Paper 1

Part I - Research Core

GY403 Contemporary Debates in Human Geography (0.5) #

Paper 2

Advanced Research Methods course to the value of 1.0 unit chosen from:

MY400 Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design (0.5)

MY405 Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation (0.5)

MY421L Qualitative Research Methods (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY421M Qualitative Research Methods (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY424 Advanced qualitative field methods for researching space and place (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)

MY426 Doing Ethnography (0.5) #

MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) #

MY452L Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452M Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY455 Multivariate Analysis and Measurement (0.5) #

MY456 Survey Methodology (0.5) #

MY457 Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (0.5) #

MY459 Computational Text Analysis and Large Language Models (0.5) #

MY461 Social Network Analysis (0.5)

MY465 Intermediate Quantitative Analysis (0.5) #

MY470 Computer Programming (0.5)

MY472 Data for Data Scientists (0.5)

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Part II - Substantive Specialism A

Courses to the value of 1.5 unit(s) from the following:

GI409 Conceptual Foundations in Gender, Development and Globalization (0.5) #

GI420 Feminist Perspectives on Transnational Development (0.5)

GY409 Globalisation and territorial development: Theory, Evidence and Policy (0.5)

GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

GY432 Urban Ethnography (0.5)

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)

GY446 Planning for Sustainable Cities (0.5)

GY447 The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (0.5) #

GY448 Social and Political Aspects of Planning (0.5)

GY449 Urban Futures (0.5) #

GY459 Global Urbanism (0.5)

GY470 Urban Africa (0.5)

GY476 Applied Geographical Information Systems (0.5)

GY477 Race, Capitalism and Resistance (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GY479 Urban Transformations (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

Paper 4

Part III

GY487 Dissertation - MSc in Human Geography and Urban Studies (Research) (1.0)