C10325v1 Bachelor of Design in Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation
Award(s): Bachelor of Design in Architecture (BDesign)Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCIInn)
UAC code: 609535 (Autumn session)
CRICOS code: 079755D
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 240
Course EFTSL: 5
Location: City campus
Notes
The Bachelor of Design in Architecture by itself does not lead to professional recognition as an architect. 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
Course intended learning outcomes
Career options
Admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Professional recognition
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.
Taking a trans-disciplinary approach, the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation utilises multiple perspectives from diverse fields, integrating a range of industry experiences, real-world projects and self-initiated proposals, equipping graduates to address the wicked problems, complex challenges and untapped opportunities in today's world.
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.
By focusing on the high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to the development of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial outcomes, students of the combined degree also gain leading edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world, including dealing with critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship, and the ability to work on their own, across and between other disciplines. These creative intelligence competencies enable graduates to navigate across a rapidly accelerating world of change.
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.
Course intended learning outcomes
| A.1 | Ability to take an informed and ethical position toward social, technical and environmental practices |
| A.2 | Ability to position work within practice and an extended disciplinary context |
| C.1 | Ability to work cooperatively and professionally as part of a team, manage and maintain partnerships with others, take a leadership role when required, and constructively contribute to peer learning |
| C.2 | Ability to communicate ideas effectively in a variety of ways including oral, written, visual, physical and digital |
| C.3 | Ability to engage and contribute to professional debate |
| GA1.1 | Identify and represent the components and processes within complex systems and organise them within relational frameworks |
| GA1.2 | Select, apply and evaluate various techniques and technologies for investigating and interpreting complex systems |
| GA1.3 | Discern common qualities of complex systems and model their behaviour |
| GA1.4 | Generate insights from the creative translation of models and patterns across different systems |
| GA2.1 | Recognise the nature of open, complex, dynamic and networked problems |
| GA2.2 | Explore the relevance of patterns, frameworks, approaches and methods from different disciplines, professional practices or fields of inquiry for gaining insights into particular problems, proposals, practices, contexts and systems |
| GA2.3 | Analyse problem situations or contexts from multiple disciplinary or personal perspectives and integrate findings in creative and useful ways |
| GA2.4 | Test the value of different patterns, frameworks and methods for exploring and addressing complex challenges |
| GA2.5 | Interrogate and generate ways to create value and evaluate outcomes |
| GA2.6 | Examine, test, appreciate and articulate the actual value of outcomes for different stakeholders, communities or cultures over time |
| GA3.1 | Communicate, explore, network and negotiate in ways that are inclusive of and mine for ideas from diverse disciplines |
| GA3.2 | Design, develop and apply appropriate team-based decision making frameworks and participate collaboratively in teams according to proposed intentions |
| GA3.3 | Use a range of appropriate media, tools, techniques and methods creatively and critically in multi-disciplinary teams to discover, investigate, design, produce and communicate ideas or artefacts |
| GA3.4 | Articulate often-complex ideas simply, succinctly and persuasively to a diverse team or audience |
| GA3.5 | Create environments to support inspiration and reflexivity so that inter- and trans-disciplinary practices can develop and thrive |
| GA3.6 | Recognise problems, challenges and opportunities that require transdisciplinary practices and assemble relevant teams to begin dealing with those problems, challenges and opportunities |
| GA4.1 | Identify significant issues, challenges or opportunities and assess potential to act creatively and ethically on them |
| GA4.2 | Design and develop ideas, strategies and practices for betterment that engage with and respond respectfully, generatively and analytically to different ways of knowing across community and cultural contexts |
| GA4.3 | Make decisions that recognise the humanity of others by engaging ethically and sensitively to the values of particular groups, communities, organisations or cultures |
| GA4.4 | Exercise good judgment in knowing when to take a leadership role, and when to enable leadership by others to address community, organisational or cultural issues, challenges and opportunities through innovation |
| GA5.1 | Imagine and design initiatives within existing organisational structures (intrapreneurship) or build a new context for change (entrepreneurship) |
| GA5.2 | Explore and articulate the transformation required to create and implement innovation, with sensitivity to the creative destruction that this requires |
| GA5.3 | Identify required capabilities for realising an idea and create a venture team to achieve the aspirations of a particular innovation |
| GA5.4 | Communicate confidently and with diplomacy to influence essential stakeholders or decision makers and to achieve impact |
| I.1 | Ability to understand and challenge disciplinary conventions and develop innovate approaches |
| I.2 | Ability to initiate and execute meaningful self-directed iterative processes |
| I.3 | Ability to produce inspirational responses that exemplify integration of learning experiences |
| P.1 | Ability to apply communication techniques (digital and/or manual), knowledge and understanding to practical applications in architecture |
| P.2 | Ability to thoughtfully apply/deploy disciplinary learning in work, with a continuing commitment to personal professional development |
| P.3 | Ability to demonstrate knowledge of both past and current architectural practices |
| R.1 | Ability to independently select and apply appropriate research methodologies to carry out investigative study and source, evaluate and utilise appropriate academic and professional references |
| R.2 | Ability to analyse, synthesise and formulate complex ideas, arguments and rationales and explore alternatives in a self-directed manner |
| R.3 | Ability to demonstrate knowledge of architectural precedent and to place architectural practice within a contextual framework |
| R.4 | Ability to reflect and engage in self-critique and critical thinking in order to inform a range of outcomes |
Career options
Career options include architect (after completion of the Master of Architecture), urban designer, landscape architect, administrator, policy maker, researcher, educator, or journalist.
