A specialised individual study, enabling each student to gain or extend knowledge and understanding in some aspect of landscape architecture. The proposed topic area and title must be approved by the Course Authority and the Program Head. The thesis is essentially evidence of this individual study, under staff supervision and culminating in a written document deposited in the Faculty library. The course requires each student to carry out the required research, organization of material and writing in order to submit a complete draft of a written thesis in week 7. Each student then refines the draft and undertakes the preparation of illustrative material and completion of all necessary references and bibliography, before the submission of the final unbound manuscript for assessment. The unbound manuscript is assessed by two readers and returned with corrections noted, so that a bound copy of the thesis can be lodged with the Faculty Student Centre. This one session course is graded in accordance with the normal University grading system.