Awards
Target Award
Award Description:Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Fnd) - BAHF
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Programme Offerings
Full-Time
F2F-JMU-SEP
Educational Aims of the Course
To produce architecture graduates equipped to participate successfully in professional architectural and interior design practice and as members of teams whose aims are to design and realise architectural designs within the context of contemporary culture and global environmental and sustainable concerns. To provide a cohesive and focussed educational experience that integrates theoretical and practical aspects of architectural design in parallel with skills in personal, intellectual and ethical conduct. To introduce students to progressively challenging and complex problems, in a learning environment that cares for the individual student's progress, irrespective of race, background, gender or physical disability, and allows for increasing personal responsibility and professional maturity. To encourage students to fully engage with the development of employability skills by completing a self-awareness statement.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate adequate knowledge of the histories and theories of architecture, design and the related arts, technologies and human sciences (GC2)
2.
Demonstrate adequate knowledge of the industries, organisations, regulations and procedures involved in translating design concepts into buildings. (GC11)
3.
Demonstrate a systematic understanding of key aspects of architecture, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at least some of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of the discipline of interior architectural Design and remodelling of existing Buildings (QD 1.1).
4.
Demonstrate an ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within architecture (QD 1.2)
5.
To devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of the discipline (QD 1.3)
6.
To describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in architecture (QD 1.4)
7.
Demonstrate an appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge (QD 1.5)
8.
The ability to manage their own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to architecture) (QD 1.6)
9.
Apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects (QD 1.7)
10.
Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions - to a problem (QD 1.8)
11.
Communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences (QD 1.9)
12.
Demonstrate a knowledge of the fine arts as an influence on the quality of architectural design (GC3)
13.
Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between people and buildings, and between buildings and their environment, and the need to relate buildings and the spaces within them to human needs and scale (GC5)
14.
Demonstrate an understanding of the methods of investigation and preparation of the brief for an architectural design project (GC7)
15.
Demonstrate the ability to create architectural designs that satisfy both aesthetic and technical requirements (GC1)
16.
Demonstrate that they possess the necessary design skills to meet building users' requirements within the constraints imposed by cost factors and building regulations (GC10)
17.
Demonstrate an understanding of architectural design practice and the role of the interior architectural designer in society, in particular in preparing briefs that take account of social factors (GC6)
18.
Demonstrate an understanding of the structural design, constructional and engineering problems associated with building design (GC8)
19.
Demonstrate adequate knowledge of physical problems and technologies and the function of buildings so as to provide them with internal conditions of comfort and protections against the climate (GC9)
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
History & Theory modules - Teaching is predominantly through a series of thematic lectures. Learning is consolidated through seminars. Assessed through written and illustrated essays and reports Design modules - Teaching is predominantly through a series of thematic lectures. Learning is consolidated through tutorials, design workshops and design reviews. Assessed through written, drawn and modelled coursework submissions Integrated Design modules - Teaching is predominantly through a series of thematic lectures. Learning is consolidated through tutorials, design workshops and design reviews. Assessed through written, drawn and modelled coursework submissions Environment and Technology Modules - Teaching is predominantly through a series of thematic lectures. Learning is consolidated through seminars, design workshops and CAD workshops. Assessed through written, drawn and modelled coursework submissions. Practice and Legislation module - Teaching is predominantly through a series of thematic lectures and CAD workshops. Assessed through written and illustrated reports.
Programme Structure
Programme Structure Description
Students will be offered the opportunity of study abroad at Level 5. Students will be enrolled on a 360 credit honours with study abroad programme. A 60 credit Level 5 study abroad module 5120IA will normally replace the semester 2 modules on the standard programme. This study abroad should cover … For more content click the Read More button below.
Structure
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations
This programme has a variance in place as listed below: It is the requirement of the RIBA that complete academic portfolios of the award years be available to External Examiners at the end of academic year. Semester 1 work is therefore considered by a Board of Examiners in June each … For more content click the Read More button below.
Entry Requirements
A levels
Access awards
Alternative qualifications considered
BTECs
GCSEs and equivalents
IELTS
International Baccalaureate
Irish awards
NVQ
Reduced offer scheme
T levels
UCAS points
Welsh awards
Extra Entry Requirements
Can this course be deferred?
Yes
Is a DBS check required?
No
OCR National acceptability
- National Certificate: Acceptable only when combined with other qualifications
- National Diploma: Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications
- National Extended Diploma: Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications
Portfolio Required?
Submission of portfolio required
HECoS Code(s)
(CAH25-01) creative arts and design