BS in City and Regional Planning – LCWU – Lahore

Course Name:    BS in City and Regional Planning

Overview:   

The department offers degree programs in the following two disciplines.

Architecture

City & Regional Planning

Architecture:

The rapid growth of the development process at the national level has resulted in a serious demand for appropriately qualified and trained Architects in the country. The demand for recognized professional architects is on the rise, whereas few institutes/universities offer a degree recognized by the Higher Education Commission accredited by the Pakistan Council of architects and Town planners. In view of this, the Department of Architecture was established in the university during the last academic session.

The Lahore College for Women University has a long history of imparting quality education to the women folk of the country. Since the inception of the university a large number of new disciplines have been introduced. As a result, there has been a phenomenal increase in student enrollment. The university has introduced a five year degree program in Architecture leading to a professional degree of B.Arch., which in due course of time will be accredited by the Pakistan Council of Architects and Planners.

The program of the department emphasizes a studio based design skill acquisition process where an individual is working towards her own goal through a problem solving situation, while constantly exposed to a group (also involved in a similar activity) in order share and take advantage of collective “give and take” with a through grinding in theory(science, engineering and humanities).

The university is in process of establishing the most modern, state of the art laborites for various subjects. With the establishment of these state of the art labs, the department at the university will serve as a center of excellence in the country which will focus on studying the past, present and future trends in the development of built environment. The Department shall, thus shoulder the responsibility of preserving our social and cultural values and heritage and providing technical expertise to keep up with the demands of the changing times.

The Architectural curriculums at the university consist of 184 credit hours and require a student to take an average of 17-18 credit hours per semester to complete the requirements of the course in five years (ten semesters as against the minimum requirement of 151 credit hours by the higher Education Commission.

City & Regional Planning:

City and Regional Planning (CRP) Department is first department of its kind in a Women University in Pakistan with broader objective of mainstreaming gender in development. The establishment of the CRP Department at LCWU was recommended by the National Curriculum Review Committee (NCRC) on City and Regional Planning in its meetings held at Higher Education Commission (HEC), Regional Office, and Karachi. The recommendation to establish CRP department at LCWU was endorsed by the representatives of Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners (PCATP) in NCRC-CRP.

CRP is a collaborative initiative of International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISoCaRP), the Netherlands, which is a strong advocate of strengthening the technical capacities of women city planners in developing countries to meet the challenges faced by urban agglomerations and designing of socially inclusive low carbon cities in hyper dynamic perspective.

CRP Department at LCWU considers women’s role in development as envisioned in Global Agenda 21 which was core work product from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 which was reaffirmed in Rio +20 (2012) by the United National Conference on Sustainable Development in the outcome document, “The Future We Want”.

The department aims to provide qualified city and regional planners having expertise in remote sensing/ GIS, city planning, rural development, disaster management, estate management, hazard mapping, linking urban poverty with water and sanitation indices, policy formulation and designing of socially inclusive cities for physically challenged, visually impaired and elderly citizens for their barrier free mobility.

It is also under consideration that part of the program/internship will be conducted in some international partner institutions in Japan, European Union and UK etc. with the collaboration of International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISoCaRP), Netherlands, with full / partial scholarships. The graduates of our department will be highly skilled city and regional planners with expertise to design productive cities meeting the challenge of youth employment by linking economic policies including infrastructure investment and job creation for creative cities.

Number of Semesters:    8

Requirements

• F.A/F.Sc./A-Level and equivalent students in relevant subjects with more than 60% marks and A-level students with high grades only are eligible to apply for BS programs.
  
• The candidates who have not studied Mathematics at intermediate level are not eligible to apply for the Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and BBA.
  
• The student must have studied the major subject at intermediate level (in which she is seeking admission).
  
• The subjects like International Relations, Mass Communication, Social Work, Gender Studies, not offered at inter level are opened for all students.
  
• Only I.Com qualified students are eligible to apply for B.Com.
  
• The students who wish to study English Literature, Fine Arts and Design & Visual Arts will have to qualify an aptitude test.
  
• The students are not allowed to change their major subjects unless they have applied for multiple programs. They can change minor subjects within seven working days after commencement of regular classes. No application for the change of subjects will be entertained after the notified due date.
  

  Supplementary cases are not eligible to apply
  

Course Duration:     4 Years

How to apply:

• The candidates can obtain admission forms along with prospectus from the university office on the dates notified.
  
• They are directed to attach the attested photocopies of the following documents with the form:
  

a. Matriculation Certificate / Equivalent

b. Intermediate Certificate / Equivalent

c. Provisional / Character Certificate from the Head of the Institution last attended.

d. Domicile Certificate.

e. CNIC/Form B. of the candidate

f. Monthly Income Certificate of Father / Guardian.

g. Migration Certificate (Other Board / University).

h. Three attested passport size photographs.

i. CNIC/Form B. of the candidate’s Father / Guardian.

• In case of Foreign Candidate:
  

a. Attested photocopy of Foreign Passport.

b. Forwarding letter from the concerned embassy and Higher Education department, Govt. of the Punjab, Lahore.

• The declaration at the back of the form must be signed by the candidate as well as by the parent.
  
• The candidate must not be above 22 years of age on the last date of the receipt of form.
  
• All the selected candidates are required to bring the original documents, one set of attested photo copies of these documents and four photographs at the time of depositing university dues.
  
• After payment of dues, the candidate will go to the teacher on duty and get her Roll No. and section written at the back of her fee receipt which once allotted cannot be changed.
  
• The selected candidates will be admitted provisionally and the Verification Committee of the University will make final admission after the verification of the documents. If at any stage after the admission it comes to the knowledge of the authorities that the documents presented by the candidate are fake or there is a misstatement or clerical error in the documents, her admission will be cancelled.
  
• Migration is not allowed.
  

Curriculum:

Structure of Scheme of Study

Year-I
Semester-I

Semester-II

Year-2
Semester-III

Semester-IV

Year-3
Semester-V

Semester-VI

Year-4
Semester-VII

Semester-VIII

* Project offered in semester VII

Total Hours:  17+19+17+16+17+17+16+15=134 CR

Note: Internship of 4-6 weeks with credit hours (0-0) is mandatory in the second / third year during semester breaks / summer vacations to gain practical experience and to provide exposure to the students in the field of City & Regional Planning.