C10004v4 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture

Award(s): Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (BA)
CRICOS code: 044179J
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 144
Course EFTSL: 3
Faculty/institute responsible: Design, Architecture and Building
Location: City campus

Note(s)

The Bachelor of Arts in Architecture by itself does not lead to professional recognition. To become a professional architect, students must complete this degree followed by the Master of Architecture (C04235) (an additional two years of full-time study or equivalent).

Overview
Course aims
Career options
Additional admission requirements
Additional assumed knowledge
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Industrial training/professional practice
Course completion requirements
Course program
Honours
Other information

Overview

The Bachelor of Arts in Architecture is the first of two degrees needed to become an architect. Students wishing to qualify for professional recognition as architects must also complete the Master of Architecture (C04235). UTS Architecture courses provide the skills and knowledge necessary to practice in the architectural profession and to be a future leader in the design of the built environment.

The Bachelor of Arts in Architecture provides students with a rich education oriented towards international practice and design experimentation. Teaching is hands-on and undertaken in teams using the most innovative digital design and fabrication technologies available to the architectural profession in dedicated studios and workshops.

UTS students have the benefit of learning from a cohesive team who are passionate about architecture and engage with the discipline as practitioners, researchers, educators and critics.

The first year is undertaken full-time, but in subsequent years students can enrol part-time, making it possible to gain significant professional experience before graduation.

Course aims

This degree provides a liberal introduction to the study of architecture as a discipline. Students gain a critical and ethical awareness of architecture as a discipline with much to offer in the face of many of today's most pressing societal challenges. It equips students to join other design fields or related disciplines, and it prepares students for the Master of Architecture degree.

Career options

There are many career options, including: administrator, journalist, researcher or policy maker, urban designer, landscape architect, and educator.

Additional admission requirements

Admission to this degree is based on formal academic qualifications. However, the Faculty may consider applications based on the results of the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) if students lack academic qualifications but have extensive professional experience. The STAT is conducted through UAC.

Additional assumed knowledge

Mathematics and any two units of English.

Physics; Visual Arts; Design; and History are recommended.

Course duration and attendance

The Bachelor of Arts in Architecture is a three-year full-time (or equivalent) degree. Year 1 is recommended to be taken in full-time mode.

Course structure

The course comprises a total of 144 credit points. The normal full-time load is four 6-credit-point subjects per semester, equalling 48 credit points per year for three years.

Year 1 comprises four compulsory 6-credit-point subjects per semester. Years 2 and 3 comprise one 6-credit-point elective and three compulsory subjects per semester.

Industrial training/professional practice

This course gives students the option of practice-based learning subjects that allows them to gain experience in the industry.

Course completion requirements

STM90375 Core subjects		120cp
CBK90284 Sub-major/Electives		24cp
Total		144cp

Course program

The subjects listed below represent the standard full-time course. Under certain circumstances, students may apply for exemptions from some subjects. The example program below is for a student commencing in Autumn semester and undertaking the course full time.



Year 1
Autumn semester
11211 Architectural Design: Thinking, Making and Inhabiting		6cp
11212 Architectural History and Theory: Orientations		6cp
11203 Architecture Culture and Environment		6cp
11214 Architectural Design: Architectural Communications		6cp
Spring semester
11215 Architectural Design: Design Basics		6cp
11216 Architectural History and Theory: Modernity and Modernism		6cp
11217 Introduction to Construction and Structural Synthesis		6cp
11208 Architectural Design: Architectural Communications 2		6cp
Year 2
Autumn semester
11221 Architectural Design : Architectonics		6cp
11222 Architectural History and Theory: Critique		6cp
11248 Architectural History and Theory: Urbanism and the City		6cp
Select 6 credit points of electives		6cp
Spring semester
11224 Architectural Design: Structure, Form and Typology		6cp
11225 Thermal Design and Environmental Control		6cp
11226 Architectural Structure and Construction		6cp
Select 6 credit points of electives		6cp
Year 3
Autumn semester
11231 Architectural Design: the Meaning of the Public Realm		6cp
11232 Lighting, Acoustics and Advanced Environmental Control		6cp
11233 Advanced Architectural Construction		6cp
Select 6 credit points of electives		6cp
Spring semester
11234 Architectural Design: Design Pragmatics		6cp
11247 Architectural History and Theory: Current Events and Debates		6cp
11236 Built Praxis		6cp
Select 6 credit points of electives		6cp

Honours

For information about an Honours qualification, contact the Faculty Student Administration Unit.

Further study at UTS

Students who have successfully completed this course may proceed to the Master of Architecture (C04235) as continuing students, provided they enrol in the next academic year after award of the degree, or seek leave of absence for no longer than one academic year after the award.

Other information

Further information is available from the Faculty Student Administration Unit on:

telephone +61 2 9514 8913
email dab.info@uts.edu.au
http://www.dab.uts.edu.au