Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 12 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| Assessment:
| CW 45%, EX 55% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| While taking this unit you must take AR50335 |
| Description:
| Aims: To give the students knowledge of statutory and legislative requirements regarding historic landscapes, including an understanding of planning law, casework, conservation and the historic environment at a national and international level, international charters and an awareness of key relevant organisations relating to landscapes. The unit includes an introduction to research methods and dissertation writing in the first week which is followed up with regular seminar sessions throughout the semester. Learning Outcomes: Students successfully completing this unit will be able to demonstrate: * An understanding and critical awareness of the statutory and legislative requirements regarding historic landscapes including an understanding of planning law, casework, conservation and the historic environment at a national and international level, international charters and a knowledge of key relevant organisations relating to landscapes. * A sound knowledge of the current system of heritage protection. * Practical and conceptual understanding that enables the student to make critical evaluations and prepare reports that are intelligible to specialist and non-specialist readers, on gardens, landscapes, sites, historic building fabric and artefacts illustrated by graphics such as sketches and photographs. * A practical understanding of research methodologies and archives and the ability to apply techniques of research, analysis, recording and evaluation to primary source material. * The ability to research, record, analyse, interpret and understand the significance of buildings and sites. * To appreciate and understand the urban or landscape context of historic buildings and their contents, artefacts, ensembles and sites. * To demonstrate a practical and conceptual understanding that enables the student to make critical evaluations and prepare reports that are intelligible to specialist and non-specialist readers, on gardens, landscapes, sites, historic building fabric and artefacts illustrated by graphics such as sketches and photographs. Skills: Written communication, oral communication, data acquisition, handling and analysis, problem solving, working independently - taught, facilitated and assessed. Students will be able to: * operate within the appropriate code of professional conduct, recognising obligations to society, the profession and the environment. * evaluate the significance of a site, including the processes which shaped it, measure its vulnerability, assess the impact of proposed change, and form a view of how decisions are made on what to keep, conserve, modify or lose. * assess appropriate management and conservation approaches and to write a coherent conservation and management plan. * use the knowledge and understanding of the wider context and issues of the historic environment and to interact effectively with bodies and individuals who have a significant role to play in the field, and to make balanced judgements based on ethical principles and accept responsibility for their implementation. * synthesise a comprehensive and critical review of the historic environment and to translate the conclusions and findings by authoring and producing written reports to a standard consistent with professional requirements. Also to be able to identify and diagnose intrinsic and extrinsic causes and formulate a basis for appropriate responses or action. * carry out or commission research, analysis and recording of the historic environment and to maintain records accordingly. * document and communicate ideas effectively in writing and orally in a way appropriate and accessible to both professional and lay audiences. * critically evaluate arguments, assumptions and data and to make judgements, frame questions and achieve or identify a range of solutions to problems. * work autonomously or in multi-disciplinary groups and with other professionals in related fields using sound methods to resolve conflicts and develop straategies appropriate to needs, abilities and resources, and to recognise when advice should be sought and define areas of need for study by different groups. Content: The legislation at a national and international level as it relates to conservation, including Conservation Areas, Heritage Protection, Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSI's), Tree Preservation Orders, Planning Policy Guidance Notes, local statutory plans, the role of pressure groups and the Garden History Society and the Association of Garden Trusts. World Heritage Sites and International Charters and standards, ICOMOS, the Burra Charter., and the European Landscape Covention. |
| Programme availability: |
AR50333 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
AR50333 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
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