By being creative thinkers, initiators of new ideas, scenario planners, global strategists, open network designers or sustainable futures innovators within their chosen field of study, graduates maximise the potential of their chosen profession, making them highly sought after graduates with the ability to identify and develop solutions to some of the most complex issues that face their disciplines and society.
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
Admission to the combined degree is on merit according to the admissions policy for the Bachelor of Design in Architecture.
Students must refer to the inherent requirements for all degrees offered by Design and Architecture in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: Academic IELTS: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL: paper based: 550-583 overall with TWE of 4.5, internet based: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64; or CAE: 176-184.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Course duration and attendance
The course duration is four years of full-time study (or equivalent).
Course structure
Students must complete 240 credit points, comprising 144 credit points in Architecture and 96 credit points in creative intelligence and innovation. The creative intelligence and innovation subjects are undertaken in accelerated form within July and Summer sessions during the first three years of study, and through one full year of study after completion of the professional degree. The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation is not offered as a separate degree, but is completed only in combination with the professional degree program.
Industrial training/professional practice
Within the final year of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation, students can undertake between 6 and 12 credit points of internship (work experience) that relates to innovation within their research, career development, or core degree specialisations. For students undertaking 12 credit points of internship, international internships may be negotiated.
Course completion requirements
| STM90375 Core subjects | 120cp | |
| CBK90284 Sub-major/Electives | 24cp | |
| STM90839 Core subjects (Creative Intelligence and Innovation) | 96cp | |
| Total | 240cp |
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 session and undertaking the course full time.
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11211 Architectural Design: Forming | 6cp | |
| 11212 Architectural History and Theory: Orientations | 6cp | |
| 11205 Architecture and Landscape Cultures | 6cp | |
| 11214 Architectural Design: Architectural Communications | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81511 Problems to Possibilities | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11209 Architectural Design: Making | 6cp | |
| 11216 Architectural History and Theory: Modernity and Modernism | 6cp | |
| 11206 Introduction to Construction and Structural Synthesis | 6cp | |
| 11208 Architectural Design: Architectural Communications 2 | 6cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 81512 Creative Practice and Methods | 8cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 11221 Architectural Design: Strategy | 6cp | |
| 11248 Architectural History and Theory: Urbanism and the City | 6cp | |
| 11207 Architectural Design and Construction | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81513 Past, Present, Future of Innovation | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11222 Architectural History and Theory: Critique | 6cp | |
| 11227 Architectural Design: Performance | 6cp | |
| 11225 Thermal Design and Environmental Control | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 81514 Creativity and Complexity | 8cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 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 | |
| July session | ||
| 81515 Leading Innovation | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 11234 Architectural Design: Integration | 6cp | |
| 11247 Architectural History and Theory: Current Events and Debates | 6cp | |
| 11204 Integrated Systems | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points of electives | 6cp | |
| Summer session | ||
| 81516 Initiatives and Entrepreneurship | 8cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 81521 Envisioning Futures | 6cp | |
| Select one of the following: | 6cp | |
| 81522 Innovation Internship A | 6cp | |
| 81523 Speculative Start-Up | 6cp | |
| 81531 Innovation Capstone: Research and Development | 12cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 81524 Professional Practice at the Cutting Edge | 6cp | |
| 81525 Innovation Internship B | 6cp | |
| 81532 Innovation Capstone: Realisation and Transformation | 12cp | |
Professional recognition
The Bachelor of Design in Architecture followed by the Master of Architecture (C04235) is accredited for professional recognition by the NSW Architects Registration Board, the Australian Institute of Architects and the Commonwealth Association of Architects.
Other information
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