Postgraduate Course: Sustainable Theory and Contexts (distance learning) (ARCH11037)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This is a distance learning course, delivered entirely online using as its main delivery platform our virtual learning environment . The choice of this mode of delivery enables you to shape your study pattern around your working day and other commitments.
This course engages with key theories and contexts of sustainable development with specific reference to the built environment. The course does not require any specific design skills but you should have an interest and engagement with building, the neighbourhood and the city. The course has two key themes:
Communicating Complexity
This immerses you in the realities of sustainable design discourses, namely a vast repository of knowledge and guidance that requires intelligent analysis to construct legible and relevant sustainable design frameworks.
Building Capacity
How do we get the tools we need to undertake sustainable design? Building capacity as a concept does not tell you what you need to know but critically how to research and how to communicate that research.
Critical Theories and Practice
Much of what we understand as sustainable architecture is underpinned by theory. We engage with some of the key foundations of environmental design and how it affects design practice in the built environment.
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| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
You are asked to undertake a research project counting towards 50% of the total assessment that relates to all the learning outcomes
You will complete an essay counting towards 30% of the total assessment. It relates specifically to the second learning outcome.
You undertake a weblog journal that counts towards 20% of the total assessment. This is a learning diary that relates to learning outcomes 2 and 3
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| Feedback |
Formative feedback is given to you during the course to help you understand the learning material and assist you in the assignments we ask you to do. Summative feedback is given on a finished piece of assignment work that advises you how well you have performed in terms of the aims and objectives of the assignment and overall in relation to the course.
You will receive formative feedback for all your submitted components of assessment. This will be a key way in which we tutor you on this distance learning course.
You will receive summative feedback with a grade for each item of coursework you complete.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Develop an ability to critically assess sustainable strategies in the built environment.
- Understand the cultural, historic and scientific roots of environmental thought.
- Gain skills in the application of sustainable theory to built environment contexts.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
No formal class sessions as the course is delivered through distance learning. |
| Keywords | sustainable theory contexts city environmental |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr John Brennan
Tel: (0131 6)50 2324
Email: John.Brennan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Susan Mitchell
Tel: (0131 6)51 5743
Email: Susan.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk |
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