Plan de estudios

GENERAL AIMS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE DEGREE COURSE IN ARCHITECTURE

1 Ability to create architectural projects that meet both aesthetic and technical requirements.

2 Working knowledge of architectural history and theories, along with related arts, technology and human sciences.

3 Understanding of fine arts as an influence on the quality of architectural conception.

4 Working knowledge of urban planning, zoning and the techniques involved in the planning process.

5 Ability to understand the relationship between people and buildings and between the latter and their environment, along with the need to relate buildings and the spaces between them to human needs and scale.

6 Ability to understand the architectural profession and its function in society, particularly with regard to designing projects which take social factors into account.

7 Working knowledge of project research and preparation methods.

8 An understanding of building project problems associated with structural conception, construction and engineering.

9 Working knowledge of physical problems, various technologies, and building function, to ensure that buildings are comfortable and offer protection against the weather.

10 Ability to conceive buildings which will satisfy the requirements of their users, respecting the limits imposed by budgetary factors and construction regulations.

11 Working knowledge of industries, organisations, standards and procedures, in order to turn projects into buildings and use building plans in the planning process.

COMPETENCES

Basic Transversal Competences

• CB1:Habilidad para comprender. Que los estudiantes hayan demostrado poseer y comprender conocimientos en un área de estudio que parte de la base de la educación secundaria general, y se suele encontrar a un nivel que, si bien se apoya en libros de texto avanzados, incluye también algunos aspectos que implican conocimientos procedentes de la vanguardia de su campo de estudio.
• CB2:Habilidad para aplicar. Que los estudiantes sepan aplicar sus conocimientos a su trabajo o vocación de una forma profesional y posean las competencias que suelen demostrarse por medio de la elaboración y defensa de argumentos y la resolución de problemas dentro de su área de estudio.
• CB3:Habilidad para interpretar y emitir juicios. Que los estudiantes tengan la capacidad de reunir e interpretar datos relevantes (normalmente dentro de su área de estudio) para emitir juicios que incluyan una reflexión sobre temas relevantes de índole social, científica o ética.
• CB4:Habilidad para transmitir. Que los estudiantes puedan transmitir información, ideas, problemas y soluciones a un público tanto especializado como no especializado.
• CB5:De autonomía para aprendizajes futuros. Que los estudiantes hayan desarrollado aquellas habilidades de aprendizaje necesarias para emprender estudios posteriores con un alto grado de autonomía.

UA Basic Transversal Competences

• CGUA6:Ability to use a second language. Capacity to use the English language fluently to access technical information, respond to the needs of society and be self-sufficient when preparing for one's professional career.
• CGUA7:Capacity for expression. Capacity for oral and written expression.
• CGUA8:Capacity for scheduling and setting deadlines. Capacity to plan tasks and commit to fulfilling goals and deadlines.
• CGUA9:Capacity for group work. Capacity to perform well in collective and group work, sharing tasks and taking on roles.
• CGUA10:Capacity to deal with real situations in architecture. Capacity to face, plan and resolve real problems required by society in the field of architecture.
• CGUA11:Capacity to adapt to new concepts and methods. Capacity to learn and apply new concepts and methods in a self-sufficient and interdisciplinary manner.
• CGUA12:Capacity to adapt to new professional technological models. Capacity to assimilate and adapt to the permanent evolution of technology during professional career.
• CGUA13:Capacity to adopt the scientific method. Capacity to use the scientific method when considering and carrying out different tasks, in both one's academic and professional life.
• CGUA14:Capacity for self-criticism. Be self-critical enough to analyse and improve the quality of projects.

