ARCT10090

Learning Outcomes:

1. Ability to write clearly, concisely and effectively about architecture.
2. Ability observe, assess and evaluate relevant information to make conclusions about buildings, cities and landscapes.
3. Understand build and appreciation of relationships and links between different cultures, including Global and non-Western architectural traditions.
4. Ultimately, to deepen understanding of the meaning and significance of architecture in ways that will inform individual design processes.

Indicative Module Content:

Core topics include:
Renaissance urbanism and perspectiv
Connections between East and West
East African traditions: Vernacular architecture and sustainability

UNESCO highlights a set of key competencies that support individuals in their development and support society in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UCD has adapted these competencies and is combining them with others to form a general framework of learning competencies. This module will help you develop the competencies below to the levels specified. 

The United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as core to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and UCD contributes in general to SDG 4 Quality Education. Further SDGs explored within this module if relevant are listed below. A scale of 1 - 5 indicates the extent to which the SDG is covered.


 

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Weekly lectures
Reading and critically summarising readings
Building Observation
Critical Writing
Building Research

This module emphasises the development of critical, independent thinking in the undergraduate curriculum.

AI- generated content is often factually inaccurate, out-of-date, and includes false or fabricated sources, citations and references. This will be covered in class to clarify the issue and answer questions.

In short: If you include factually inaccurate material and/or fabricated citations in your assessments, you will be marked down for inaccurate content, which may result in a fail grade for your essay. An important caveat: some content generated by AI tools makes use of other people’s ideas without referencing them, which is a form of plagiarism. If you submit AI-generated content that includes unreferenced or improperly referenced material you may be in breach of the UCD Student Plagiarism Policy.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

As part of UCD's student support, under the Additional Consideration policy, extensions may be available for the following assessments in the module: Assignment (including essay/poster), Portfolio, Reflective Assignment, Report(s), and Individual Project.

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

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