Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

The Master in Civil Engineering provides professional skills in urban and territorial planning. Therefore, this optional subject focuses on providing tools for contemporary analysis of the territory, for decision-making in planning, management or design processes, with a multi-scale and multifunctional character, fundamental for understanding the design basis of contemporary urbanism. In this sense, it complements and deepens aspects that are not covered by the other compulsory and optional subjects of the Master's degree.

This optional subject of the Master in Civil Engineering is taught by lecturers from the Department of Town and Regional Planning. For more information on the academic activities of the Area's lecturers, please visit https://web.ua.es/docenciaurbanismo.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

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Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

The main objectives of this subject are

  • To familiarise students with the tools, both methodological and technological, to address strategic issues on a territorial scale: GIS (QGIS) and Infraworks (Autodesk).
  • To provide a specific approach to the forms of research and innovation in the field of urban planning and, in particular, in the configuration of territories and cities today.
  • To offer students a selection of relevant contemporary actions in the field of strategic planning, which will provide them with references in professional practice.
  • To identify criteria for the evaluation of contemporary actions on a peri-urban-territorial scale within the framework of the civil engineering profession.

The focus of this theme is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 10: Reduce inequalities.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 13: Climate action

LEARNING COMPETENCIES (see definitions in the verified degree report):

Basic and General [CB07], [CB08], [CB09], [CB10], [G10], [G12].

Transversal [CT01], [CT02], [CT03], [CT04].

Specific [CE11], [CE12].

 

 

General

Code: 49445
Lecturer responsible:
Bernabeu Bautista, Álvaro
Credits ECTS: 3,00
Theoretical credits: 0,00
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 1,80

Departments involved

  • Dept: Building Sciences and Urbanism
    Area: URBAN DESING AND REGIONAL PLANNING UNIT
    Theoretical credits: 0
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught