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Postgraduate Handbook 2007-2008 (archived)

Module ARCH52615: Building Survey

Department: Archaeology

ARCH52615: Building Survey

Type Level Credits Availability Module Cap Location
Open 4 15 Available in 2007/2008 Durham

Pre-requisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combinations

  • 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

Subject-specific Knowledge
Subject-specific Skills
  • 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
Key Skills

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

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotal HoursAttendance Monitored
Lectures 3 one a week 1 3
Tutorials 2 fortnightly 1 2
Seminars 0
Practicals 3 1 per week 2:00 6
Fieldwork 2 fortnightly 2:00 4
Preparation & Reading 0
Other: 135
Total 150

Summative Assessment

ComponentComponent WeightingElementLength/DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Portfolio 100% Essay 2,000 words 50%
Report 10 pages max 50%

Formative Assessment

Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.