Inherent transversal competences:

Cognitive Instrumental

• CG15:Ability to analyse and synthesise. This is the ability to separate the parts of a research process and the ability to reconstruct the whole project from its parts.
• CG16:Ability to be self-critical. Capacity to systematise intellectually non-conformist attitudes.
• CG17:Ability to apply knowledge to practice. Ability to technify any conceptual discourse with processes that can be applied to reality.
• CG18:Habilidad para el razonamiento crítico. Capacidad de confrontar líneas argumentales diversas, sistematizando la duda sobre cualquier afirmación presentada.
• CG19:Ability for aesthetics and form. Capacity to take a critical position regarding objects of beauty.
• CG20:Habilidad para la elaboración del pensamiento abstracto. Habilidad para construir conceptos genéricos a partir de un conocimiento empírico.
• CG21:Capacity for imagination, fantasy and creativity. Ability to convert imaginative and creative situations into diagrams or maps for interaction. Capacity to understand the logic of fantasy, its resources and possibilities.
• CG22:Ability to handle complex information. Capacity to develop complex processes from situations of uncertainty.

Methodological Instrumental

• CG23:Ability to solve problems. Capacity to focus information and instruments for action on resolving previously diagnosed conflicts.
• CG24:Ability to make decisions. Capacity to understand the complexity of contexts where we make transformations and take a corresponding creative decision in a responsible manner.
• CG25:Ability to locate and set targets. Ability to select analysis procedures, detect peculiarities and identify critical situations.
• CG26:Ability to integrate different knowledge and disciplines. Capacity to understand the multiple nature of the problems faced and the ability to select and incorporate the most effective arguments.
• CG27:Understand different cultures and techniques. Capacity to understand culture as the vital substrate upon which we act and technique as the implementation of culture in effective, sustainable and operative tools.

Technological Instrumental

• CG28:Ability for spatial vision. Ability to understand and assimilate an object, process or space independently of prior visualisations as well as the capacity to generate new ones.
• CG29:Habilidad para la compresión numérica y la intuición mecánica. Habilidad para entender procesos numéricos en sistemas mecánicos y tecnológicos, adecuando el tiempo entre estudio teórico y el desarrollo práctico de los modelos.
• CG30:Ability to use information technologies. Capacity to understand the importance of managing information in the modern world and show consistent interest in the dynamics proposed by the ever-growing information technologies.

Linguistic Instrumental

• CG31:Capacity for graphic, oral and written communication. Ability to adjust the procedure of expression to goals that have been set and choose the correct way to of expressing ideas or processes in any of the possible modes.
• CG32:Ability to develop and express one's own ideas and discourses. Ability to generate records that can characterise an individual, differentiated language, even recycling known approaches and establishing new ones, while enabling the creation of a portfolio understood as the framework for searches and achievements that are worth making public.
• CG33:Capacity for spatial representation and graphic ideation. Capacity to understand and interpret an architectural process spatially and manage pictorial and plastic referents as support for ideation.
• CG34:Understand other languages. Capacity to understand that in our globalised world the context is only close in cultural terms and thus understand that a knowledge of other languages is the key to accessing other contexts.

Inherent transversal Competences:

Individual Interpersonal

• CG35:Act in accordance with our own motivations, values and opinions. Capacity to create and propose our own operative contexts on the basis of our special way of existing in the world, assuming our individual responsibilities for creating a better world.
• CG36:Ability to find and locate oneself in similar or favourable situations. Ability to adapt and/or choose formative contexts associated with one's personal capacity or those one hopes to develop.
• CG37:Ability to undertake self-sufficient learning strategies and processes. Capacity to generate self-learning processes that autonomously complement the regulated learning.
• CG38:Ability to adapt to different contexts and situations. Ability to find the most efficient mechanisms for analysis and action in each context.

Social Interpersonal

• CG39:Motivation for teamwork with shared responsibilities. Capacity to participate in collective work where one undertakes tasks and roles involving leadership, research, description and communication.
• CG40:Motivation for working in international, interdisciplinary teams. Capacity to understand different ways of approaching problems, both in other disciplines and areas, as opportunities for learning and growth.
• CG41:Ability to design and manage proposals that involve social and environmental responsibility. Capacity to understand the commitment to the social and physical environment involved in the transformation processes of the same.
• CG42:Habilidad para las relaciones interpersonales y la comunicación. Capacidad para gestionar procesos que implican negociación de ideas en distintos foros.
• CG43:Awareness of diversity and multiculturalism. Capacity to understand the fundamental importance of the other and that which is different.
• CG44:Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts. Capacity to find compromised truths that are satisfactory for the opposing parties.

