MSc in City Design and Social Science

Programme code: TMCIDSS

Full-year programme which can also be taken part-time over three years. Students must take the City Design: Research Studio course, two compulsory half-unit courses, an independent project, and one unit of optional courses.

Paper

Course number and title

1

SO448

City Design: Research Studio

2

SO451

Cities by Design (H)

3

SO465

City-Making: the Politics of Urban Form (H)

4

Courses to the value of one full unit from the following:

 

GY409

Globalisation and Regional Development (H)

GY410

Economics of Local and Regional Development (H) 

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H) (n/a 15/16)

GY432

Urban Ethnography (H) (n/a 15/16)

GY438

Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H) (n/a 15/16)

GY439

Cities, Politics and Citizenship (H)

GY441

The Politics of Housing (H) (n/a 15/16)

GY446

Planning for Sustainable Cities (H)

GY448

Social and Political Aspects of Regional and Urban Planning (H)

GY449

Urban Futures (H)

GY455

Economic Appraisal and Valuation (H)

GY479

Urban Revolutions (H)

SA429

Understanding Social (Dis)advantage  (H)

SA4C6

International Housing and Human Settlements (H)

SA4F9

Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (H)

SO473

Crime, Control and the City (H) (n/a 15/16)

SO475

Material Culture and Design (H)

SO477

Urban Social Theory (H) (n/a 15/16)

SO480

Urban Inequalities (H) (n/a 15/16)

SO483

Social Change Organizations (H)

5

SO449

Independent Project

 

Any other course in the Department of Sociology, or other departments §, by agreement with the course tutor

 

Notes

§ means by special permission only.