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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2023/2024

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Year 1 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: September

Please note: Alternative relevant option courses to those listed below may be substituted with the written permission of the Programme Director.

Compulsory courses

Exploring Situated Methods 1: Site-Specific Field Lab

Must be taken during Semester 1

Exploring Situated Methods 2: Independent Field Lab

Must be taken during Semester 2

Architecture, Landscape & Environment: Situated Research Project

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Cultural Landscapes Colloquium

Topics in Environmental Humanities

Architectural Theory: Texts and Discourses

AND

Please note: Elective courses listed are not always offered every year.

World Heritage

Thinking With Fire (Level 11)

Architectural Theory: Texts and Discourses

Multi-Sensory Cultures (Level 11)

Environmental Design: Materials, Ecologies, Futures

Interpreting the Landscape

Green Thoughts: Landscape, Environment and Literature (PG Version)

Verdant Landscapes: Early Modern Land Imaginaries

Memorials and Cultural Memory

Introduction to Community Arts Practice: Modes, Methods and Meanings

Global Environment: Key Issues

OR

Please note: Elective courses listed are not always offered every year. Students can propose to take other relevant courses from across the wider UoE catalogue with the explicit approval of the student's Programme Director and, where required, the Course Organiser. In each semester, students can select 20 credits from course options across the University, using the following rules:

- In each semester select maximum of 20 credits from level 10 or 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T, W and Y
- PGT students are only permitted to take up to 20 credits of Level 10 courses in total across a programme of study, as per the University Taught Assessment Regulations.
- Course options should not conflict with the core teaching timetable and will require the approval of the student's Programme Director and, where required, the Course Organiser.

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Histories and Theories of Architecture

Time and Environment

AND

Please note: Elective courses listed are not always offered every year.

Emergent Cities

Heritage, Sustainability and Environmental Justice

Contemporary Art + Anthropology (Level 11)

Designing for Change: Projects and Practices

Writing Landscape

Social Movements and the Environment

Creativity and the Environment

Anthropology and Environment

The social life of food

OR

Please note: Elective courses listed are not always offered every year. Students can propose to take other relevant courses from across the wider UoE catalogue with the explicit approval of the student's Programme Director and, where required, the Course Organiser. In each semester, students can select 20 credits from course options across the University, using the following rules:

- In each semester select maximum of 20 credits from level 10 or 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T, W and Y
- PGT students are only permitted to take up to 20 credits of Level 10 courses in total across a programme of study, as per the University Taught Assessment Regulations.
- Course options should not conflict with the core teaching timetable and will require the approval of the student's Programme Director and, where required, the Course Organiser.

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