Degree: Ph.D
Specialty: Urban Planning and Design
Minimum Total Credits: 13.0
Minimum Compulsory Course Credits: 9.0
Minimum Optional Course Credits: 4.0
Objectives
This program aims to cultivate high-level specialized personnel of Urban Planning and Design who have solid and broad theoretical basis and systemic in-depth specialized knowledge as well as the creative ability with an all-round development in moral, intellectual and physical aspects and deep love for the socialist motherland.
Years of Study
3 years.
Major Research Fields
1. Urban Planning and Theory
2. Urban Design
3. Town Planning
4. Theories and Methods of Urban Development
5. Protection Planning of Historical and Cultural Towns
6. Urban and Architecture and Environmental Design
Cultivation Mode
Advisory system is applied in this doctoral program. Doctoral students should draw up a working program with the instruction of their supervisors in the first four weeks after registration. Students are supposed to participate in the medium term assessment according to Doctor Degree Candidate Medium-Term Assessment Method of South China University of Technology and complete the required social practices before the end of the third semester. Regular seminars (stage summary reports) are needed.
Dissertation
Doctoral students should prepare thesis proposals in the third semester. Before applying for the thesis defense, students are required to publish academic papers according to the requirements listed in Document #61, 2008 made by School of Graduate of South China University of Technology. Thesis defense will be arranged according to Rules for the Implementation of Graduation Degrees of South China University of Technology and Regulations of the Applications for Thesis Defense of South China University of Technology on the completion of theses.
Curriculum
Compulsory Courses | Course Code | Course Title | Credit | Teacher |
B0001001 | Modern Sscientific and Technological Revolution and Marxism | 3 | HUANG Liwen |
B0002012 | First Foreign Language (English) | 3 | ZHAO Weili |
B0813021 | Eastern and Western Architectural Culture and Philosophy | 3 | WU Qingzhou |
Optional Courses | B0002002 | Second Foreign Language (Japanese) | 2 | ZHU Lin |
B0002014 | Second Foreign Language（German） | 2 | CAI Shuxiang |
B0004009 | Scientific Writing and Submission Guidelines | 1 | LIU Shuhua |
B0813006 | Practical Statistics for Architects | 3 | WU Shuoxian |
B0813013 | Urban Environment Design Theory | 2 | XIAO Dawei |
B0813014 | Urban Design and Theory | 2 | ZHAO Honghong |
B0813015 | Urban Development Theory | 2 | TIAN Yinsheng |
B0813025 | Theory and Methods of Researches on Regional Architecture | 2 | LU Qi |
B0813026 | Subtropical Cities and Thermal Environment | 2 | MENG Qinglin |
