Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
Design landscape architectural interventions at any required scale and in any context through balanced application of creative and scientific methods and processes of inquiry based design (research by design).
Undertake a critical contextual study identifying and evaluating appropriate design informants in a rigorous and where appropriate creative format.
Understand a wide variety of landscape architectural planning and design methods, processes and techniques, from which to independently design processes of inquiry for critical application to landscape problems and opportunities.
Gather, analyse and interpret appropriate objective and subjective contextual information in a critical, rigorous and reflective manner for the creative and strategic translation into generators for determining intervention.
Understand sustainability in a broad sense with regard to the relation to landscape, and how to develop rigorous and where appropriate creative sustainable solutions.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
Demonstrate knowledge of the major paradigms in landscape architectural design and planning approaches through the ages and be able to engage in critical evaluation and reflection thereof.
Understand and discuss landscape architectural design as a reflection of culture.
Identify theoretical trends in landscape architecture.
Formulate an appropriate theoretical position and framework for guiding design interventions.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
Study a range of professional and academic discourses and their representation and communication techniques in order to propose and defend various aspects of the landscape architectural planning and design discourse to various audiences.
Develop the ability to undertake landscape inquiry through various representational techniques.
Understand the subjectivity of the representation of landscape and be able to critically evaluate various forms of representation acknowledging their objectivity.
Design a representation of aspects of landscape architecture through the creative application of various digital, model and hand drawn techniques, and in combination.
Use of various digital techniques and software for the production of professional representations.
Document a landscape architectural design in a professionally edited document, capturing a design argument (with a balance of text and imagery).
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
Operate independently with regard to sustaining independent and effective learning and to take full responsibility for his / her work ethic (sustaining efficiency, productivity).
Demonstrate proficiency in engaging with the implications of the physical making of the designed landscape throughout the design process.
Undertake technological inquiry through design.
Produce a set of construction drawings with associated specifications and bill of quantities for a typical landscape architectural project.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
Demonstrate knowledge of the environmental planning policies, procedures and processes governing practice in the environmental planning field (such as EIA's and public participation in environmental governance).
Understand the landscape architectural regulatory framework governing practice in South Africa (SACLAP) and its implications for the practitioner.
Understand the various aspects characterising the nature of the practice of landscape architecture (office management, organisation, project management, tender documents, contract administration etc.).
Integrated Assessment:
Assessment is based on project products (graphic, written and verbal). The theory courses are concerned with procedural and substantive theory and are continuously assessed.
Various methods of assessment are used to measure and record the progress of leaners through the year. These primarily include the examination of term or minor assignment papers and project documents submitted in response to topics or project briefs specified for each of the courses.
In certain project-based courses, audio-visual presentations are also used to assess learner progress in work undertaken by both groups and individual learners. In general, however, documents are submitted in addition to any such presentations.
Studio work:
Regular sessions are undertaken in a group to assess the learners' performance. If concerns are identified, then the learners are immediately notified. The final product is a series of drawings presented verbally by a learner to an examination panel. This forms the final assessment of the learner's performance.
Contemporary theories and Landscape Research Methodology:
Leaner's performance is monitored through presentations and seminars they present throughout the semester. These are accompanied by written submissions which the lecturer evaluates and returns to the learners with feedback.
Detail Landscape Design & Documentation:
Minor and major assignments are given throughout the semester, which have drawings as the product. These are evaluated immediately if presented verbally or are returned to learners with feedback. |