Entrepreneurship Capability System

• CG45:Ability for initiative and entrepreneurial spirit. Ability to take the initiative and cause things to happen or arise from unpredictable situations, establishing ways of progressing within a process.
• CG46:Ability to negotiate and take projective action. Capacity to problematise reality and implement sustainable propositive mechanisms for action in it.
• CG47:Motivation for research and the difficult art of innovation. Ability to relate to the unknown and understand ways of intervening successfully in building the future.
• CG48:Ability to describe controversies and problematise reality. Capacity to understand real contexts as extremely complex and sensitive. Capacity to describe them in terms of conflictive relationships and fields of opportunity.
• CG49:Ability to find solutions to difficult tasks. Capacity to define the right analysis strategies to deal with complex problems.
• CG50:Ability to lead intelligent initiatives and promote creative changes and processes. Ability to suggest processes that deal with controversies, to manage data for new information systems and generate expectations within the framework of creativity.
• CG51:Ability to work with risk and in unpredictable contexts. Capacity for initiative and entrepreneurial spirit to identify situations of risk and identify opportunities.

Organisation System

• CG52:Ability to manage and temporalise information and resources. Ability to understand the temporalisation of learning processes and adopt an expectant and receptive attitude.
• CG53:Motivation to develop Quality. Ability to incorporate the search for excellence into any complex process.

Leadership System

• CG54:Ability for emulation and inspirational influence. Capacity to find personal or social models related to ourselves in a real context and understand them as a network of friends that have travelled down identical roads before us.
• CG55:Ability to pursue good ideas. Capacity to find those ideas that are extremely relevant because of their synthetic and/or operative capacity and set them as priority goals.
• CG56:Ability to generate expectations and energise work groups. Capacity to respond adequately to the stimulation of the expectations raised (Pygmalion effect); Ability to generate an atmosphere promoting the exchange of experiences able to empower individual creative stimuli (Medici effect).
• CG57:Ability to plan and execute goals on the basis of ethical commitment. Capacity to organise our actions into effective and gratifying sequences, tending to achieve goals that include an ethical and sustainable reflection.
• CG58:Ability to provide intellectual stimuli and delegate. Ability to understand the capacities of others and use them in benefit of the team.

Achievement System

• CG59:Motivation to overcome obstacles. Capacity not to allow oneself to be intimidated by obstacles and know how to overcome them without significant personal losses. Capacity to optimise our energies and focus them on possible, self-regenerating goals.

Specific Competences:

Preparatory Block

• CE1:Ability to apply graphical procedures to represent spaces and objects.
• CE2:Ability to conceive and represent the visual attributes of objects and master proportion and drawing techniques, including computer-based techniques.
• CE3:Suitable understanding of spatial representation systems as applied to architecture and town planning.
• CE4:Suitable understanding of the analysis and theory of forms and the laws of visual perception applied to architecture and town planning.
• CE5:Suitable understanding of metric and projective geometry as applied to architecture and town planning.
• CE6:Suitable understanding of the techniques of all stages of architectural drawing, from drawing notes to computer-assisted drawing applied to architecture and town planning.
• CE7:Suitable understanding of the principles of general mechanics, statics, the geometry of masses and vector and tensor fields as applied to architecture and town planning.
• CE8:Suitable understanding of the principles of thermodynamics, acoustics and optics as applied to architecture and town planning.
• CE9:Suitable understanding of the principles of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, electricity and electromagnetism applied to architecture and town planning.
• CE10:Suitable understanding of the bases of topography, hypsometry and cartography and terrain modification techniques as applied to architecture and town planning.
• CE11:Conocimiento aplicado del cálculo numérico, la geometría analítica y diferencial y los métodos algebraicos.

