Urbanism III - Theory
Students are required to register for the course in both the CTU KOS and the Moodle system under the name of the course. Graded assessment is awarded for the quality of both assigned tasks: presentations and submitted seminar work as well as for student activity during seminars, positive attitude, meeting the submission deadline and attendance.
Through the seminary paper, the students will perfect their skills of architect: learn to observe, document, analyse and interpret a specific urban problem, theory, experience of own choice or any of the topics discussed in the lectures, interconnect multiple sources of information and re-interpret them in a way that is revealing and useful for working as an architect.
Task 1/ oral group presentation of the analysis of the text - For Task 1/ each group of approx. 4 students for each of the four thematic blocks of the seminar chooses one text from approx. 24 recommended theoretical texts and prepares an analysis and 10 min. text presentation.
Task 2/ written independent work on a chosen topic - For Task 2/ each student individually chooses one of the topics A or B, which he develops through his own research, analysis of related information and data, then connects with his own opinion and interprets in the form of a continuous text of cca 1000 words, supplemented with pictorial documentation of the topic, sources and citations.
- Topic A: own topic, specific urban problem, theory, experience
- Topic B: any of the topics, theories and concepts discussed in the lectures