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Spatial Planning Studies – (Grad.Cert.)
Oxford Brookes University
Department of Planning
| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 2,886 - | ||
| Location: | Oxford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Oxford Brookes University
The Certificate in Spatial Planning Studies is a one-year part-time (one day per week) undergraduate level course. The purpose is twofold.
Firstly, the certificate offers an opportunity for people with no formal planning education to study key areas of contemporary planning in the context of a higher education teaching and learning environment.
Secondly, the course provides an access route to the Department of Planning's RTPI and RICS accredited MSc in Spatial Planning for students who do not have the normal educational qualifications necessary for entry onto the course.
The overall aims and objectives of the course are to provide students with a general, yet critical, understanding of the planning process and some of the key issues and themes in contemporary spatial planning.
Why Brookes?
For over 40 years Oxford Brookes has been one of the leading providers of planning education and the Department of Planning remains one of the largest planning 'schools' in Europe. With a complement of over 60 teaching, administrative, technical and research staff, the department performs a leading role in research and consultancy, with clients and projects covering subjects from local concerns to multi-national organisations, government and industry. This research feeds directly into the teaching of the Certificate in Spatial Planning Studies and the Department's students have the opportunity to learn directly from the most current areas of practice.
The Certificate in Spatial Planning studies is a part time course and Oxford, with its excellent transport links to all regions of the UK, is a particularly convenient place to study for part time students on day release from work.
Career prospects
The Certificate in Spatial Planning Studies provides an entry qualification for the MSc Spatial Planning. The MSc Spatial Planning is accredited by both the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. This dual accreditation makes MSc Spatial Planning graduates attractive to both the public and private sectors of planning and realted built environment employers.
The Certificate in Spatial Planning Studies, as a stand alone qualification, can also help to improve internal progression and promotion prospects within organisations.
Contents
The course comprises four modules.
In Semester 1 you would complete Introduction to Spatial Planning and Transport and Society.
In Semester 2 you would complete Environmental Sustainability and an Independent Study in Planning.
These modules have been carefully chosen to provide a balance of basic and advanced modules, and to offer you the opportunity to study basic themes in spatial planning as well as some specific areas such as transport and community planning.
Introduction to Spatial Planning provides an overall introduction to the discipline of planning. In the course you learn the main purposes of land use planning in general and the characteristics of the UK planning system in particular. The module provides the overall context and overall framework in which planning takes place.
Transport and Society provides an opportunity to study this key issue in contemporary planning and provides students with a critical understanding of the economic, social and political contribution of transport in the UK and Europe. The module explores the development of transport policy from a historical perspective and explores the concept of accessibility and the importance of travel behaviour.
Environmental Sustainability explores the key planning function of facilitating sustainable development. The module introduces students to the concept of sustainable development, and examines how issues of sustainability affect the UK's built and natural environment through arrangements for infrastructure and resource use.
The Independent Study in Planning allows you to research and report on an area of planning that is of most interest to you. Through directed research and study you will produce an extended essay or report that will deal in depth with the chosen topic. The detailed content and focus of this work will be agreed in advance with a personal supervisor. The Independent Study in Planning allows you to develop skills in independent learning in preparation for similar work that you will be doing on the MSc Spatial Planning course.
For the award of Certificate in Spatial Planning Studies and in order to progress to the MSc Spatial Planning course you are required to complete these four undergraduate modules at a standard of 50% pass mark (the normal undergraduate pass grade is 40%).
These modules are always subject to review and may be subject to change for 2012 entry. However any replacement modules would cover the general content of the modules outlined above.
Teaching, learning and assessment
Learning methods include lectures, directed reading, workshops, seminars, and practical and project work. Each course module is assessed individually, generally on the quality of written or design work, and to some extent on verbal presentations. Assessment methods may include essays, seminar papers, formal written examinations, in-class tests, project work, design and verbal presentations, workshops, simulations and practical exercises.
Oxford Brookes' undergraduate courses are broken down into equal-sized units of study called modules, self-contained in teaching, learning and assessment. The Certificate in Spatial Planning Studies modules are one semester (15 weeks) long and carry a single credit. The course is made up of four single credits and each module requires about 150 hours of study over the 15 weeks - including around 36 hours of staff contact time per module. Formal teaching takes place over the first 12 weeks, with the last weeks available for examinations if these are part of the module assessment.
As a Certificate in Spatial Planning Studies student you follow two modules per semester, each of which is taught on the same day so students need to be at Oxford Brookes one day per week. Currently teaching takes place on Thursdays.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Normal entry to the Certificate in Spatial Planning Studies requires:
* GCSE, O-level or equivalent in maths and English; and
* at least 3 years' experience of working within the field of planning in an advanced technical or administration post*; and
* applicants will be expected to be over the age of 21.
* The University's standard English language requirements for overseas students.
* Applicants who have 2 years' work experience in planning at the commencement of their studies and have at least one A-level at grade C or above will also be considered
Applicants for the MSc in Spatial Planning who have been rejected because their first degree did not meet the required standard will be reconsidered for entry onto the master's programme if they complete the certificate course to the required standard.
note, this course is not available to students classified as International for fees purposes.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Professional accreditation
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