Postgraduate courses
We offer a rich diversity of courses at postgraduate level. Our student population is drawn from a variety of countries and cultures worldwide, providing a vibrant learning experience for all.
MArchD - Applied Design in Architecture
Applied Design in Architecture (MArchD) at Oxford Brookes is for those who wish to become professionally qualified in the UK and provides ARB Part 2. It is also possible, through the Major Study design specialisation, to spend half of the course pursuing your own research and design programme.
The Advanced Architectural Design Module represents the core of the learning experience. Project-based learning is used in a studio environment to individually and collectively explore architectural design problems. The MArch programme concludes with the Dissertation Project in which individual students work with a supervisor on projects that have developed from the work of the design studio or appropriate Special Route.
MA / PGDip / PGCert - Development and Emergency Practice
The programme is offered at three levels: as postgraduate certificate (PG Cert), postgraduate diploma (PG Dip) and a masters degree (MA). Normally candidates enrol for the masters degree, but it is possible to enrol directly on the PG Cert or PG Dip, either on recommendation from the admissions tutor, or as a stopping point en route to the MA.
PGCert - Humanitarian Action and Conflict
Open to those with an undergraduate degree in any relevant discipline, and substantial and proven professional experience in the field of humanitarian action, or to those with no previous degree but extensive experience in humanitarian action or related fields.
PGCert - Shelter after Disaster
While shelter after disaster has been a recognised field of work for at least thirty years, the systems and approaches for successful shelter delivery are far from clear. With a bewildering range of actors and contested debate over the best approaches, achieving equitable, sustainable and effective shelter after disaster can be complex and too often goes wrong. To these ends the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice's (CENDEP) approach to shelter after disaster is to learn from practice about what works best.
MA / PGDip / PGCert - International Architectural Regeneration and Development
The course is offered at three levels: as a postgraduate certificate, a postgraduate diploma and a master's degree. Normally candidates enrol for the master's degree, but it is possible to enrol directly on the PGCert or PGDip, either on recommendation from the admissions tutor or as an exit point from the MA.
MSc / PGDip / PGCert - Sustainable Building: Performance and Design
A key aim of the programme is to promote an interdisciplinary and strategic approach to design that will enable professionals to integrate their skills and co-operate in achieving genuinely excellent environmental performance in buildings.
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