Program Overview

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Urban Planning and Design with Foundation BA Honours

Overview

Our degree courses with Foundation year offer the opportunity to prepare you for advanced study before you progress onto a full honours degree at the University of Westminster.

Course Summary

The course aims to enable future urban planners to play a leading role in shaping climate-resilient, sustainable, healthy and inclusive cities. You’ll take an active role in shaping climate-resilient, inclusive and healthy cities.

This interdisciplinary course brings together urban design, architecture, landscape and environmental planning. You’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of urban planning while emphasising the role of urban design as an exploratory process to create climate-resilient, healthy and inclusive cities.

Course Structure

The following subjects are indicative of what you will study on this course.

• Foundation
• Year 1
• Year 2
• Placement Year
• Year 3

Foundation

The Foundation year offers four studio-based modules which include Recording Place, Making Practices, Reading Spaces and the Major Project. The latter is a design challenge that asks students to draw on skills and interests ignited by their earlier studio-based work and topics explored in the Foundation Pathway Modules.

• Critical Thinking in a Changing World
• Introduction to Academic Practice
• Major Project
• Making Practices
• Reading Spaces
• Recording Place

Year 1

• CC1: A History of Architecture
• City Design Studio 1
• Contemporary Issues in City Planning and Design
• Introduction to Design and Skills

Year 2

• CC2: Architectural History and Urbanism
• City Design Studio 2
• Economics of Cities
• Urban Heritage and Townscape Conservation

Placement Year

Between Years 2 and 3, you may undertake an optional year-long placement. If you take advantage of this option, you'll undertake an additional year-long Industry Placement Year module running parallel to your work placement, and your final degree award will be ‘BA Honours in Urban Planning and Design with Professional Experience’.

Year 3

• City Design Studio 3
• Research Report
• Resilient and Healthy Cities
• Work Experience and Professional Practice

Professional Accreditation

The course meets the requirements of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as a spatial degree and is the initial step to qualify as a Chartered Town Planner.

Entry Requirements

UK

• A levels – CCC (96 UCAS Tariff points)
• T levels – 96 UCAS Tariff points
• International Baccalaureate – 96 UCAS Tariff points from all components of the Diploma Programme. International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme will be considered on a case-by-case basis
• BTEC Extended Diploma – MMM
• BTEC Diploma – DD
• Access – 96 UCAS Tariff points from the Access course

In addition to one of the above, you should have:

• GCSE English Language grade 4/C - IB grade 4 Higher level, GCSE Maths grade 4/C - IB grade 4

If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.

International

• International Baccalaureate – 96 UCAS Tariff points from all components of the Diploma Programme. International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme will be considered on a case-by-case basis
• Other international qualifications – We accept a wide range of international high school level qualifications.
• International Foundation courses – We work in partnership with Kaplan International College London who provide the International Foundation Certificate at their College based in Liverpool Street.
• English language requirements – If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.

Fees and Funding

UK

• UK tuition fee: £9,535 (Price per academic year)

International

• International tuition fee: £17,600 (Price per academic year)

When you have enrolled with us, your annual tuition fees will remain the same throughout your studies with us. We do not increase International tuition fees.

Please note that if you defer your place, the first year’s tuition fees will be those of the academic year in which you enrol, which may be higher than the fee shown for this year.

Find out how we set our tuition fees.

Teaching and Assessment

Below you will find how learning time and assessment types are distributed on this course.

• Scheduled hours: examples include lectures, seminars, practical classes, workshops, supervised time in a studio
• Placement: placement hours normally include placement opportunities, but may also include live projects or virtual activity involving employers
• Independent study: non-scheduled time in which students are expected to study independently.

Year

Year

F

54% Scheduled hours 46% Independent study 0% Placement

Year

1

24% Scheduled hours 76% Independent study 0% Placement

Year

2

28% Scheduled hours 72% Independent study 0% Placement

Year

P

1% Scheduled hours 2% Independent study 97% Placement

Year

3

23% Scheduled hours 68% Independent study 9% Placement

Scheduled hours Independent study Placement

Supporting You

Our Student Hub is where you’ll find out about the services and support we offer, helping you get the best out of your time with us.

• Study support – workshops, 1-2-1 support and online resources to help improve your academic and research skills
• Personal tutors – support you in fulfilling your academic and personal potential
• Student advice team – provide specialist advice on a range of issues including funding, benefits and visas
• Extra-curricular activities – volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, student events and more

Visit our student hub

Course Location

In the heart of London, our Marylebone Campus is home to the Westminster Business School and our Architecture, Planning and Tourism courses. Specialist workshops, dedicated digital and architecture studios, and our extensive Marylebone Library offer students everything they need for academic success.

Marylebone Campus is opposite Baker Street tube station and within easy walking distance of Regent's Park and Marylebone High Street.

For more details, visit our Marylebone Campus page.

Related Courses

• Architecture and Environmental Design with Foundation BSc Honours
• Architecture with Foundation BA Honours