MSc Urbanisation and Development

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four full units.

Paper

Course number and title

1

GY445

Urban Policy and Practice in the South 

2

Students choose courses to the value of 1 unit from:

 

DV400

Development: History, Theory and Policy

DV407

Poverty (H)*

DV411

Population and Development: An Analytical Approach (H)

DV418

African Development (H) 

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H)

DV421

HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats (H) * (n/a 11/12)

DV433

The Informal Economy and Non-State Governance (H)

3

Courses to the value of 1 unit from the following:

GY421

Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H) (n/a 11/12)

GY430

Contemporary Urbanism

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H) (n/a 11/12)

GY432

Urban Ethnography (H)

GY438

Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H)

GY439

Cities, Politics and Citizenship (H)

GY446

Planning for Sustainable Cities (H)

GY455

Economic Appraisal and Valuation (H)

GY464

Race and Space (H)

GY467

Development, Diaspora and Migration (H)

GY468

Environment and Development: Sustainability, Technology and Business (H)

GY469

Environment and Development: Resources, Institutions and the Global South (H)

GY479

The Urban Revolution (H)

 

Other urban and/or development courses available in the School as approved by the programme director

4

GY499

Dissertation on an approved topic

Notes

* Capped course with priority for International Development students so admission not guaranteed.

 

In exceptional cases it may be possible to make alternative choices for papers 2 & 3 with the approval of the Programme Director.

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