Course Title: Planning With Communities
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Planning With Communities
Credit Points: 12.00
Course Coordinator: Benno Engels
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925
Course Coordinator Email: benno.engels@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: 8.11
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
No pre-requisites. Students who have previously completed ENVI1103 - Social Planning should not enrol in ARCH3342.
Course Description
Working with communities and being aware of community interests is central to spatial and social planning. Such engagement includes formalised techniques and approaches, but also planned interventions that integrate social, cultural, spatial and environmental contexts. In this course you will explore how to interpret social contexts and their dynamics, the basis of community engagement in planning practice, as well as the application of specific techniques for working with communities on spatial planning issues that recognise diverse needs and interests.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
In this course you will develop the following Program Learning Outcomes:
PLO1: Demonstrate creativity, critical thinking and innovation when identifying and solving urban and regional problems in diverse contexts and assessing implications of decisions and actions
PLO4: Communicate ideas using diverse formats and strategies to academic and professional audiences within and external to the discipline of urban and regional planning.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
1. Critically discuss engaging communities in urban and regional planning processes and the historical and contemporary perspectives of this approach;
2. Identify key theoretical and conceptual approaches to working with communities in urban and regional planning;
3. Apply and critique established and emerging techniques and examples of engagement with communities in significant contemporary planning issues and processes;
4. Collect data from a variety of sources and analyse it from a community planning perspective.
Overview of Learning Activities
You will be actively engaged in learning that involves a range of face to face and online activities such as lectures, tutorials, group and class discussion, readings, field trips, group activities and individual research.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.
Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Reading analysis and presentation, 25%, CLO1, CLO2 and CLO3
Assessment Task 2: Data collection and analysis, 1,500 words, 30%, CLO1, CLO3 and CLO4
Assessment Task 3: Data reporting and evaluation, 2,000 words, 45%, CLO1, CLO2, CLO3 and CLO4
Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.
If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.