Университет Кардиффа, MA, Urban Design

The course is structured to provide a set of three lecture-based modules and three studio-based design modules, followed by a dissertation in the form of a research-based design project. The three lecture-based modules run in parallel with studio-based design projects which enable you to continually relate theory and practice.

Core modules

• Urban Design
• Thinkers Urban
• Design Foundation Research Methods and Techniques
• Development Management
• Autumn Studio
• Spring Studio
• Research Based Design Project

• A First or Second Class Honours degree, or equivalent, in an appropriate subject is usually required. Applications from those with degrees in design, architecture, planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering are welcomed
• IELTS total score 6.5 (no sub-score may be below 5.5) or the equivalent.

MA Urban Design programme is jointly delivered by the Welsh School of Architecture and the School of Geography and Planning. The goal of this programme is to enable practitioners and scholars to transform the field of urban design through critical thinking and creative practice.

Urban design is transdisciplinary, straddling professional fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and public policy, and also disciplines such as politics, economics, sociology and cultural studies. The programme fully embraces this transdisciplinarity through the theory, research training and design teaching it offers.

Why choose this course?

• Learn from academics in two Schools which are ranked among the top 50 in the world.
• The course is taught via lectures, workshops and design studios, by staff drawn from both the architecture and planning schools, who are leading experts in their fields. Design Tutors include leading practitioners who bring their experience of cutting edge practice to the core of design studio work.
• Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), allowing completion of the educational requirement for RICS membership.