MSc in City Design and Social Science

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Programme Code: TMCIDSS

Department: Sociology

For students starting this programme of study in 2024/25

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

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four full units.

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)
	SO480 Urban Inequalities (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)
	GY477 Race, Capitalism and Resistance (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	GY479 Urban Transformations (0.5)
	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)
	SO4C5 The Social Life of Infrastructure (0.5)

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.

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