Technical Block

• CE12:Ability to conceive, calculate, design, integrate in buildings and urban units and execute building structures.
• CE13:Ability to conceive, calculate, design, integrate systems for interior division, carpentry, stairways and other finished work in buildings and urban units.
• CE14:Ability to conceive, calculate, design, integrate in buildings and urban units and execute cladding, roofing and other structural work systems.
• CE15:Ability to conceive, calculate, design, integrate in buildings and urban units and execute foundation solutions.
• CE16:Ability to conceive, calculate, design, integrate in buildings and urban units and execute supply, water treatment and evacuation, heating and air-conditioning solutions.
• CE17:Ability to apply technical and building regulations.
• CE18:Ability to preserve building, foundation and civil works structures.
• CE19:Ability to preserve finished works.
• CE20:Ability to value works.
• CE21:Capacity to conserve structural work.
• CE22:Capacity to plan building and urban installations for transformation and electricity supply, audiovisual communication, acoustic conditioning and artificial lighting.
• CE23:Capacity to preserve installations.
• CE24:Suitable understanding of the mechanics of solids, continuous media and soil, as well as the plastic, elastic and resistance qualities of the materials used in heavy work.
• CE25:Suitable understanding of conventional building systems and their pathology.
• CE26:Suitable understanding of the physical and chemical characteristics, production procedures, pathology and use of building materials.
• CE27:Suitable understanding of industrialised building systems.
• CE28:Understand deontology, collegiate organisation, professional structure and civil liability.
• CE29:Understand administrative procedures and professional management proceedings
• CE30:Understand professional office organisation.
• CE31:Understand measurement, valuation and survey methods.
• CE32:Understand the on-site health and safety plan.
• CE33:Understand real estate management and direction.

Project Block

• CE34:Ability to conceive, prepare and develop basic projects for execution, sketches and draft projects.
• CE35:Ability to conceive, put into practice and develop urban projects.
• CE36:Ability to conceive, put into practice and develop site management.
• CE37:Ability to draw up functional programs for buildings and urban areas.
• CE38:Ability to act on, preserve, restore and rehabilitate the Architectural Heritage.
• CE39:Ability to remove architectural barriers.
• CE40:Ability to exercise architectural criticism.
• CE41:Ability to resolve passive environmental conditioning, including thermal and acoustic insulation, climate control, energy efficiency and natural lighting.
• CE42:Ability to catalogue urban architectural heritage and plan its protection.
• CE43:Capacity to carry out projects for safety, evacuation and protection in buildings.
• CE44:Capacity to draft civil works projects.
• CE45:Capacity to design and execute urban layouts and town planning, gardening and landscaping projects.
• CE46:Capacity to apply town planning regulations and bylaws
• CE47:Capacity to carry out environmental, landscaping and environmental impact correction studies.
• CE48:Suitable understanding of the general theories of shape, composition and architectural types.
• CE49:Suitable understanding of the general history of architecture.
• CE50:Suitable understanding of study methods for symbolisation, practical functions and ergonomics.
• CE51:Suitable understanding of study methods for social needs, quality of life, habitability and basic housing programmes.
• CE52:Suitable understanding of ecology, sustainability and the principles of conservation of energy and environmental resources.
• CE53:Suitable understanding of the architectural, town planning and landscape traditions of western culture, as well as their technical, climatic, economic, social and ideological foundations.
• CE54:Suitable understanding of aesthetics and the theory and history of fine arts and applied arts.
• CE55:Suitable understanding of the relationship between cultural standards and the social responsibilities of architects.
• CE56:Suitable understanding of the foundations of vernacular architecture.
• CE57:Suitable understanding of urban sociology, theory, economics and history.
• CE58:Suitable understanding of the methodological foundations of town, territorial and metropolitan planning.
• CE59:Suitable understanding of the mechanisms for drafting and managing urban planning on any scale.
• CE60:Understand civil, administrative and town planning regulations concerning building and industry as they affect one's professional activities.
• CE61:Understand feasibility analysis and the supervision and coordination of integrated projects.
• CE62:Understand the valuation of immovable assets.

