Recommendations for Masters Programmes and Continuing Education Modules

Within the timescales commonly available for undergraduate programmes it will never be possible to teach all the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding which are required to practise and undertake scholarship in landscape architecture.
For this reason it will be essential to develop concepts for a range of masters’ programmes. These will need to be both at a general professional level, building on the subject areas treated in the undergraduate programmes and rounding off the basic education for landscape architecture practice, as well as specialist masters programmes, allowing students or professionals to acquire further skills and understanding within specific areas. Outline structures for a range of masters’ programmes will be developed to encourage individual schools or consortia to develop their contents in more detail, allowing the limited personnel resources within Europe’s landscape schools to work together to be able to offer the maximum range of programmes, with an optimal geographic distribution across the continent.
A similar approach will be developed with regard to the needs of practice for short courses for continuing professional development.