Additional course rules

A minimum of 18 credit points must be taken at levels 4 and 5

Course learning outcomes

The graduates of James Cook University are prepared and equipped to create a brighter future for life in the tropics world-wide.

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility.  JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Planning (Honours) at James Cook University will be able to:

• Integrate and apply a coherent and advanced body of theoretical and technical knowledge, with depth in underlying principles and concepts in the discipline of urban and regional planning

• Evaluate and reflect on strategic, statutory, professional and ethical frameworks to perform key urban and regional planning tasks, especially in diverse tropical contexts

• Review critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise information and evidence relevant to diverse planning, land use and development contexts

• Utilise appropriate quantitative and qualitative methods, technical tools and geographic information systems for data analysis and spatial mapping

• Communicate issues, proposals, actions and research findings clearly and coherently to diverse audiences through advanced written and oral English language, numeracy and graphical skills and a range of media

• Apply strategic, critical, creative and spatial thinking, and planning knowledge and evidence, to identify, analyse and generate solutions to complex, unpredictable and/or emergent problems

• Demonstrate initiative and responsibility in decision making and management of time, risk and conflicts in planning and design projects

• Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively with other planners and, where appropriate, multidisciplinary, culturally diverse, Indigenous, minority and/or special needs groups

• Review, evaluate and/or monitor planning tools, processes, proposals and plans

• Reflect on current knowledge, skills and attitudes to manage professional learning needs, performance and work readiness, autonomously and in collaboration with others

• Apply knowledge of research principles, methods, techniques and tools to plan and execute project work and/or a piece of research and scholarship with some independence.