Faculty of Engineering & design
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Qualifications and durations
- Full-time MSc 12 months Diploma 9 months
- Part-time MSc 28 months Diploma 20 months
Overview
The programme provides students with analytical and practical skills and a thorough grounding in the theory and practice of garden and cultural landscape conservation and management. It covers both designed and evolving organic landscapes, complex cultural landscapes and large landscape zones. The programme is taught by leading practitioners and academics and organised in four taught units: History and Theory; Survey and Assessment; Conservation and Management; and the Legislative Framework. MSc students also complete a dissertation. The taught units are also available on a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) basis. The programme is a candidate accredited course of the Landscape Institute.
Academic entry requirements
The programme is open to architects, landscape architects, archaeologists, horticulturists, land managers and other surveyors and suitably qualified candidates from other fields including conservationists, planners, geographers, engineers, and historians with a first degree or equivalent professional qualification or relevant experience. The programme is also available to graduates in other fields who wish to gain a vocational degree.
English requirements
IELTS 7.0 (with not less than 6.5 in each of the four components).
TOEFL 600 (paper-based test) or 250 (computer-based test) with a score of not less than 4 in TWE or 100 (internetbased test) with not less than 24 in each of the components.
Contact
Postgraduate Admissions Administrator
Email ace-research@bath.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0) 1225 386908
Fax +44 (0) 1225 386691
Web www.bath.ac.uk/ace/msc-conservation-gdns/
Fees in 2008-9
FT Diploma H £3090 O £8220
PT Diploma H £1540 O £4110
FT MSc H £4000 O £10300
PT MSc H £2000 O £5150