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12 803 Diploma Landscape Architecture
Admission to AHO, and successful completion of 90 ECTS master level studies, including the course 60 701 Pre-diploma for urbanism and landscape architecture.
The diploma semester at AHO is an independent research and design task on a theme chosen by the student. In consultation with a supervisor, the student is to produce a complete work of exceptional quality contributing to the discipline’s discourse.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the theoretical and policy-related elements with relevance to the field of research and practice within the discipline.
- Knowledge of methods, tools and media inherent to urban and landscape design.
- An awareness of landscape and urban design’s historical, societal and theoretical background and context.
Skills
- An ability to undertake an independent and responsible project development.
- Ability to conceive of, conceptualize and design a specific project related to a specific situation or problem.
- An ability to employ the range of knowledge within the discipline in the specific diploma research and design.
- An ability to communicate design ideas and results to professionals and laypersons.
General competence
- An understanding of the given natural, social, cultural and technological conditions that contribute to inform urban design and landscape architecture work.
- Ability to see the particular approaches and methods of the discipline in relation to society and contemporary landscape situations.
The diploma semester is an independent study whose methods and topics are to be outlined in an approved pre-diploma brief.
The diploma semester starts of with an information meeting where both administrative and academic staff is present. Main source of information and updates during the semester is Moodle, and as a diploma student you are obligated to familiarize yourself with the AHO's diploma regulations. The regulations outlines the framework of the diploma semester, and describes details concerning submission, reviews and assessment.
Students are recommended to participate on the two interim presentations.
A diploma project may be withdrawn from examination by December 1st (Fall semester) and May 1st (Spring semester).
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project assignment | Individual | Pass / fail | Report and presentation of diploma project. The diploma project is assessed and evaluated by external censors. The diploma project should be evaluated on the terms, problematics and scope that the students themselves have defined in their project and in relation to the criteria given by the examiner´s guide to diploma evaluation and the required learning outcome. |