Programme Structure and Curriculum
The curriculum framework, according to RWTH’s comprehensive examination regulation and TCR’s examination regulation.
Types of courses
There are three different types of course-types, dependent on how freely one can choose the courses.
Compulsory Modules
The compulsory modules or core courses focus on dynamics of contemporary cities, the processes shaping the form and structure of cities, and designing tools for urban transformation. The knowledge provided by a multidisciplinary teaching staff provides knowledge, tools, and methodologies to respond to challenges of evolving European territories while being aware of different spatial aspects such as social, economic, and ecological ones.
Elective Compulsory Modules
The increasing territorial complexity and issues with different structural and content-related priorities and the link with the foundations of other disciplines should lead to integrative and conceptual thinking. The elective compulsory courses are characterised by a broad spectrum of methodological, procedural, morphological, landscape architectural, ecological, legal, and economic aspects.
Elective Modules
The elective courses supported by a multidisciplinary teaching staff are characterised by a broad spectrum of methodological, procedural, morphological, landscape architectural, ecological, legal, and economic aspects.