Postgraduate Certificate in Designed Environments

Summary

Build on your knowledge of the designed environment and open the door to Master's level study.

Build on your knowledge of the designed environment and open the door to further postgraduate study in Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Landscape Architecture.

If you’re already working in the industry, the Postgraduate Certificate in Designed Environments (PGCertDE) can be completed part time and will give you up-to-date professional development.

Pathway towards a Master's degree

You'll study four postgraduate (400-level) courses in Architecture, Interior Architecture, and/or Landscape Architecture. The programme can be completed full time over one trimester, or part time over at most two years.

The PGCertDE acts as a stepping stone towards the Postgraduate Diploma in Designed Environments (PGDipDE) and then to five Master's programmes:

• Master of Architecture
• Master of Architecture (Professional)
• Master of Interior Architecture
• Master of Landscape Architecture.
• Master of Urban and Regional Planning

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What you'll study

You will receive a world-class education at the Wellington School of Architecture. During your studies, you’ll have access to state-of-the-art workshops, studios, and computer labs. You’ll learn through lectures, studio sessions, seminars, laboratories, and field trips. And you’ll be encouraged to learn, design, and create through different media.

In the studio sessions, you’ll be taught in face-to-face mode with interactive lectures, one-to-one design tutorials, small group design tutorials, and informal and formal presentations.

Networking

Networking is part of your study experience. You’ll have the opportunity to meet people working in the industry and take part in public lectures.

The best city life has to offer

Students at Te Aro campus enjoy the vibrant Cuba street culture, great coffee, and shopping nearby—everything is easy to access in this compact city. Students also have access to the student services and resources of the University’s nearby Kelburn campus.

Live and study in New Zealand’s creative, compact, and vibrant capital. As well as being the country’s political, diplomatic and security hub, Wellington is a harbour city with easy access to the great outdoors.