Course Overview - Urban Design & Planning (with Integrated Foundation & Professional Practice Years)
Our BSc Urban Design & Planning (with Integrated Foundation Year and Professional Practice Year) is a five year degree programme, including a foundation year to help develop your creativity before you embark on year one of a degree. Your fourth academic year would then include a year in industry placement.
Discover the role of the urban planner and designer and its impact on society and learn the advanced skills to become one on our new BSc (Hons) Urban Design & Planning degree course at UCA Canterbury.
On this course, you’ll learn spatial practices, and the value ...
Our BSc Urban Design & Planning (with Integrated Foundation Year and Professional Practice Year) is a five year degree programme, including a foundation year to help develop your creativity before you embark on year one of a degree. Your fourth academic year would then include a year in industry placement.<br/><br/>Discover the role of the urban planner and designer and its impact on society and learn the advanced skills to become one on our new BSc (Hons) Urban Design & Planning degree course at UCA Canterbury.<br/><br/>On this course, you’ll learn spatial practices, and the value that an Urban Designer can add to projects and the wider community. You’ll use Canterbury and the wider Kent landscape as a canvas from which to work, researching, designing, and examining the impact that your designs and plans would have upon it.<br/><br/>On campus, you’ll be able to take advantage of our extensive facilities, including forms of fabrication and testing, the latest scanning and VR technology, and a suite of traditional craft-based workshops, all of which will allow you to bring your design proposals to life. <br/><br/>To broaden your horizons, you’ll be guided by our team of academics and experience collaborative opportunities with students from across the university. You’ll also have the freedom to establish your own unique specialisms, such as advanced retrofit-based knowledge, while developing your own highly individualised design identity and style.