Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Instruct a question on architecture and urban planning
• Develop teamwork
• Consolidate their architectural and urban culture with a research approach
• Finalise architecture and urban planning projects adapted to a context
• Identify the different working hypotheses in relation to an architecture or town planning problem
• Identify and articulate the various components constituting an architectural, urban or territorial context
• Coordinate the various disciplines related to regional planning across the board
• Master the contemporary societal challenges of spatial planning
• Develop an identified spatial response
• Develop an architectural or urbanistic approach
• Demonstrate innovation and creativity in constantly evolving situations
• Adopt an applied scientific approach
• Develop a project methodology integrating the various constraints of regional planning
• Interact with all actors
• Contribute to the development of knowledge and its dissemination to the public or professionals
• Adopt a professional attitude
• Integrate and work in a team
• Integrate actors' different expectations related to architecture, urban planning and spatial planning
• Develop management and governance skills specific to architectural and urban processes
• Make choices
• Demonstrate reflexivity, openness and initiative
• Demonstrate ethical values
• Demonstrate independence of thought and action.

Learning Outcomes of UE

By producing a personal written work on a subject directly related to architecture, the student develops and illustrates his or her ability to prospect, analyse and summarise. 
 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The end-of-studies project (Master's thesis) is an important intellectual exercise in written expression.  It provides the basis for an introduction to methods of investigation and structuring of thought, deepening of knowledge, objective criticism and verification of ideas.  It should give students a taste for questioning and discovery, for reflection and clear formulation.  It also provides the basis for personal development of knowledge (learning to learn) and opens the door to objective and disinterested research.  Writing a Master's thesis also prepares you for the development of further research and for the comparison of ideas through systematic analysis. 

There are two different forms of dissertation:
1.1. The summary Master's thesis
This is a personal and original synthesis, in the form of an illustrated text, relating to an architectural or urban design issue.  The originality is not so much in the content as in the way the subject is approached.  It is required to provide an original perspective, a personal point of view and to develop the arguments of a demonstration.  The work contains mainly indirect references (ideas) and direct references (quotations) to existing works, both of which serve the purpose of demonstration. 
This definition therefore excludes purely descriptive work, relating to a single architect or a single work that is widely criticised in the literature.

1.2 "Master's thesis-project
This is a work that deals with a subject, firstly in a theoretical and analytical manner, and secondly in a prospective manner: either by proposing a project or scenarios. It is therefore a study of a particular problem illustrated through a project (or scenarios) developed for this purpose by the student. It can therefore in no way be the architectural project developed in the framework of the workshop.

Prior Experience

A-PRVT-804 - TFE - Etat d'avancement