Entry requirements

A 2:2 honours degree, or international equivalent, in a landscape discipline or related field.

Landscape disciplines could include:

• landscape planning

• landscape management

• landscape architecture, landscape studies

• landscape ecology

• landscape sciences

Related fields include, but are not limited to:

• geography

• planning

• urban design

• botany ecology

• forestry

• farming

• rural studies

• zoology

• environmental sciences

• geohumanities

• anthropology

• heritage studies

• tourism studies

We will also consider applicants on an individual basis with non-standard qualifications, and those with at least five years relevant work experience.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Overview

Our Master’s will enable you to develop the knowledge and skills you need to work in organisations and authorities responsible for planning and managing landscapes.

The Advanced Landscape Planning and Management MSc is an innovative one-year postgraduate programme. This course will provide you with the intellectual and practical skills required for effective landscape planning and management.

As a landscape planner or landscape manager, you will design, care for, and maintain the countryside, as well as urban and coastal landscapes. You will ensure that these landscapes meet the needs and aspirations of present and future owners, communities and users.

What you will learn on our Master’s will be relevant worldwide. You’ll develop the skills needed to tackle key challenges facing contemporary society:

climate change
species loss
rapid urbanisation
migration (human and non-human)
social justice and belonging
heritage restoration

This Advanced Landscape Planning and Management course is suitable for:

graduates in other disciplines who wish to qualify as professional landscape planners and managers
landscape planners or managers who want to secure an academic qualification
those with international landscape qualifications (or related disciplines) who wish to pursue professional studies in the UK
those interested in advanced level research in landscape planning, landscape management, and landscape studies

What you'll learn

Our Advanced Landscape Planning and Management Master’s involves classroom-led and fieldwork-led learning.

This course will help you develop and demonstrate the ability to:

think critically about planning and management in relation to long-term stewardship of landscapes
understand the complexities of landscape issues and opportunities, applying knowledge from across the curriculum
devise effective planning and management solutions to landscape problems
respond creatively to complex landscape planning and management briefs
generate well-considered proposals that show understanding of context, scale and time
evaluate materials, processes and techniques and integrate these into feasible strategies
understand how landscape has been conceptualised and theorised throughout history
evaluate the philosophies, ideologies and critical positions which underpin different approaches to landscape research
engage with complex ideas and a range of stakeholders

This course is intellectually stimulating. It builds on our staff's international research reputation and teaching strengths in:

climate crisis, green infrastructure and nature-based thinking
interspecies relations
critical social and political landscape approaches
advanced landscape research skills

Newcastle University's Centre for Research Excellence in Landscape creates a matchless environment for interdisciplinary research-informed teaching in landscape. Leading organisations, institutions and authorities responsible for managing landscapes provide additional input.