination mark of 50% is required.

Research Information

G Regulation G.39.12 applies.

Pass with Distinction

The degree is conferred with distinction on those students registering for the first time and obtaining a distinction (75%) simultaneously for both the Design investigation mini-dissertation (DIT 802) and the Design project and discourse (DPD 802) with the proviso that the degree is completed within the minimum prescribed time and all other final-year modules are passed on first registration.

Awarding of Degree

The degree is awarded to those students who have obtained the prescribed credits. Those students admitted with conditions must comply with all of these before all the 700 series module credits and the degree are awarded.