Final Project Competences (PFG)

• CPFG:Presentación y defensa, una vez obtenidos todos los créditos del plan de estudios, de un ejercicio original realizado individualmente, ante un tribunal universitario en el que deberá incluirse al menos un profesional de reconocido prestigio propuesto por las organizaciones profesionales. El ejercicio consistirá en un proyecto integral de arquitectura de naturaleza profesional en el que se sinteticen todas las competencias adquiridas en la carrera, desarrollado hasta el punto de demostrar suficiencia para determinar la completa ejecución de las obras de edificación sobre las que verse, con cumplimiento de la reglamentación técnica y administrativa aplicable.

• Credit structure of the degree course
• Distribution of credits per subject type
• General description of the course programme
• Optional subjects and routes
  

CREDIT STRUCTURE OF THE DEGREE COURSE

Subjects in the Degree in Architecture, each worth 6 and 12 European ECTS credits, are organised into semesters. Specifically, students are required to take 30 credits per semester, and 60 credits per year, for a total of 300 credits over five years, plus a sixth course of 30 credits which reads Final Graduation Project.

In order to make the course compatible with other activities, students are allowed to take a part-time course consisting of 30 credits per academic year.

DISTRIBUTION OF CREDITS PER SUBJECT TYPE

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE PROGRAMME

The course programme has been structured around the three main areas specified in the Royal Decree regulating the degrees required in order to practice as an Architect and the subject matters established therein.

The degree course consists of 330 ECTS credits distributed over 6 years (11 semesters), bearing in mind that the last semester is given over to the Final Project.

• Preparatory Block: 60  core credits in Graphic Expression (36 credits) and Basic Sciences (Mathematics and Physics) (24 credits).
• Technical Block: 42 credits in Construction, 24 in Structures and 18 in Installations. There are also 36 optional credits in Construction (18 credits) and Structures (18 credits).
• Project Block: 72 credits in Projects, 36 in Composition and 36 in Urban Planning.

Optional subjects are also offered in English, Computer Science and Work Experience. Lastly, the Final Project is worth 30 credits, once the previous 300 credits have been obtained. Prior to evaluation for the final project, the student must provide evidence of ability in a foreign language. Among other possible qualifications, at the University of Alicante the minimum necessary requirement is to have attained level B1 of the European Framework of Reference for Languages, and this requirement may be raised in the future.

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS AND ROUTES

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT (IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Students who study an undergraduate degree at the University of Alicante must confirm a minimum level of B1 in a foreign language (a B2 is recommended) in order to obtain the diploma.  

The required language level is in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. 

The language accreditation requirement can be obtained previously or at any time during university studies. However, the language requirement will be necessary in order to be able to assess the final year project.

The different forms of obtaining such language requirement can be consulted in the additional information in this section.  

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LANGUAGE TEACHING COMPETENCE CERTIFICATE

Students who want to have a career in non-university teaching when they finish their studies are recommended to obtain the teaching competence certificate (Valencian and/or foreign languages).

This certificate can be obtained by taking specific itineraries in your university studies or by taking the UA teaching competence course in Valencian, German, French and English.

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FINAL YEAR PROJECT (TFG)

All the official undergraduate degrees must be completed by preparing and defending a final year project, which must be done in the final phase of the studies and be aimed at the assessment of competences associated to the degree.

The final year project must be an original, independent and personal work. The elaboration of it may by individual or coordinated. Each student will prepare this project under the supervision of a tutor, allowing students to show the received training content in an integrated many, as well as the acquired competences associated to the undergraduate degree.

In order to register in the final year project, students must comply with the requirements established in the “Regulations for continuation studies for students registered in undergraduate degrees at the University of Alicante”. Among the requirements established to be able to register in the final year project, a minimum of 168 credits must be passed in undergraduate degrees with a total of 240 credits, and a minimum of 228 credits in undergraduate degrees with a total of 300 credits or more.

In order for the final year project to be assessed, a B1 level of a foreign language (B2 is recommended) must be confirmed.

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• Access routes
• Procedure for applying for admission
• Number of places and court notes

ACCESS ROUTES

Admission to this degree course is open to any applicant who meets one of the following entrance requirements:

1. HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA AND UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION (Selection Examination). Although admission will be granted for all high school diploma disciplinary routes, it is recommended that applicants have studied the following disciplinary routes: Science and Technology.

