Pg Dip in Professional Practice & Management in Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 3) Programme Director: Professor Susan Ware
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2017
The Professional Studies team aim to educate and equip a generation of architects to practice in an increasingly diverse and challenging environment. We do this by providing teaching and learning that encourage students to develop skills beyond those required by basic professional criteria through reflection, appraisal, critical enquiry and research. We ask students to examine the role of the architect in the changing global construction industry to examine the effect of politics and economics on the design and procurement of the built environment in future practice. In addition, we encourage students to explore an entrepreneurial approach to using their practice and business management skills in an increasingly competitive professional environment. The programme provides the students with the skills, knowledge, ability, judgment and integrity to be competent to practice and register as an architect through ARB and obtain Chartered Membership of the RIBA. The RIBA and ARB professional criteria are used as a basis to establish evidence of candidates’ fitness to practice, threshold of competence (in terms of knowledge and ability) and professionalism (in terms of conduct and responsibility). However, the demanding programme aims to extend the students’ learning well beyond the minimum required for professional registration. The school draws extensively from longstanding connections with practice and the construction industry to deliver teaching and learning at the forefront of current practice The flexible programme can be taken over 12, 18 or 24 months and in addition it is anticipated that in 2018 we will be offering a six-month fast track option. The programme, which commences in January, is delivered through a comprehensive series of 55 lectures given by experts from practice and from within the Faculty. The structure allows for a diversity of delivery and assessment methods replicating real-life scenarios, roles and responsibilities from practice. The final submission comprises the case study, personal evaluation and professional experience record, and is supported by a team of tutors through a series of one-to-one tutorials. In addition, the professional studies team provide a Year Out Programme and range of CPD short courses and other practice/ registration-orientated courses.
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