Architecture and Built Environments

Architecture and Built Environments, Bachelor

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  • 36 months
    Duration
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Overview

It will develop the creativity and critical thinking skills that will enable you to engage with local and global communities and push the boundaries of architecture and the built environment

This course is built around features unique to our University. Design studios focus on our island home, which provides natural and heritage environments and the people that allow for detailed studies and real impact.  

Our curriculum centres on a Learning-By-Making practice that has characterised the University’s architectural programs for over 25 years. 

Accessible studio spaces and workshops allow for experimentation and play, and our size fosters a spirit of camaraderie.

The Bachelor of Architecture and Built Environments from University of Tasmania  is holistic in its approach, integrating histories and theories, construction techniques and building performance, professional and ethical studies, and design research and communication into project-based units. You will develop participatory skills and learning methods invaluable for design practice.

Career

Architecture and its cognate fields are in a state of continuous evolution. The Bachelor of Architecture & Built Environments will provide multi- and interdisciplinary frameworks allowing for agility in this ever-changing landscape, as well as work-ready skills demanded by employers, including evidence-based problem solving, critical thinking, effective communication and time management. 

By undertaking community-engaged, hands-on projects, you can graduate with a portfolio of your own work, created in consultation with real clients.

Detailed Programme Facts

  • More details:
    • Students living overseas should apply at least 3 months prior to semester start date and on-shore students apply no less than one month prior to semester start date.
  • Programme intensity Full-time
    • Full-time duration 36 months
  • Credits
    300 alternative credits
  • Languages
    • English
  • Delivery mode
    On Campus

Programme Structure

Courses include:

  • Order, Relation, System
  • Alterations, Collisions, Insertions
  • Spatial Typologies
  • Formal Morphologies 
  • Adaptive Reuse Studio
  • Urban Design Studio

English Language Requirements

  • Minimum required score:

    72

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  • Minimum required score:

    6

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  • Minimum required score:

    50

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General Requirements

CRICOS: 002847C 

  • Admission to undergraduate courses at the University of Tasmania requires the completion of qualifications equivalent to the 12th year in Australia. Some courses also require the completion of pre-requisite subjects, such as Mathematics or Chemistry.

Tuition Fee

  • International

    31008 AUD/year
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the original amount of 93031 AUD for the full programme and a duration of 36 months.
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  • Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee and is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in.

Funding

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