Applicants’ admission grades for this course can be improved by taking the corresponding specific subject paper in the university entrance examination.  Papers for specific subjects with their corresponding weightings can be consulted in the table below.

High School Diploma Subjects

Academic Years 2010-11 2011-12

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Academic Years 2012-13 2013-14

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 2. PREVIOUS HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR EQUIVALENT QUALIFICATIONS FROM PREVIOUS EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURES WITH OR WITHOUT UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION: 

Applicants who have passed the previous entrance examination, or applicants who have not passed the previous entrance examination but hold one of the following qualifications: LOGSE high school diploma, COU, Pre-university course certificate, or any other qualification equivalent to the high school diploma, may take the new entrance examination.

Applicants who have passed the previous entrance examination may take a specific subject paper in order to improve their admission grade, but must still take the general examination.  Applicants who have not passed the entrance examination must take the general examination and may, if they wish, take the specific subject paper in order to improve their admission grade.

For specific subjects, the weightings indicated in the previous section must be taken into account.

3. VOCATIONAL TRAINING: Qualifications in Advanced Vocational Training, Advanced Technician in Plastic Arts and Design or Advanced Technician in Sports: admission is granted for any vocational area. 

Applicants’ admission grades for this course can be improved by taking the corresponding specific subject paper in the university entrance examination.  Papers for specific subjects with their corresponding weightings can be consulted in the table 1.

4. STUDENTS FROM EUROPEAN UNION EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS OR OTHER STATES WITH WHICH SPAIN HAS A RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.  AN ACCESS CERTIFICATE IS REQUIRED, issued by the UNED (Spanish National University for Distance Education). Applicants may take the specific subject paper in order to improve their admission grade.  They may also take the complete university entrance examination.

5. STUDENTS FROM FOREIGN EDUCATION SYSTEMS, FOLLOWING APPLICATION FOR HOMOLOGATION OF THEIR ORIGINAL HIGH SHCHOOL DIPLOMA WITH THE SPANISH HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA, AND SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION ORGANISED BY THE UNED.

6. ADMISSION FOR APPLICANTS OVER 25 YEARS OF AGE Specific university entrance examination.  From the total places offered, a minimum of 2% are reserved.  Preference is given to Engineering and Architecture. + info

7. ADMISSION FOR APPLICANTS OVER 40 YEARS OF AGE who do not hold academic qualifications but have accredited work and professional experience in accordance with accreditation criteria and the work and professional experience concerned.  An interview will be held.  A series of places are reserved for applicants over 40  years of age, of between 1% and 3% of the total places offered.  +info 

8. ADMISSION FOR APPLICANTS OVER 45 YEARS OF AGE. Specific university entrance examination.  This access route is open to applicants who do not hold a qualification which would qualify them for admission by another route, and who cannot accredit work and professional experience.  A series of places are reserved for applicants over 45 years of age, of between 1% and 3% of the total places offered. + info

9. UNIVERSITY DEGREES OR EQUIVALENT. 3% of the total places offered are reserved.

PROCEDURE FOR APPLYING FOR ADMISSION: PRE-ENROLMENT AND REGISTRATION

• Anticipated number of places offered during the first pre-enrolment session: 120
  

• In order to apply for a place, the procedure and pre-enrolment periods established each year must be observed. Information concerning the application procedure  (Pre-enrolment).

• Applicants admitted to a course must formally register within the timescale established annually in the enrolment calendar. Registration Information.

NUMBER OF PLACES AND PASS MARKS

• "Pass Marks" indicated correspond to the results of the first adjudication of June.
  
• The definitive marks can be inferior to the here collected.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILES

The degree in Architecture entitles the holder to practice professionally as an Architect. The professional contents of the degree are regulated by Law. Professional practice is supervised by the Professional Architect Associations.

