Course level

Postgraduate Coursework

Faculty

Engineering, Architecture & Information Technology

School

Architecture, Design, Planning

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Attendance mode

In Person

Class hours

General contact hours 3 Hours/ Week

Restricted

MArch & MUrbDevDes students only.

Assessment methods

Cumulative Research Project

Final Research Project

Course enquiries

Dr Kelly Greenop (k.greenop1@uq.edu.au), Professor John Macarthur (j.macarthur@uq.edu.au)

Study Abroad

This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.

Current course offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 1, 2024 (19/02/2024 - 15/06/2024) St Lucia In Person Course Profile

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Course description

This course focuses on the uses and understanding of built environments constructed in the past, how we can learn from them and manage their on-going lives. The course introduces theoretical and methodological issues of historiography such as forms of analysis, argument and evidence; and research practices such archival research and oral history; the collecting and maintaining of archives of architecture; and Digital Humanities techniques such as 3-d scanning, data analysis, and visualisation. The course includes a critical understanding of the principles and statutory regulation of cultural heritage. Students will employ the learning in a researching, documenting and analysing a building, persons or institutions, or ideas

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 1, 2023 (20/02/2023 - 17/06/2023) St Lucia In Person Course Profile