Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
The value of urban design is investigated by considering the performance at a local area/precinct scale.
An understanding of urban design, key moments in the history of urban design, the role of urban design relative to other professions of the built environment; the value of theory and conceptual frameworks; the value of morphological and typological analysis and the role of urban design in the global South is demonstrated.
A case study analysis (both international and local) is conducted to understand the role of urban design and the urban design practice is reflected upon.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
An understanding of the dynamic nature of graphic software evolution and the breadth of communication options available to designers is shown.
A combination of techniques are used to suit different design problems.
An understanding of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is demonstrated.
The potential of imaginative urban design is understood and appreciated to influence higher order decisions in a discursive and visually accessible and demonstrative manner through engagement in ‘the art of the possible’ (catalytic mode).
Existing contexts/situations are successfully analysed and mapped for the purpose of informing responsive urban design solutions at precinct scale.
Visual and verbal techniques are combined in advancing the idea of integrated urban design at precinct scale.
Urban design solutions that extend across space and time are communicated with other disciplines of the built environment.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
Sites are selected for simulated projects which then become the subject of focused urban design exercises.
Urban design intervention is considered at both a catalytic and responsive level.
Physical place making is considered in the context of social, political and economic constraints.
Review of strategies and ideas are continually refined and synthesised and strategies and ideas are presented in the studio.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
A problem statement, the design of the research, the methodologies to be adopted, sources to be consulted; interview strategies, a bibliography and the relation of the proposed research project to urban design discourse are developed.
Appropriate urban design theories via a literature review are identified and related to theory and topical themes within the current urban design discourse.
The relevance of theory is investigated and communicated via case study analysis.
A well-defined urban design issue or question is identified and addressed in the context of a selected site.
Design orientated research findings are evaluated and analysed according to explicit and well-defined criteria and a design response to the issue/question is defended.

Integrated Assessment:
Assessment will be ongoing, whether the learner is engaged in studio work, course work or research. Assessment will evaluate a learner’s ability to grasp a problem, to work creatively with constraints, to gather, analyse, synthesise, evaluate and interpret the necessary information, and to formulate, articulate, develop and represent a relevant and sophisticated response.

Formative assessment focuses on the learner’s ability to generate and develop ideas and possible solutions within the requirements and constraints posed by the problem under investigation. Formative assessment is viewed as a response to the learner’s output with the possibility of further development upon critical reflection.

Summative assessment focuses on the learner’s response to the requirements and constraints posed by the problem and will take the form of a final examination of and oral presentation of the Urban Design Research Project at the end of the academic year. The qualification requires considerable fieldwork in the Cape Town area and in some cases field trips to other parts of the country will be arranged. Each project will culminate in the submission of a document and the oral presentation of project work.