The principle STANDARDS WHICH GOVERN THE PROFESSION OF ARCHITECTURE include the following (in chronological order):

a) Royal Decree 2512/1977 of 17 June approving the fees of architects in the exercise of their profession, ratified except in its economic aspects by the revocatory provision of Act 7/1997 of 14 April on liberalising measures with regard to land and professional associations. 

b) Act 38/1999 of 5 November on Building Planning.

c) Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications.

d) Royal Decree 314/2006 of 17 March approving the Building Technical Code (CTE).

These regulations not only presuppose the existence of the degree, but also endorse its importance in contemporary society, ascribing it responsibilities which are of great importance in developed economies. These include:

a) Drafting of building projects for new buildings, extensions, modifications, renovations, reformations and interventions in listed buildings.

b) Management of building projects for new buildings, extensions, modifications, renovations and reformations and interventions in listed buildings.

c) Supervision of building projects for new buildings, extensions, modifications, renovations and reformations and interventions in listed buildings, in those cases contemplated by existing regulations.

d) Drafting of urban planning instruments such as General Zoning Plans, Partial Zoning Plans, Detail Studies, Urban Development Programmes, Special Plans of all types, Secondary Zoning Regulations, Complementary Zoning Regulations and Projects for the Demarcation of Urban Land.

e) Drafting of urban management instruments, such as subdivision, re-division and expropriation projects.

f) Participation in the drafting of territorial management projects.

g) Drafting of development projects.

h) Consultancy and other development work.

i) Boundaries of land, plots and buildings; redrawing of boundaries; measurement of land, plots and buildings.

j) Appraisal and evaluation of land, plots, buildings and real property rights.

k) Drafting of reports, expert opinion and certificates regarding architecture, buildings, development and heritage; issuing of appraisal reports before courts of law and arbitration courts, both orally and in writing.

l) Drafting and management of decoration, furnishing and interior design projects for buildings and premises; stage, industrial and craft design.

m) Building and structure demolition projects.

n) Development and sizing of facilities.

o) Drafting of documents for building permits.

TIMESCALE FOR IMPLEMENTATION

The course programme proposed here for the University of Alicante Degree in Architecture will be implemented on a year-by-year basis. This involves replacing each year of the programme leading to the qualification of Architect currently being run by the University of Alicante Higher Institute of Engineering (1996 programme). Those subjects taught on the current degree will be completely phased out as soon as those of the new Degree Course in Architecture are implemented.

Implementation of the new University of Alicante Degree in Architecture course will begin in the academic year 2010-2011.

CREDIT EQUIVALENCE PROCEDURE

 Credits taken by Architecture students not listed in the above table may be validated by means of:

1. Degree course optional credits, up to the maximum number of optional credits established for each degree course.

2. Recognised free-elective credits validated for university, cultural or representational activities will be validated for the degree course, with a maximum of up to 6 academic credits to be validated for various activities, as set out in Art. 12.8 Royal Decree 1393/2007 (participation in cultural, sporting, student representation, charity and cooperation activities).

In addition to the adaptation table for subjects in the proposed programme and subjects in the Architecture programme being phased out, the terms and regulations for remaining and progressing at Alicante University must be respected.

Also aplicable is the Second Transitional Provision of the regulations oa Alicante University, which reads: "Students who do not wish to take the new degree course subjects are entitled to sit four examinations at the end of the following two academic years. Any students wishing to continue their studies after sitting and failing these examinations will be required to follow the new plan, according to the adaptation system established in the new programme. A one-to-one equivalence will be applied to LRU and ECTS credits, although overall limits will be established for the credit validation system".

DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE. SYLLABUS SUMMARY

Internal Quality Assurance System (SGIC) of the Title

• Structure of the Centre for Quality
  • Comission of Internal Quality Guarantee
  • Other Commissions  
• Handbook SGIC
• Procedures
  • Strategic (PE)
  • Key (PC)
  • Support (PA)
  • Measurement (PM)

• Management of the SGIC (Access to ASTUA)

Follow-up of the Title

• Self-reports UA
• External reports AVAP 
• Other reports
• Improvement Plans
• Progress and Learning Outcomes