Departments

Urban and Regional Planning

Expected Outcomes

The detailed modules and expected competencies are an outcome of inputs from guidelines for the Town Planning profession by the South African Council for Town and Regional Planning (SACTRP).

The following critical skills are embedded and underpin all the critical outcomes:

• Problem definition, gathering information and proffering alternatives and collaborative problem solving.
• Written, oral and graphic communications.
• Understanding strategic and synoptic dimensions and the interconnections between different facets of planning.
• Aesthetic dimensions and design awareness.
• The use of information technology (CAD, GIS and the use of the Internet among others).

Furthermore, that the knowledge of a planner must encompass a sound theoretical and applied base of the following areas:

• The nature, purpose and method of planning.
• The environment and development.
• The political and institutional context of planning.

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning has taken into consideration and adopted the above SACTRP discussion guidelines in the new course modules presented in the following pages.