Overview
Introduction to the principles of sustainable land development and management in Aotearoa New Zealand’s built and natural environments: land administration, land rights, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, planning, and engineering design.
SURV130 will introduce you to the diverse ways in which surveyors synthesise positioning and measurement with other human concerns regarding the land surface, including rights in, indigenous and colonial/settler contexts of, and design interactions with the land surface.
About this paper
| Paper title | People, Place and the Built Environment |
|---|---|
| Subject | Surveying |
| EFTS | 0.1334 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,355.21 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Schedule C
- Science
- Contact
- Teaching staff
Professor Christina Hulbe (coordinator), Kelly Gragg, Fraser Jopson, Dr Francesca Marzatico
- Paper Structure
SURV130 includes a mixture of lectures, workshops and independent work. The workshops include fieldwork in our local built environment, basic GIS map-making and data analysis, and an introduction to computer-aided drafting and design. The internal assessment includes in-class activities (lecture and workshop), and quizzes based on workshop activities and on your own independent reading.
- Teaching Arrangements
Three 1-hour lectures and one 3-hour workshop per week.
- Textbooks
Textbooks are not required for this paper.
A workshop guide will be provided and supplemented with additional materials.- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- People and Place in Aotearoa Zealand
- Explain and apply concepts of place as they relate to built environments in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Identify and explain the sources of law as they apply to rights in land and land planning
- Describe and explain major patterns and consequences of land use and land use change, before and after 1840
- Describe and explain the meaning and significance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the context of land use
- Land use planning
- Describe the governance of land use in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Understand the purpose of land planning as a human activity
- Sustainability and Climate Change
- Explain the main elements of sustainability and the science of climate change, with an emphasis on Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region
- Evaluate a land development project in the context of climate change and sustainability
- The built environment
- Describe basic functions and performance objectives of primary engineering infrastructures in the built environment
- Identify and explain inter-relationships among primary and secondary infrastructures
- Investigate primary infrastructures and propose improvements to address sustainability and climate change
- Visualising the built environment
- Explain and apply basic site visit and civil engineering drawing concepts including plan elevation, oblique and isometric views
- Able to construct basic civil engineering drawings both on paper and using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software
- People and Place in Aotearoa Zealand