CCAE micro-credentials 2026-27

Delivery schedule for three Level 9 micro-credentials at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, University College Cork. Each carries 5 ECTS over 12 weeks. The schedule is built around people in full-time work and learners studying remotely: every session can be joined online live or watched on demand, so you choose the level of live participation that fits your week.

AT6012

Design Research: Technology Transformations

Starts: Wednesday 23 September 2026
Live sessions: Wednesdays 10:00 to 13:00, ends 9 December 2026
Delivery: 12 three-hour lectures, live online, with 89 hours of asynchronous activity. Guest speakers join during the live slot and in the shared lunchtime series.

NFQ Level 95 ECTS12 weeksOnline

Module page on ucc.ie

AT6020

Research Methods II: Digital Storytelling and Immersive Fictions

Starts: Monday 26 October 2026
Live sessions: Mondays 14:00 to 17:00. Eight sessions before Christmas, four in January 2027.
Delivery: 12 three-hour workshops (laboratory sessions), delivered remotely, plus 4 one-hour lectures hosted in the shared lunchtime series and 100 hours of independent enquiry.

NFQ Level 95 ECTS12 weeksRemote

Module page on ucc.ie

AT6031

Reviving Buildings: Methods and Praxis for Adaptive Reuse and Resilient Retrofit

Starts: Wednesday 25 November 2026
Live sessions: Wednesdays 13:00 to 14:00, ends 3 March 2027
Delivery: 8 one-hour lunchtime lectures in the shared Wednesday hour, with 11 two-hour seminars/webinars released as evening on-demand recordings and 90 hours of asynchronous activity.

NFQ Level 95 ECTS12 weeksBlended

Module page on ucc.ie

The week at a glance

The recurring pattern when all three modules run together (late November to early December 2026)

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

10:00 to 13:00

AT6012 lecture, live onlineweekly three-hour session with guest speakers

13:00 to 14:00

Shared lunchtime hourAT6031 lunchtime lectures and the guest lecture series, open to all three modules

14:00 to 17:00

AT6020 workshop (laboratory session)three hours, remote

Evening

AT6031 seminars/webinars released as evening on-demand recordings. Recordings of every live session across the three modules stay available throughout.

The lunchtime hour on Wednesdays is shared. Learners on any of the three modules can attend, and the four AT6020 lectures are hosted here.

Term timeline

September 2026 to March 2027, one column per week. Click any week for the detail.

AT6012, Wed 10:00 to 13:00 AT6020, Mon 14:00 to 17:00 AT6031, Wed 13:00 to 14:00 Christmas break

Click a week above to see its sessions.

Designed for working people

These schedules were planned around the working week. Live sessions sit at lunchtime or in a single weekly block, so a learner in full-time practice can join from the office or site, and a remote learner can join from anywhere. Live attendance is encouraged and never required: every lecture, workshop (laboratory session), and guest talk is recorded, and recordings stay available for the full run of each module. Learners working around jobs or caring commitments can complete any of the three courses entirely from the recordings and asynchronous material, or mix live and on-demand participation week by week.

Guest speaker dates for the shared lunchtime series will be announced at the start of each term.