Urban design is widely acknowledged as an emerging profession. RMIT’s double degree is strategically positioned to catch the wave of interest in addressing the problems of our cities, extending skills traditionally associated with urban and regional planners and landscape architects in new and exciting areas.
The features of this double degree are:
1. Studios that provide you with an increasingly challenging set of forums within which you can test and integrate ideas by pinning up your designs and debating the strengths and weaknesses of your visions.
2. A series of professionally-orientated urban planning courses, including a work placement.
3. A set of technical skills-based courses, for example computer-aided design.
4. A set of wider philosophical courses that resonate with debates about social justice, sustainability and a sense of history.
5. A collection of electives giving you strategic choices within RMIT’s School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning; School of Architecture and Design; and the University more generally.
You will acquire capabilities such as:
1. A set of critical and analytical skills that can be applied at various spatial scales, from particular land-use plots to metropolitan areas as a whole.
2. The ability to communicate in multi-media, having sound written and oral skills, and the ability to actively listen and engage in debate and discussion in situations where there is no right technical answer.
3. The capacity to work collaboratively with other professionals who deal with the built environment or human services, as well as work with the community as represented by individual clients or social groups, including those associated with indigenous peoples and multicultural interests.
4. The capability to frame arguments in terms of the long-term view associated with sustainability, synthesising ecological, social and economic arguments.
Most commencing students will enrol online. If you are required to enrol online you need to log in to my RMIT and click on the link to Enrolment Online. You can enrol online at any time before the deadline in your offer letter from any computer with internet access.
If you need to enrol via the paper-based process your offer letter will tell you and you will enrol at your program information session.
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