Postgraduate Certificate in Architectural History

1.

• (a) The course will consist of lectures, classes and classescollection visits on architectural history and on site evaluation and survey. The course maywill be taken on a part-time basis over a one-year period.

• (b) The course will consist of three taught units, two of which will be on architectural history and one of which will be on site evaluation and survey.

2. Every candidate will be required to satisfy the examiners in the following portfolio of written work:

• (a) three essays or projects linked to unit one of the schedule below, each of which shall not exceed 1,500 words in length;

• (b) two essays linked to unit two of the schedule below, each of which shall not exceed 2,000 words in length;

• (c) a workbook linked to unit three of the schedule below;

• (d) a dissertation which shall not exceed 8,000 words in length on a topic selected by the candidate in consultation with the supervisor and agreed by any two of the examiners.

• The assessments under (a)–(c) and the dissertation under (d) will be uploaded to the University approved online assessment platform by the deadline and in the format given in the course handbook. 

3. Candidates may be expected to attend a viva voce examination at the end of the course of studies at the discretion of the examiners.

Schedule

• Unit One

• Historical Studies I: Settlement, Landscape and Medieval Buildings

• Unit Two

• Historical Studies II: Post-MedievalModern Buildings

• Unit Three

• Site Evaluation and Survey: Local Historic Building Survey