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BACHELOR OF PLANNING

Bachelor of Planning (BPlan) - first intake Semester 1 2008

Macquarie University introduces a new undergraduate planning program in 2008. Planning is one of the high growth areas for employment and the skills of the planner are in demand from local councils, developers and a range of government and community sector employers.

The four-year BPlan program offers students interested in urban studies a professional planning qualification (pending PIA accreditation) and employment in the planning field.

Graduates will be equipped with a range of skills and knowledge relevant to a number of planning occupations in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. The BPlan builds on Macquarie's strong interdisciplinary programs in environmental studies and social science, and a very strong research profile in the fields of urban studies, climate change, risk management and sustainability in urban settings, to provide the Sydney region's first undergraduate planning program with a strong interdisciplinary social and environmental focus. Options in development studies in the BPlan also offer students access to hands-on experience in rapid urban development in the Asia-Pacific.

Macquarie University's Planning degree addresses a significant gap in planning education in Sydney. The Macquarie program's interdisciplinary social and environmental orientation to planning marks out a distinctive edge for graduates compared to more traditional programs with their narrower focus on urban design and architecture. It builds on Macquarie University's existing strengths in urban studies, to integrate economic, social, environmental and cultural dimensions of planning and urban management. With strong interdisciplinary links into environmental studies, anthropology and the social science program, and a very strong urban research profile in the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion - including strong and growing links with several local councils in the surrounding region - and links to powerful research on responses to climate change, risk management and sustainability in urban settings, the program is the Sydney region's first undergraduate planning program with a strong interdisciplinary social and environmental focus.

The BPlan makes good use of Macquarie's geographical advantage arising from our location in Sydney's regions of high population and employment growth (the north-west sector and Central Coast) and will equip graduates to move into positions in local government planning and urban development, where there is very strong jobs growth.

For more information link to BPlanning_StudyPattern.pdf
and http://www.handbook.mq.edu.au/degree.php?edition=2008&id=24746

Enquiries for enrolment can be made through:

Dr Robyn Dowling
Macquarie University NSW 2109
Ph: +61-2-9850 7477
Fax: +61-2-9850 6052
E-mail: rdowling@els.mq.edu.au

 

 

 

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