COURSE INFORMATION

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Y94 Bachelor of Planning

The Bachelor of Planning has been designed to enable students to succeed in their chosen area of planning.  It draws on the University's broadly based expertise and provides a comprehensive and innovative planning program with distinctive strengths in community planning and project development.  The course focuses on the application of the quadruple bottom line with its emphasis on environmental, social, economic and governance accountability within a framework of sustainability.

 

 

Students choose one of the following Majors:

  1. Environmental and Physical Planning
  2. Policy and Governance
  3. Project Development
  4. Community Planning and Development 

 

These majors contain units from schools in the Faculty of Business and Law, Faculty of Computing, Health and Science, and the Faculty of Education and Arts.  This range of units reflects the multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary nature of the planning profession.

 

Students who are unable to complete the four-year Bachelor of Planning award may be eligible to exit with a Diploma of Planning or Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning having completed the appropriate units with course coordinator approval.

 

 
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Standard University admission requirements apply.

 
COURSE LOCATION
This course is available on Joondalup Campus.

Some units are only available in the on-campus mode of delivery. Some majors are delivered across campuses and will require students to attend both Joondalup and Mount Lawley campuses.
 
MODE OF STUDY
This course is available by Full-time, or Part-time mode.
 
MODE OF DELIVERY
This course is available in the following mode of delivery - On-campus.

Note: Some units are only available in the on-campus mode of delivery.
 
COURSE STRUCTURE

The Bachelor of Planning degree requires a minimum of 480 credit points (32 unit equivalent) and requires four years of full-time study or the part-time equivalent.

 

The degree has the following main components:

  1. A core program of 360 credit points (24 units equivalent); and
  2. A Major program of 120 credit points  (8 units);
 
YEAR ONE - SEMESTER 1
BES1100 Foundations of Business Knowledge 15
GEO1150 Geography and Environment: People, Pattern, Process 15
PLN1600 Foundations of Planning 15
LAW1100 Legal Framework I 15
 
YEAR ONE - SEMESTER 2
SCI1185 Ecology 15
BES1200 Business Knowledge Development 15
CSV1101 Introduction to Community Work 15
PLN2600 Contemporary Planning 15
 
YEAR TWO - SEMESTER 1
PLN2601 Principles of Urban Design 15
PLN3609 Heritage Planning 15
PLN2608 Statutory Planning 15
Plus one (1) unit from the major
 
YEAR TWO - SEMESTER 2
LAW2601 Planning and Development Law I 15
PLN2605 The Practice of Planning 15
PLN3600 Strategic Urban and Regional Planning 15
Plus one (1) unit from the major
 
YEAR THREE - SEMESTER 1
PLN3623 Urban Design Case Study 15
PLN3606 Urban Planning for Health 15
Plus two (2) units from the major or supplementary program
 
YEAR THREE - SEMESTER 2
PLN3607 Transport Planning 15
MAN3105 Business and Professional Ethics 15
Plus two (2) unit from the major
 
 
 
YEAR FOUR - SEMESTER 1
PLN4061 Planning Project 60 
 
YEAR FOUR - SEMESTER 2
MAN4612 Project Management 15
ECF3602 Economics for Planning and Development 15
Plus two (2) units from the major
 
 
 
MAAABQEnvironmental and Physical Planning Major
MAAABIPolicy and Governance Major
MAAABKProject Development Major
MAAACPCommunity Planning and Development Major
 
 
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes, Graduate Attributes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Student Equity, Diversity and Disability Service website:
http://intranet.ecu.edu.au/student/support/student-equity

Last Updated - Higher Education: 15/03/2013 VET: 20/05/2013