Stage 1 will provide you with an exciting introduction to the history of architecture and cities, architectural design and technology, and urban planning with a focus on people and climate. 

Through a varied series of design projects, workshops and visits, we'll introduce you to key design skills. You'll gain an understanding of scale and context and develop spatial imagination. You'll learn to communicate your ideas verbally and visually thanks to the varied input of design practitioners, artists and academics.

All modules in Stage 1 are compulsory and will invite you to explore the various fields that this programme offers.

Stage 2 is where you choose the direction of your degree.  

If you want to choose one of the accredited pathways/routes at the end of Stage 2, you'll need to choose the group of three required modules:

• Relational Mapping, Design and Representation
• Living Communally and
• Participation: Theories and Practices 

The design project in Relational Mapping will help you explore the scales of urban design and landscape architecture through an ecological lens.

Living Communally focuses on the architectural design of sustainable co-housing.

The interdisciplinary module Participation provides an introduction to participation concepts and methods, as well as an opportunity to design a participation project working with/alongside a community group representative.  

 Or, you can opt to build your own degree; choosing from a wide range of modules across subjects and interests such as design, urban planning, geography and sociology. 

Stage 3 is the culmination of the climate and socially engaged design practice ethos of the programme.  

At Stage 3 you'll undertake a dissertation on a topic related to your interest.  

This year offers a wide range of module options, from climate literacy to a live design project that allows you to put theory into practice by working with a local organisation or community group. 

If you studied the group of three required modules in Stage 2, you can now choose which of the accredited pathways/routes to pursue; Architecture, Urban Design or Landscape Architecture. 

Students taking the urban design pathway must opt for the approved modules during their studies, highlighted below: 

• Green Infrastructure for Well-being and Biodiversity
• Strategies into Action: Planning
• Alternative Practice: Co-producing Space
• Development Management 

Students taking the architecture pathway must opt for the approved modules during their studies, highlighted below: 

• Green Infrastructure for Well-being and Biodiversity
• Climate Literacy: Philosophies to Practice
• Architectural Technology 2: Construction in Detail
• Alternative Practice: Co-producing Space
• Construction, Energy and Professional Practice 

Students interested in landscape architecture are advised to choose the following modules: 

• Green Infrastructure for Well-being and Biodiversity
• Climate Literacy: Philosophies to Practice
• Landscape Architecture Studio 1: City as Landscape
• Landscape Architecture Studio 2: Materiality of Landscape