Undergraduate Course: Academic Portfolio Review (ARCH09020)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art | 
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 20 | 
ECTS Credits | 10 | 
 
 
| Summary | Indicative course content 
A review all of the design projects undertaken in the first three stages of the BA(Hons) programme, through the compilation of an individual portfolio and an accompanying reflective text. 
 
Aims of course 
1 The compilation of a personal portfolio and a self assessment of individual development as a designer will assist the student in their development as a reflective practitioner and in obtaining a placement during stage 4. 
 
Mode of delivery 
Individual tutorials and directed reading. | 
 
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
 Students MUST have passed:  
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  Pre-requisites  
none 
 
Co-requisites  
none 
 
Prohibited combinations  
none | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - use the portfolio format to communicate landscape architectural knowledge & information.
 - organise and synthesise different landscape architectural representations chronologically & spatially in a portfolio format.
 - self-review personal development as a designer though reflection & with reference to key texts.
 
     
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Reading List 
Indicative Bibliography  
Doidge, C. Sara, R. Parnell, R. Parsons, M. The crit: an architecture student's handbook Lawson, B. How designers think: the design process demystified.  Linton, H. Portfolio Design   Marjanovic, I. Ray, K. R. Lokko, L. N. N. The portfolio: an architecture student's handbook Schon, D. A. Educating the reflective practitioner: toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions |   
 
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Special Arrangements | 
Landscape Institute criteria: landscape design; professional context. | 
 
| Keywords | PORTFOLIO,REFLECTIVE PRACTICE,PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Mr John Stuart-Murray 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5798 
Email: j.stuart-murray@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Mrs Karen Biggar 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5803 
Email: Karen.Biggar@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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