Teaching and Learning Center

Pedagogy

At CEPT, we imagine our graduates to be highly skilled, have wide exposure and distinct skills. Studios are center-stage to learning design and have are the most important part of the curriculum.

CEPT University believes diverse graduates are needed to respond to the building world, which poses a vast range of design and planning problems. To facilitate this diversity, our curriculum and programs allow students to choose  a course of study based on their temperament and preference. The set of courses at CEPT is more like an assorted platter to choose from, rather than a plate where a student has fixed items to gorge. This approach enables the trajectory of each student to be unique. The curriculum lays added emphasis on the learning outcomes of studios.

Both teaching and learning are important, but effectiveness of teaching is only evident in what students are learning. The curriculum must state what students will learn rather than what teachers will teach. Tutors must state the Learning Outcomes which should focus on developing a student’s abilities or skills. The ability should enable the student to apply the content and recognize its transferability to contexts beyond the studio. They should demonstrate what a student will be able to do as a consequence of the learning, for example: “The student will be able to visualize how a space will appear from a given position and draw a two point perspective of how it will appear.”