MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAM
- Field of study: 07.04.01 Architecture
- Profile (major): Architectural design of buildings and structures
- Degree certificate: Master's
- Duration of study: 2 years
- Complexity: 120 credit units
- Mode of study: Intramural
- Language of study: Russian
The program’s mission is to develop students' personal qualities, as well as the formation of universal, general professional and professional competencies in accordance with the requirements of the educational standard in the field of study 07.04.01 Architecture considering graduate’s professional activities as 10.008 Architect.
Objectives and outcomes
Students in the major learn:
- Graduates’ universal competencies:
- Systematic and critical thinking
- Development and implementation of projects
- Teamwork and leadership
- Communication
- Intercultural interaction
- Self-organization and self-development (including health care)
- Graduates’ general professional competencies:
- Be able to carry out an aesthetic assessment of the living environment based on the proper level of artistic culture and developed three-dimensional thinking
- Be able to independently present and defend design solutions in approving authorities using the latest technical means
- Be able to carry out all stages of complex analysis and summarize its results using scientific research methods
- Be able to create conceptual innovative solutions, carry out alternative search and select the optimal design solution based on scientific research
- Be able to organize design and scientific research processes, coordinate the actions of related structures to create a sustainable living environment
- Be able to apply methods for determining the technical parameters of designed objects, including using specialized application software packages
- Graduates’ professional competencies:
- Be able to participate in the development and defense of a conceptual architectural project
- Be able to participate in the preparation and defense of the architectural part of sections of project documentation, including the use of innovative methods and technologies of architectural design
- Be able to conduct complex applied and fundamental scientific research
- Be able to participate in the organization and coordination of work on the development of design documentation for capital construction projects
- Be able to participate in the creation and presentation of architectural projects to the academic and professional communities, the customer and the public and substantiation of the results of pre-design research
- Be able to manage and control the development of an information model of a capital construction project
Curriculum
The program includes a mandatory part and a part formed by the participants in educational relations. The volume of the mandatory part, excluding the volume of the state final certification, is at least 20% of the total volume of the program in the field of study 07.04.01 Architecture.
The volume of the program implemented in one academic year is no more than 70 ECTS regardless of the mode of study, the educational technologies used, the implementation of the program using a network form, the implementation of the program according to an individual curriculum (with the exception of accelerated education), and in case of accelerated education - no more than 80 ECTS.
In accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education, the structure of the master’s program in the field of study 07.04.01 Architecture includes the following blocks:
- Block 1 “Disciplines (modules)”;
- Block 2 “Practice”;
- Block 3 “State final certification”.
Careers
Professional standards correlated with the federal state educational standard in the field of study 07.04.01 Architecture.
| PS code | PS code and name | Job description |
| 10 Architecture, engineering, geodesy, topography and design | 10.008 Architect |
C/01.7 Management of design and survey work, including the provision of expert advisory services at the pre-project stage of design of a capital construction project
C/02.7 Management of design work, including organization and general coordination of work on the development of a preliminary design, design and working documentation for capital construction projects C/03.7 Preparation and defense of design documentation for capital construction projects |
Main tasks of professional activity of graduates
| Area of professional activity | Types of professional tasks | Professional tasks | Objects of professional activity (or areas of knowledge) |
| 10 Architecture, engineering, geodesy, topography and design | creative | Development and defense of an architectural conceptual design based on scientific research | artificial material-spatial environment of human life and society with its components (populated areas, urban environment, buildings, structures and their complexes with life support systems, security, landscapes). Also, the professional activities of graduates can be focused on areas of knowledge: theory and history of architecture |
| 10 Architecture, engineering, geodesy, topography and design | design and technological | Preparation and defense of the architectural section of design (and working) documentation using innovative solutions based on scientific research | artificial material-spatial environment of human life and society with its components (populated areas, urban environment, buildings, structures and their complexes with life support systems, security, landscapes). Also, the professional activities of graduates can be focused on areas of knowledge: theory and history of architecture |
| 10 Architecture, engineering, geodesy, topography and design | research | Conducting applied and fundamental scientific research | artificial material-spatial environment of human life and society with its components (populated areas, urban environment, buildings, structures and their complexes with life support systems, security, landscapes). Also, the professional activities of graduates can be focused on areas of knowledge: theory and history of architecture |
| 10 Architecture, engineering, geodesy, topography and design | organizational and managerial | Organization and coordination of work on the development of design documentation for capital construction projects | artificial material-spatial environment of human life and society with its components (populated areas, urban environment, buildings, structures and their complexes with life support systems, security, landscapes). Also, the professional activities of graduates can be focused on areas of knowledge: theory and history of architecture |