Module ARCH52615: Building Survey

Department: Archaeology

ARCH52615: Building Survey

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• To equip students with the nexessary theoretical knowledge and practical experience to conduct surveys of buildings and produce 2- and 3-dimensional representations of the results

Content

Learning Outcomes

• Students will have learned: Vector methods of recording three-dimensional structures
• Production of three-dimensional models
• Photographic techniques of recording and modelling
• An appreciation of recording and interpreting historic buildings

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Lectures, Problems of complexity in building recording; Laser techniques of measurement; Photographic techniques
• Practicals, Processing 3D field records; Producing 3D models; Producing 3D models from photographs
• Fieldwork, Building recording using laser instruments; Photographic recording of a building

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University