Programme Structure

A candidate will be awarded the B.LA upon completing a minimum of 160 Units, including NUS required courses. Upon completion of the four-year programme, students are eligible to apply for the MLA programme. Successful applicants who meet the eligibility criteria will be exempted from the first year of the MLA programme. These students can then expect to graduate with an MLA upon completion of the second year of the MLA programme.

B.LA students pursue the following eight semester course of study:

Curriculum Overview

In the first year, students are introduced to foundational concepts in design: ways of sensing, reading, understanding, and interpreting fundamental landscape elements in forms, structures, materiality, and functions. A basic grounding in the first year includes introduction of landscape architecture, history and theory, and essential landscape representation techniques.

In the second and third years, students progress to acquire more advanced skills in site representation, site analysis, design representation specialized software, and spatial analytical tools. Students begin to synthesize landscape forms, structures, processes and functions with more specialized knowledge in planting design, landscape engineering, and advanced water sensitive urban design.

In the fourth year, students decide how to utilise their unrestricted elective space. Those who stick with landscape architecture offered a choice of two specialisations, one in Landscape Studies and another in Landscape Practice. Both of which further enrich and deepen a students knowledge in the field and to prepare them to enter the workforce.

Upon completion of the four-year programme, students will receive the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) and are eligible to apply for the MLA programme with direct admission into the second year of MLA if they fulfil the necessary criteria for advanced placement credits (APCs).

Overview of Curriculum Structure

Essential Courses

Year 1

SEMESTER 1 LAD1001 Design 1  4 Units LAD1003 Introduction to Landscape Architecture 4 Units

SEMESTER 2 LAD1005 Design 2 8 Units  LAD1004 History and Theory of Landscape Architecture  4 Units

 

Year 2

SEMESTER 1 LAD2006 Design 3  8 Units LAD2004 Planting Design and Horticulture 4 Units LAD2005 Introductory GIS for Landscape Architecture  4 Units

SEMESTER 2 LAD2007 Design 4  8 Units LAD2003 Landscape Construction I  4 Units

 

Year 3

SEMESTER 1 LAD3001 Design 5  8 Units LAD3006 Basics of Ecology (LA Elective) 4 Units

SEMESTER 2 LAD3002 Design 6 8 Units  LAD3005 Landscape Architecture Internship (LA Elective)

 

Year 4

Specialisation in Landscape Practice LAD4008 Design 7 8 Units LAD4010 Design 8 8 Units LAD4003 Landscape Construction II 4 Units

Specialisation in Landscape Studies (Design 7 + Pick 3 Electives) LAD4008 Design 7  8 Units LAD4004 GeoDesign 4 Units LAD4006 Digital Techniques in Landscape Architecture 4 Units LAD4007 Political Ecology and Landscapes 4 Units LAD4012 Urban Greening: Technologies and Techniques 4 Units LA5222 Urban Ecology and Design 4 Units LA5901 Special Topics in Landscape Architecture  4 Units

 

BLA Electives

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NUS Required Courses

GENERAL PROGRAMME Cohort AY2021/22 onwards Essential Courses (EC) 60 Units Common Curriculum Courses (CC) 60 Units Unrestricted Electives (UE)/ Specialisation Courses 40 Units Total 160 Units Cohort AY2020/21 Essential Course (EC) 108 Units General Education Course (GEC) 20 Units Unrestricted Electives (UE)/ Specialisation Courses 32 Units Total 160 Units