132419

Professional Practice Studio

The Professional Practice Studio is designed to mobilise the student's prior learning and professional practice capacities in the context of evolving rationalities, crises and prospects of contemporary planning practice. The studio activities blend scholarship, employability, and being Te Tiriti-led with current and comparative planning debates and the role of planning to explore a selected studio theme. Independent projects are evolved through exchanging ideas, exploring possibilities, and evolving a shared responsibility for championing change within a community of practice.
Course code

Qualifications are made up of courses. Some universities call these papers. Each course is numbered using six digits.

132419
Level

The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is a 2, so it is a 200-level course (usually studied in the second year of full-time study).

400-level
Credits

Each course is worth a number of credits. You combine courses (credits) to meet the total number of credits needed for your qualification.

15
Subject
Resource and Environmental Planning

Learning outcomes

What you will learn. Knowledge, skills and attitudes you’ll be able to show as a result of successfully finishing this course.

  • 1 Demonstrate applied knowledge about the emerging and prospective rationalities of planning in the context of comparative regimes, the profession and prior learning.
  • 2 Differentiate and assess the current planning debates relevant to the studio theme and related issues in local and international planning contexts.
  • 3 Reflect on graduate planners' agency and relationship to continuous learning, the profession and wider communities of practice.
  • 4 Demonstrate conceptual and applied practices of key principles and methods of imagining, championing, collaborating and communicating change in different socio-political contexts.

Learning outcomes can change before the start of the semester you are studying the course in.

Assessments

Assessment Learning outcomes assessed Weighting
Written Assignment 1 3 4 20%
Written Assignment 1 2 4 25%
Oral/Performance/Presentation 1 4 25%
Written Assignment 1 2 3 4 30%

Assessment weightings can change up to the start of the semester the course is delivered in.

You may need to take more assessments depending on where, how, and when you choose to take this course.

Explanation of assessment types

Explanation of assessment types
Computer programmes
Computer animation and screening, design, programming, models and other computer work.
Creative compositions
Animations, films, models, textiles, websites, and other compositions.
Exam College or GRS-based (not centrally scheduled)
An exam scheduled by a college or the Graduate Research School (GRS). The exam could be online, oral, field, practical skills, written exams or another format.
Exam (centrally scheduled)
An exam scheduled by Assessment Services (centrally) – you’ll usually be told when and where the exam is through the student portal.
Oral or performance or presentation
Debates, demonstrations, exhibitions, interviews, oral proposals, role play, speech and other performances or presentations.
Participation
You may be assessed on your participation in activities such as online fora, laboratories, debates, tutorials, exercises, seminars, and so on.
Portfolio
Creative, learning, online, narrative, photographic, written, and other portfolios.
Practical or placement
Field trips, field work, placements, seminars, workshops, voluntary work, and other activities.
Simulation
Technology-based or experience-based simulations.
Test
Laboratory, online, multi-choice, short answer, spoken, and other tests – arranged by the school.
Written assignment
Essays, group or individual projects, proposals, reports, reviews, writing exercises, and other written assignments.

Textbooks needed

There are no set texts for this course.