The course is designed to ensure high standards in the professional practice of architecture and to give students the opportunity to extend their area of competence; it focuses on the design process but tempers this concern with the knowledge and experience needed for ideas to become reality in a way that is ethical, economical, efficient and legal; the teaching examines critical events in their own work experience, that of other course members and of the profession at large; the course encourage students to feel confident with higher levels of professional responsibility.