MSc in Human Geography and Urban Studies (Research)

Programme Code: TMHUGYRE

Department: Geography & Environment

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

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Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students are required to be examined in elements from the three parts of the programme as specified below to the value of four units. Precise examination arrangements are listed under each course guide.

Paper

Course number and title

Part I - Research Core

1

GY403

Contemporary Debates in Human Geography Seminar (H)

2

Advanced Research Methods course to the value of one unit chosen from:

 

MY400

Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design (H)

 

MY421M or MY421L Qualitative Research Methods (H)

 

MY426

Doing Ethnography (H)

 

MY427

Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data (H)

 

MY429

Special Topics in Qualitative Research: Introspection-based Methods in Social Research (H) (not available 2017/18)

Part II - Substantive Specialism

3

Courses to the value of 1.5 units from the following:

GI409

Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction (H)

GI420

Globalisation, Gender and Development: Theorising Policy and Practice (H)

GY409

Globalisation and Regional Development (H)

GY415

Local Capacity and Economic Development Policy (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H)

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) (not available 2017/18)

GY447

The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (H)

GY448

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

GY449

Urban Futures (H)

GY459

Urban Theory and Policy in the Global South (H)

GY464

Race and Space (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY467

Global Migration and Development (H) (not available 2017/18)

GY470

Urban Africa (H)

GY479

Urban Revolutions (H)

GY480

Remaking China: Geographical Aspects of Development and Disparity (H) (not available 2017/18)

OR Another coherent combination of GY and non-GY courses to the value of one and a half units as approved by the Programme Manager.

Part III

4

GY499

Dissertation

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