Unit Synopsis
This unit provides a broad and coherent study of urban design with some depth in specialist areas. These studies will develop your creative skills and critical judgement of urban design issues that are essential in professional practice, thus necessary content in the Bachelor of Building Design course. Topics review and deepen your existing knowledge of sustainable communities, environmental issues, and the movement of pedestrians and traffic in urban development. Specialist focus on heritage, diverse cultures, urban poverty, human behaviour, and emergency management in urban locations will be introduced. These studies and assessment tasks will develop skills in the exercise of critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving problems. You will undertake teamwork to collaboratively and responsibly evaluate strategies in urban design.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisites: BLAR11045 and BLAR12036
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 3 - 2026 Profile
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 25% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 60% |
| 3. Online Test | 15% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
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Term 3 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 18.75% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Student Unit and Teacher Evaluation (SUTE)
The assessment and classes are interesting and challenging.
The assessment and classes will continue to be designed similarly.
The classes and assessment revolved around a real world project in a similar style to the previous year.
Source: Lecturer comment
Students prepare to work in a professional team work environment in this unit.
Students must be prepared to work collaboratively and commit to regularly interacting with members of their team via Zoom and Teams in this unit.
Students were required to meet regularly and collaborate online with each other via Zoom and Teams as part of he assessment.
Source: Student Feedback
Students reported that collaborating within the team using the online tools provided worked very well.
Students will continue to be provided with a Teams channel and Zoom link specific to their team to support sharing of plans, research and documents and communication with other members of the team.
In Progress
Source: Student feedback
Developing a large site as a team is a good challenge and prepares for work in the industry as a professional Building Designer.
Students will continue to work in teams on the development of large sites to prepare for work as industry professionals.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Analyse heritage and environmental issues in urban development
- Reflect on and propose creative strategies to accommodate the diversity of human behaviour in the design of public urban spaces
- Compare and modify movement of pedestrians and traffic within urban design
- Adapt knowledge and skills to include diverse cultural needs and sustainable communities in urban design
- Participate effectively in collaborative team activities.
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Online Test | • | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Team Work | • | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | • | • |
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | ||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • | |
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