1997 QUT Handbook

■ PRP502 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN
EDUCATION SETTINGS
The financial aspect of managing an educational setting; various
financial management control problems; the basic accounting
principles and skills used in the recording and management
of school financial transactions; guidelines for the efficient
and effective use of limited school financial resources.
Courses: ED23, ED61
Credit Points: 12
■ PSB010 PLANNING/LANDSCAPE DESIGN 1
(a) Theory – Basic Principles of Design: design vocabulary,
design principles. Problem Solving: vocabulary, techniques.
(b) Studio – Projects to encourage an understanding of design:
seeing through use of line, form (including land form),
colour, texture, etc, using design principles (through exemplars),
thinking design (developing design through sequential
stages such as intentions, resources, and resolutions).
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ PSB011 PLANNING/LANDSCAPE DESIGN 2
(a) Theory – The Design Process and Objective Setting. Site
Planning: exploration of open space theory at regional and
local scales; definition of spatial characteristics by edges,
nodes, landmarks, districts, and paths; sense of place; structure
and form; legibility; imageability; etc; human responses
and expectations and their effects on site planning decisions.
Surveys and Samples: introduction to a range of survey techniques
for specific purposes; sampling requirements; communicating
the results. Values: the roles of community and personal
values in planning and design. (b) Studio – a number of
projects, including design and a discipline diary, requiring
increasing individual abilities in 3-dimensional design and its
communication. These projects will emphasise the process of
design: understanding the process, techniques of using the
process, and establishing and communicating objectives and
strategies. Small group work will be used as support.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: PSB010
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ PSB012 PLANNING/LANDSCAPE DESIGN 3
Site planning and problem-solving theory; studio exercises
developing the capacity to analyse the nature and use of spaces
and to understand the role of creative expression in design;
formal oral presentation techniques (informal and persuasive)
including meetings, conferences, interviews and speeches.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: PSB010, PSB011
Credit Points: 21 Contact Hours: 9 per week
■ PSB013 PLANNING/LANDSCAPE DESIGN 4
Site planning techniques. The studio exercises link work commenced
in site planning theory and site planning techniques;
integrates issues covered in PSB012 with the technical and
practical aspects of site planning and design.
Courses: BN30
Prerequisites: PSB010, PSB011, PSB012
Credit Points: 20 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PSB014 PLANNING/LANDSCAPE DESIGN 5
Confirms the student’s appreciation of the coherence of the
design process by a single integrated semester-long project.
Secondly, the exercise focuses on interdisciplinary skills by
undertaking joint work with the architecture students.
Courses: BN30
Prerequisites: PSB010, PSB011, PSB012, PSB013
Credit Points: 20 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PSB015 PLANNING/LANDSCAPE DESIGN 6
Expansion of students’ planning and design skills by increasing
the complexity and scale of projects and introducing problems
requiring knowledge and skills drawn from the human
environment, natural environment and technology study areas.
The three projects for the semester focus on the development
of a significant urban area.
Courses: BN30
Prerequisites: PSB010, PSB011, PSB012, PSB013, PSB014
Credit Points: 20 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PSB018 LAND USE GENERATION
The evolution of Western cities. Order and diversity in the organisation
of modern land uses. Values, activities and land uses.
Characteristics of major human activities: shelter, work, movement,
learning, recreation, exchange. Changing influences on
contemporary settlements and emergent settlement forms.
Courses: BN30, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB019 PLANTING DESIGN
Design characteristics and criteria. Use of plants as structural
and design elements within landscape principles to planting
design; scale; design for change, growth, replacement and
maintenance. Planting design in schemes such as streets, highways,
parks, urban forecourts and interior plantscapes, gardens
and broad scale regeneration and stabilisation.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: PSB057
Credit Points: 3 Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ PSB020 LAND USE POLICIES
Review of the government structure as applied to urban areas
and regions. The levels of urban planning. How urban policies
are made. Organisations as policy makers and policy implementors.
Areas of conflict and their resolution. The various levels
and types of land use planning. Major land uses and activities;
work, housing, recreation, transport and welfare.
Courses: BN30, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB018
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB021 CONSERVATION THEORY
Introduction to the concepts of conservation and preservation.
The structure of conservation legislation and responsibility in
Australia. ICOMOS and the Burra charter. The particular requirements
of places, landscapes and precincts in mixed or
public ownership. Application of conservation concepts and
their use in the National Listings process.
Courses: BN30, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 2 Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ PSB030 INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFESSIONS
The concept of professionalism and contemporary social expectations
of the design professions; attitudes and roles within
current planning and design issues. Roles and employment
niches. Organisation and activities of the professional organisations.
Powers, responsibilities, and activities of landscape
architects, planners, and urban designers in the different forms
of private and public employment. Future directions and potential
work areas and practices. Introduction to the role and
importance of CVs and portfolios.
Courses: BN30
Credit Points: 6 (1st year BN30 students); 3 (2nd year BN30
students)
Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ PSB032 ISSUES & ETHICS
Case studies of successful solutions to environmental problems
(e.g. Oregon, London, South Australia). Implications of major
environmental problems and environmental awareness for urban
form and policies. Environmental impacts of technological
change. Contrasting attitudes towards conservation of natural,
rural and urban environments. Concept of stewardship.
Courses: BN30, PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: Completion of years 1 and 2
Credit Points: 2 Contact Hours: 1 per week
■ PSB040 GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
A practice-based program with specialised, formal lecture
inputs related to the development of methodologies. The program
concentrates on the achievement of a professional standard
in basic techniques of production documentation.
Courses: BN30 Prerequisites: PSB084, PSB085
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB041 REPORT PREPARATION
Formal writing techniques, including reports, instructions,
proposals, specifications, correspondence and essays. Report
writing. Structure and content of reports. Summaries and subdivision
of materials. Precis. Use of tables, charts, and illus-
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