Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) (Urban and Regional Planning)

In your first year you'll complete units that will lay the foundations for the remainder of your course. You'll explore the built environment and receive an introduction to planning and design urban development law urban analysis and land-use planning. You'll also develop your skills in negotiation and conflict resolution.

In your second year you'll continue to build skills in site planning stakeholder engagement transport planning and planning law as well as engaging in units from your selected second major or set of minors. From there you'll have the opportunity to refine your understanding of urban design and property development and use your cumulative knowledge to undertake environmental planning activities. You'll also reflect on your work placement and consolidate your research skills.

In your final year you'll explore advanced concepts of urban and regional planning as well as planning theory and ethics. You'll engage in real-world planning projects in studio and research environments and potentially undertake an internship with a member of Queensland's Parliament. Your studies will culminate in a major research project with a faculty mentor that showcases your career-ready skills.

You are required to undertake 30 days of approved urban and regional planning work experience as part of your Work Integrated Learning core unit.

* Source: Graduate Outcomes Survey 2019-2021 / Australian Taxation Office 2017-18 financial year / Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) / ComparED compared.edu.au

As an urban and regional planner you'll design and manage the use of land and natural resources to meet society's future needs in a sustainable way. Working with elected representatives communities and other clients you'll prepare and administer physical schemes that create better places and lives for neighbourhoods cities and regions. You'll also plan large-scale projects such as new cities suburbs ports recreational and industrial areas and transport routes consulting widely among local communities and colleagues in related fields.

You may enjoy a career in urban and regional planning if you're interested in social economic environmental and cultural issues; art and design; using your imagination; and being creative. With a flexible course structure you'll have the opportunity to enhance your broad appreciation of fields related to urban and regional planning such as urban design property economics architecture landscape architecture law or business management.

As an urban and regional planner you'll have employment opportunities locally and internationally in state and local government departments and agencies large multi-stranded development companies and professional planning consultancies. Career choices include urban design transport planning development assessment plan preparation for housing and industrial areas open space and recreational planning environmental protection and social and economic development.

This course has accreditation from the Planning Institute of Australia.

• Development manager
• Environmental planner
• Policy officer
• Sustainability design consultant
• Transport planner
• Urban designer
• Urban and regional planner
• Urban planner

Your QUT Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) (Urban and Regional Planning) degree consists of 384 credit points (32 units) arranged as follows:

a) 72 credit points (6 units) of urban development core units which includes a Professional Practice unit that requires completion of workplace learning

b) 216 credit points (18 units) of urban and regional planning discipline units

c) 96 credit points of complementary studies comprising of either a second major (8 unit set) or two minors (4 unit set each).

These units will engage you in understanding urban development from a range of disciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives expose you to the various outcomes available for pursuing studies in this field and introduce the fundamental basis for policy and practice. Later core units together with the discipline specific units will progress your learning development through experiential and enquiry based learning in collaborative environments.

These units give you discipline level knowledge skills and application competencies from introductory through intermediate culminating with advanced graduate level units. They focus on developing your knowledge practice and higher-order thinking to an advanced level.

Complementary studies may be taken as a second major of 96 credit points or two minors of 48 credit points each. Experiential minors in work integrated learning as well as student exchange are also available.

A second major provides the opportunity for you to undertake significant studies in a second Urban Development discipline such as Property Economics Construction Management Architectural Studies Accountancy Applied Economics and Finance. Second majors are also designed to provide diverse professional skills and knowledge beyond the traditional reaches of the built environment curriculum and can offer a range of study options in other fields.

Minors will allow you undertake studies in a companion discipline. They are designed to provide you with introductory to intermediate level knowlege and skills in areas complementary to your studies. You can choose a minor from other built environment disciplines. There are also minors designed to distinguish students in the employment marketplace with complementary non-discipline' skills and competencies that you can choose from a range of inter- and intra-faculty disciplines.

The (UD01) Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) is located at Level 8 of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). Graduates may be eligible for discipline relevant masters and/or doctoral level programs.

Your QUT Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) (Urban and Regional Planning) degree consists of 384 credit points (32 units) arranged as follows:

a) 72 credit points (6 units) of Urban Development Core units which includes a Professional Practice unit that requires completion of workplace learning.

b) 216 credit points (18 units) of Urban and Regional Planning discipline units

c) 96 credit points of complementary studies comprising of either a Second Major (8 unit set) or two Minors (4 unit set each).

These units will engage you in understanding Urban Development from a range of disciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives expose you to the various outcomes available for pursuing studies in this field and introduce the fundamental basis for policy and practice. Later core units together with the discipline specific units will progress your learning development through experiential and enquiry based learning in collaborative environments.

These units give you discipline level knowledge skills and application competencies from introductory through intermediate culminating with advanced graduate level units. They focus on developing your knowledge practice and higher-order thinking to an advanced level.

Complementary studies may be taken as a Second Major of 96 credit points or two Minors of 48 credit points each. Experiential minors in Work Integrated Learning as well as student exchange are also available.

A second major provides the opportunity for you to undertake significant studies in a second Urban Development discipline such as Property Economics Construction Management Architectural Studies Accountancy Applied Economics and Finance. Second majors are also designed to provide diverse professional skills and knowledge beyond the traditional reaches of the built environment curriculum and can offer a range of study options in other fields.

Minors will allow you undertake studies in a companion discipline. They are designed to provide you with introductory to intermediate level knowlege and skills in areas complementary to your studies. You can choose a minor from other built environment disciplines. There are also minors designed to distinguish students in the employment marketplace with complementary 'non-discipline' skills and competencies that you can choose from a range of inter- and intra-faculty disciplines.

The (UD01) Bachelor of Urban Development (Honours) is located at Level 8 of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). Graduates may be eligible for discipline relevant Masters and/or Doctoral level programs.