MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAM
- Field of study: 07.04.04 Urban planning
- Profile (major): Urban planning, planning of districts and rural settlements
- 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 07.04.04 Urban planning considering graduate’s professional activities as 10.006 Urban planner, 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:
10.006 Urban planner
- Be able to participate in the development of conceptual urban planning projects and works of urban art
- Be able to participate in the preparation and defense of urban planning documentation using innovative methods of urban design
- Be able to conduct complex applied and fundamental scientific research
- Be able to participate in the preparation and conduct of research, including the use of innovative methods and technologies of urban planning
- Be able to participate in the administration and coordination of scientific research
- Be able to participate in the development and presentation of urban planning projects to the academic and professional communities, the customer and the public and substantiate the results of pre-project 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 07.04.04 Urban planning.
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 07.04.04 Urban planning 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 07.04.04 Urban planning.
| PS code | PS code and name | Job description |
| 10 Architecture, engineering, geodesy, topography and design | 10.006 Urban planner |
B/01.7 Preparation of draft documents for territorial planning, urban zoning, urban planning standards and documentation on territory planning
B/02.7 Coordination and approval of draft territorial planning documents, urban planning zoning, urban planning standards and documentation on territory planning C/01.7 Planning and control of engineering surveys for the preparation of territory planning documentation C/02.7 Management of the preparation and monitoring of the implementation of territorial planning documents, urban zoning, urban planning standards and territorial planning documentation |
| 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 (project concept development) | Development of conceptual urban planning 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: the theory and history of urban planning and urban studies |
| 10 Architecture, engineering, geodesy, topography and design | design and technological (work documentation) | Compiling of a set of urban planning documentation in relation to a territorial object | 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 of urban planning and urban studies |
| 10 Architecture, engineering, geodesy, topography and design | research | Conducting research and surveys necessary for the development of urban planning documentation | 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 urban planning and urban studies |
| 10 Architecture, engineering, geodesy, topography and design | organizational and managerial | Organization of research and surveys necessary for the development of urban planning solutions | 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 |