Course

LAA233 Project Management

Credits (ECTS):7.5

Course responsible:Frode Degvold, Henrik Gay Berntsen

Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås

Teaching language:Norsk

Limits of class size:40

Course frequency:Yearly

Nominal workload:A total of 187,5 hours

Teaching and exam period:This course starts and ends in the fall semester

About this course

Through lectures, role play, individual tasks, and not least a week of work in a professional practice, the course concentrates on the different roles of landscape architects and landscape engineers in different stages of planning, design and building projects.

Learning outcome

Learning outcome

Students will gain knowledge of

  • Roles and duties in design- og construction projects
  • How to take care of and develop qualities in landscape, in the design phase, the construction phase and for maintenance.

Students will be able to:

  • Reflect on the complexity of the projects, and on requirements in professional life.
  • Reflect on challenges and experiences in the different roles and phases of a project.
  • Learning activities

    The learning activities provide an introduction to the methods and tools of the professions and require active student involvement. Students must:

    • participate in and take notes from excursions and lectures as part of their learning
    • acquire subject knowledge through self-study
    • practice problem-solving individually and in groups
    • present their own work
    • participate in joint discussions
    • find and arrange an internship
    • prepare thoroughly for the internship
    • write a comprehensive report from the internship
  • Teaching support
    Guidance is given in plenary and in groups
  • Prerequisites
    The first and second years for B-Li og equivalent must be completed. B-Li students who want an exchange must contact the study counselor in the spring of the first year
  • Recommended prerequisites
    LAA115 and LAA221 or similare
  • Assessment method
    One assignment.

  • Examiner scheme
    Sensor approves the design of exam assignment and the examiner supervision.
  • Mandatory activity
    Active participation in group work and a week\s practice or equivalent approved program. At least 80% attendance in the teaching and approved 100% of the course assignments.
  • Notes

    The course is under development. Adjustments may occur.

    If the course is not completed it has to be taken again fully.

    The student must pay for expenses for travel to one excursion in Oslo

    and expenses for travel to working place for one week practice.

  • Teaching hours
    25% (47 hours) are structured teaching (lectures, supervision, review in plenary, excursions) and 75% (140 hours) are self-study, problem solving and group work.
  • Preferential right
    B-LI. In case of vacancy, M-LA students have priority.
  • Admission requirements
    General university admission certification