C10004v5 Bachelor of Design in Architecture
Award(s): Bachelor of Design in Architecture (BDes)UAC code: 602010
CRICOS code: 044179J
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 144
Course EFTSL: 3
Location: City campus
Note(s)
The Bachelor of Design 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
Admission requirements
Assumed knowledge
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Honours
Further study at UTS
Other information
Overview
The Bachelor of Design 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 practise in the architectural profession and to be a future leader in the design of the built environment.
The Bachelor of Design 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.
Admission requirements
Admission to this degree is based on formal academic qualifications. However, UTS: Design, Architecture and Building 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.
Assumed knowledge
Mathematics and any two units of English.
Physics; Visual Arts; Design; and History are recommended.
Course duration and attendance
The Bachelor of Design 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, totalling 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: Forming | 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: Making | 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: Strategy | 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: Performance | 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: Field | 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: Integration | 6cp | |
| 11247 Architectural History and Theory: Current Events and Debates | 6cp | |
| 11236 Built Praxis | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
Honours
Further information about an honours qualification is available from the UTS Student Centre.
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 Building 6 Student Centre on:
Service Desk https://servicedesk.uts.edu.au
www.dab.uts.edu.au
