Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Planning With Communities

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
ARCH3342	City Campus	Undergraduate	365H Global, Urban and Social Studies	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2024

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: Tutorial Engagement, 20%, CLO1, CLO2 and CLO3
Assessment Task 2: Reflective Skills Report, 2,000 words, 40%, CLO1, CLO3 and CLO4
Assessment Task 3: Research Field Study Report, 2,000 words, 40%, 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.