Postgraduate Course: MLA Landscape Portfolio 3 (ARCH11187)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | MLA Portfolio 3 is a complex major landscape design project. It allows advanced study in an specialized area of Landscape Architecture. It tackles problems/issues in the wider landscape and requires students to work at a range of scales over a significant area of landscape/townscape. It is a combination of group work and individual project work. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Explore the creative potential of different fieldwork and analytical techniques demonstrating how the results of this process informs your individual conceptual thinking
2. Demonstrate an advanced ability to communicate your design proposals through verbal, graphic, written and three dimensional techniques.
3. Develop complex and appropriate landscape framework proposals utilizing spatial and compositional aspects, programmatic aspects and time based strategies
4. Develop imaginative proposals in response to a set brief, for the rejuvenation of large and complex sites at a range of scales from landscape strategy to focused design intervention |
Assessment Information
Project and supporting workbooks (100%)
Students must pass all learning outcomes. The aggregation of failed Learning outcomes with passing learning outcomes to generate an overall pass mark is not permitted. Failure of one learning outcome will result in a Forced Fail (FF) outcome.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
critical analysis, organization and setting aims
creative problem solving
communication and presentation skills: graphical and verbal
group/team working |
| Reading list |
As appropriate to the design project undertaken |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
The course is 40 credits. The student will be expected to work for 400 hours on this course. At least 150 hours will be in the design studio and crit where tuition is provided. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Kenneth Fraser
Tel: (0131 6)51 5799
Email: kenny.fraser@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Margaret Dingsdale
Tel: 0131 651 5803
Email: m.dingsdale@ed.ac.uk |
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