MA Designing Learning Environments

Key facts

School of Architecture, Faculty of Social Sciences
1 year full-time/2 years part-time

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Entry requirements

You'll need a 2:1 honours degree or an equivalent qualification related to design in the built environment, such as architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, town planning or education and learning.

If you have a 2:1 honours degree in another area plus a teacher-training qualification or substantial professional design experience in architecture, interior design, landscape design, town planning, construction or education then we’ll consider your application.

We'd like to see your portfolio and a written statement of your interest in the design of learning environments.

English language requirements: overall IELTS grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component, or equivalent.

Entry requirements for international students

Any questions?

If you'd like to know more about any aspect of our courses, contact us:

E: ssoa@sheffield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)114 222 0306/0309

About the course

Explore the relationship between learning, children and young people's culture, and educational environments. You'll draw on international theory and practice, and our team's expertise, you'll become a professional designer of learning environments. We emphasise school and kindergarten, but you can investigate all sorts of educational settings.

Core Modules

Contemporary Policy and Practice – Learning Environments
History and Theory of Learning Environments
Participation in Architectural Design
Learning, Pedagogy, Space
Learning Environment Design
Advanced Study and Research Methods
Advanced Research Project

Teaching

Seminars
Research and design work
The opportunity to relate coursework to your professional setting

Advance your career

Our graduates are architects, project managers, urban designers and client advisors.

Employers include the Olympic Park Legacy Company, Hawkins Brown, Renzo Piano Building Workshop and URBED (Urbanism, Environment & Design) Ltd.

With a post-qualification degree, you could move on to a senior position or further academic research and teaching.

Learn from experts

You’ll be joining one of the largest and most diverse groups of full-time architecture academics in the country. Our staff come from the arts, physical and social sciences, and engineering. This connects our research to other disciplines and stimulates debate about the future of architecture.

Our international research projects shape policy and address public and professional needs. They are integrated with our teaching on courses that will develop your core skills. You’ll be encouraged to provide social and environmental solutions to the challenges of our time.

Explore your ideas

We have design studios, traditional lecture and seminar areas, research rooms, specialist laboratories and computing facilities. There are also specialist architecture resources in the University library.

You'll be able to access our own technical workshop, photographic and audio-visual unit, a range of specialist lighting, acoustic and thermal environmental assessment and experimental facilities, and a postgraduate common room.

Our teaching is more than lectures and seminars. Our student-led design projects help you learn by doing.

Apply now

You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form