MSc in City Design and Social Science

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Programme Code: TMCIDSS

Department: Sociology

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

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

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.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Paper	Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1	SO448 City Design: Research Studio (1.0)

Papers 2 & 3
	Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following: PP465 City-Making: the Politics of Urban Form (0.5)
	SO451 Cities by Design (0.5)
	SO477 Urban Social Theory (0.5)

Paper 4	A
	Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following: GY409 Globalisation and territorial development: Theory, Evidence and Policy (0.5)
	GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
	GY438 Urban Asia: Cities and Social Change (0.5)
	GY439 Cities, Politics and Citizenship (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	GY441 The Politics of Housing (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	GY448 Social and Political Aspects of Planning (0.5)
	GY455 Economic Appraisal and Valuation (0.5)
	GY479 Urban Transformations (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	MY424 Advanced qualitative field methods for researching space and place (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)
	PP465 City-Making: the Politics of Urban Form (0.5)
	SO451 Cities by Design (0.5)
	SO473 Crime, Control and the City (0.5)
	SO475 Material Culture and Design (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	SO477 Urban Social Theory (0.5)
	SO480 Urban Inequalities (0.5)
	SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)
	SP435 Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)
	SP437 International Housing and Human Settlements; Conflicts and Communities (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)

Paper 5	SO449 Independent Project (1.0)

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

A: Paper 4: Any other course in the Department of Sociology, or other departments (special permission only), by agreement with the course tutor.

Note for prospective students:
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