Graduate Certificate in Environmental Design (GC-ENVDES) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, students will have achieved the following learning outcomes:

• Assess the environmental performance in the built environment based on a thorough approach and an in-depth knowledge of underlying theory;
• Analyse and evaluate environmental performance in the built environment, across scales and disciplines;
• Design, plan and evaluate new developments or modification to existing buildings, neighbourhoods and/or cities in order to improve environmental performance;
• Critically examine environmental design literature and designs, across disciplines;
• Communicate environmental performance concepts and designs effectively across visual,oral, and written media.

Generic skills

Graduate attributes

The Graduate Certificate in Environmental Design enables students to become:

• Academically excellent, with in-depth knowledge of a specialist discipline of environmental design in the built environment, the capacity to solve environmental design problems, and remain self-directed in their learning in this field.
• Knowledgeable across disciplines and scales of the built environment, with a critical understanding of the multiple disciplines, built systems and natural systems that contribute to environmental practice and outcomes, and the ability to assess this knowledge in collaborative contexts.
• Leaders of environmental design, with excellent interpersonal, decision-making and communication skills, who are respectful of diversity in cultural experiences of environmental change, reflective on the own practice, and have a capacity to initiate positive change and advocate for built environments in symbiosis with the environment.