Program Overview

Utbildningsplan Landscape Architecture

Introduction to the Program

The Landscape Architecture program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in the field, focusing on the theoretical and practical aspects of landscape architecture. The program aims to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue a successful career in landscape architecture or to continue their studies at the doctoral level.

Program Details

• Program Code: LM006
• Approved by: Faculty Board of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture, and Crop Production Science
• Revised by: Program Board for Education in Landscape Architecture and Horticulture
• SLU ID: SLU.ltv.2024.3.1.1-830
• Valid from: Autumn Semester 2025
• Responsible Program Board: Program Board for Education in Landscape Architecture and Horticulture

Admission Requirements

To be admitted to the Master's program in Landscape Architecture, the following requirements must be met:

• Basic Eligibility: A Bachelor's degree of at least 180 higher education credits (hec)
• Special Eligibility: Specialization comprising 90 hec in one of the following subjects/fields:
  • Architecture
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape Planning
  • Built Environment
  • Design
  • Physical Planning
  • Geography
  • Landscape Science
  • Environmental Science
  • Civil Engineering
• English Proficiency: Knowledge equivalent to English 6. This requirement is met by those who have a Bachelor's degree comprising 180 hec from a Swedish university or 120 hec completed studies at SLU. English 6 can also be obtained in other ways specified on universityadmissions.se.

Program Content

Description of the Program

The program's purpose is to offer students with an international Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture, as well as those with adjacent educations, the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in the subject. The Master's degree, which is the program's goal, can be used for a professional career or as preparation for an academic research career within parts of landscape architecture that a Bachelor's and/or professional degree, in combination with deepening and specialization within the program, enables.

Courses in the Program

At admission to the program, students are admitted to the courses "Explorations into Landscape Architecture" and "Landscape Architecture Theory, Methodology, and Practice". An independent project of at least 30 hec (LK, A2E) is mandatory for a Master's degree (120 hec).

Main Areas of Study

• BI = Biology
• LK = Landscape Architecture
• SG = Forestry
• TD = Horticultural Science

Terms and Courses

• Term 1:
  • Explorations into Landscape Architecture, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Landscape Architecture Theory, Methodology & Practice, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
• Terms 2-4: (Elective courses, including mandatory independent project in bold)
  • Studio Project Advanced Planting Design, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Digital Landscape Visualisation, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Studio Project Transforming Urban Landscapes, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Studio Project - Space, Place, Mobility, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • People and Environment, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Studio Project Large Scale Structures, Analysis and EIA, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Urban Forestry - Management of Urban Forest and Trees, 15 hec (LK/SG, A1N)
  • Advanced Digital Landscape Analysis with GIS, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Climate Change - Landscape in Transition, 15 hec (LK/BI, A1N)
  • Studio Project Site, Concept and Theory, 15 hec (LK, A1F A1N)
  • Urban Landscape Design, 15 hec (LK/TD, G2F)
  • Conservation of Gardens, Parks and Designed Landscapes (1), 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • The Cultural Heritage of Landscape Architecture (1), 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Studio Project - Composition, Materiality and Design practice, 15 hec (LK, A1F)
  • Dynamic Vegetation Design, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Urban Agriculture and Social Interaction, 15 hec (LK/TD, G2F)
  • Urban Ecology for the Development of Sustainable Living, 15 hec (BI/LK, A1N)
  • Theme Course, 15 hec (LK, A1N)
  • Landscape Architecture Practice, 15 hec (LK, AXX)
  • Independent Project in Landscape Architecture, A2E - Landscape Architecture- Master´s Programme, 30 hec (LK, A2E)

Goals for the Degree

General Goals

The general goals for education at the basic and advanced levels are described in the Higher Education Act, Chapter 1, Sections 8-9.

Specific Goals for the Master's Degree

In accordance with the appendix to the Ordinance for the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the student must meet the following goals for a Master's degree:

• Knowledge and Understanding
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding within the main field of study, including both broad knowledge in the field and significantly deepened knowledge in certain parts of the field, as well as deepened insight into current research and development work.
  • Demonstrate deepened method knowledge within the main field of study.
• Skills and Ability
  • Demonstrate the ability to critically and systematically integrate knowledge and to analyze, assess, and handle complex phenomena, questions, and situations even with limited information.
  • Demonstrate the ability to critically, independently, and creatively identify and formulate questions, to plan and with appropriate methods carry out qualified tasks within given time frames, and thereby contribute to the development of knowledge, as well as to evaluate this work.
  • Demonstrate the ability to in both national and international contexts orally and in writing clearly account for and discuss their conclusions and the knowledge and arguments that form the basis for these in dialogue with different groups.
  • Demonstrate such skills as are required to participate in research and development work or to work independently in other qualified activities.
• Judgment and Approach
  • Demonstrate the ability within the main field of study to make assessments with regard to relevant scientific, social, and ethical aspects, and demonstrate awareness of ethical aspects of research and development work.
  • Demonstrate insight into the possibilities and limitations of science, its role in society, and people's responsibility for how it is used.
  • Demonstrate the ability to identify their need for further knowledge and to take responsibility for their knowledge development.

Degree

Degree Aimed for by the Education

The Master's program in Landscape Architecture aims for a Master's degree with Landscape Architecture as the main field of study, which is a general degree.

Degree Requirements

A Master's degree with Landscape Architecture as the main field of study is achieved after completed course requirements (passed courses) of 120 hec with the following requirements:

• At least 30 hec courses with specialization in Landscape Architecture (A1N; A1F).
• At least 30 hec independent project in Landscape Architecture (Master's thesis/A2E).
• A maximum of 30 hec may consist of courses at the basic level, provided they have not been included in the qualifying Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Transition Provisions

Until and including the autumn semester of 2019, the program name was: Landscape Architecture Master's program.

Other Provisions

General Provisions for Education at the Basic and Advanced Levels

More information about semester times, examination, credit transfer, admission to later parts of the program can be found in the rule collection for education at the basic and advanced levels on SLU's student web.

Opportunity for Further Studies

The student who has completed the education on the Master's program in Landscape Architecture with a passed degree has the opportunity to continue their studies at the doctoral level.