MSc in 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 Theory, Policy and Practice in the Global South 

2

Students choose courses up 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

Global Health and Development (H) *

DV433

The Informal Economy and Development (H)

DV442

Key Issues in Development Studies (H)

3

Courses up to the value of 1 unit (or 1.5 units if only choosing a half unit from Paper 2) from the following:

GY400

The Economics of Urbanization in Developing Countries (H)

GY421

Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H)

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H)

GY432

Urban Ethnography (H)

GY438

Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H)  (n/a 14/15)

GY439

Cities, Politics and Citizenship (H)

GY441

The Politics of Housing (H)

GY446

Planning for Sustainable Cities (H)

GY449

Urban Futures (H)

GY455

Economic Appraisal and Valuation (H)

GY464

Race and Space (H) (n/a 14/15)

GY467

Global Migration and Development (H) (n/a 14/15)

GY479

Urban Revolutions (H)

GY480

Remaking China: Geographical aspects of  Development and Disparity (H)

SO480

Urban Inequalities (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.