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PLAN9063: Strategic Planning and Design
2024 unit information
The aim of PLAN9063 Strategic Planning and Design is to provide students with grounding in the core knowledge and skills needed to practice as a contemporary planner. A key emphasis in the unit is understanding the skills needed to undertake strategic planning at a range of levels (both process and content). Strategic planning in one form or other is a generic process that underpins much of the work that planners and urban designers are involved in at varying spatial levels. This course will provide students with the basic skills required to function as a planner and it will also act as an introduction to a number of other units in the program by highlighting the connection between the work of a planner and the need to understand a range of different knowledge and skill areas. Basic skills may include basic demographic analysis, graphic presentation, governance audits, consultation strategies and survey tools, economic analysis, and GIS. In addition, this Unit of Study will enable students to develop generic skills such as group discussion, productive group work and organisation, negotiation skills and information literacy skills. This is an introductory core unit for the Urban Planning degree, a specialisation unit for the Master of Urbanism and an elective for the Urban Design degree.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Urban and Regional Planning and Policy
| Code | PLAN9063 |
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| Academic unit | Urban and Regional Planning and Policy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an understanding of “strategic planning” at various scales
- LO2. identify and articulate the skills needed to undertake strategic planning and demonstrate developing skills
- LO3. demonstrate the ability to undertake critical analysis
- LO4. identify and review peer-reviewed literature and apply that to contemporary strategic planning considerations
- LO5. identify the main players in the planning process
- LO6. identify and articulate the strategic planning methods and impacts
- LO7. demonstrate an ability to work effectively in groups.
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