Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning

Rules Variation Summary for 2025

Summary of Changes for 2025

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

Admission:

ATAR reduced to 65

Vocational Education & Training (VET) Entry Requirements: Level and Tye of qualification minimum requirement reduced to Certificate III

Nil

Rules Variation Summary for 2024

Summary of Changes for 2024

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

Program of study:

  • GEPL401 removed
  • GEPL402 removed
  • GEPL445 removed
  • GEPL450 removed
  • GEPL491 added to Core Units and is repeatable
  • GEPL492 added to Core Units and is repeatable
Note program of study changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2023

Summary of Changes for 2023

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

Program of study:

  • ARPA352 replaced with ARPA320
  • GEPL465 deleted
  • GEPL466 will become a repeatable unit.
Note program of study changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2022

Summary of Changes for 2022

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

Program of Study

  • ECON101, WRIT101 and GEPL390 removed
  • GEPL361 title changed to Community Planning and Participation.
  • GEPL465 and GEPL466 have replaced GEPL301 and GEPL345 from the candidates not undertaking Honours list.
  • GEPL455 has been added to the list for candidates undertaking Honours. This unit will be 48cps.
  • GEPL301 has been removed from core units
  • GEPL401 has been added to core units
  • GEPL445 has been added to core units

Note unit, unit title and credit point changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2021

Summary of Changes for 2021

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

No changes for 2021

Nil

Rules Variation Summary for 2020

Summary of Changes for 2020

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

Program of Study

Core Unit

  • ENGT237 title change

Note unit title changes.

Rules Variation Summary for 2019

Summary of Changes for 2019

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

There are no changes for 2019

Nil

Rules Variation Summary for 2018

Summary of Changes for 2018

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

Core Units:

  • ENCO100 unit code has changed to WRIT101
  • GEPL370 title changed to Place-making for People and the Environment

Note unit code and title changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2017

Summary of Changes for 2017

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

Core Units:

  • GEPL121 title changed to Introduction to Planning History and Theory
  • GEPL122 title changed to Introduction to Plan Making
  • GEPL328 title changed to Planning Theory and Practice
  • GEPL450 title changed to Transport and Land Use Planning

Note unit title changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2016

Summary of Changes for 2016

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

  • There are no changes for 2016

Nil

Rules Variation Summary for 2015

Summary of Changes for 2015

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

Core Units:

  • EM334 title changed to Introduction to GIS and Spatial Thinking

Note unit title change

Rules Variation Summary for 2014

Summary of Changes for 2014

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

There have been some major changes to the Core Units component of the Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning.

Two extra columns have been added:

  • Candidates NOT wishing to complete the Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning with Honours must complete the following units: GEPL301 and GEPL345 (total 12 cps)
  • Candidates wishing to complete the Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning with Honours must complete the following units: GEPL401, GEPL445 and GEPL455:12 (total 24 cps)

Core Units:

  • Credit points changed from 162 cps to 150 cps
  • ENGT237 title changed to Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Infrastructure
  • GEPL301 and GEPL345 moved to section – Candidates NOT wishing to complete the Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning with Honours
  • GEPL302 replaced with GEPL402 Architecture and Urban Design
  • GEPL350 replaced with GEPL450 Access and Mobility

Elective Units:

  • Credit points changed from 30 cps to 18-30 cps as follows -
  • Candidates NOT completing Honours complete 30 cps with not more than 6 cps at 100-level
  • Candidates wishing to complete Honours complete 18 cps with not more than 6 cps at 100-level

Note unit and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2014 course rules

Rules Variation Summary for 2013

Summary of Changes for 2013

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

Core Units:

  • Credit points changed from 156 cps to 162 cps
  • BCSS100 and EM312 have been withdrawn
  • ENCO100 title changed to The Craft of Academic Writing
  • GEPL124, GEPL361 and GEPL390 have been added

Elective Units:

  • Credit points changed from 36 cps to 30 cps

Note unit and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2013 course rules

Rules Variation Summary for 2012

Summary of Changes for 2012

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

  • There are no changes for 2012

Nil

Rules Variation Summary for 2011

Summary of Changes for 2011

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

  • EM312 title changed to Environmental Impact Assessment
  • ENVE237 code changed to ENGT237 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
  • GEPL311 title changed to Catchment to Coast

Note the unit/title changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2010

Summary of Changes for 2010

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

  • ARPA352 title changed to Public Archaeology and Management
  • GEPL112 title changed to Where in the World? Australia's Human Geography
  • GEPL338 title changed to Understanding Research

Note the unit title changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2009

Summary of Changes for 2009

Implications for current Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning students

  • Code for core unit EM234 changed to EM334
  • Title of ENVE237 changed to Introduction to Environmental Engineering
  • Title of GEPL301 changed to Economic Change and Urban Development

Note the unit changes