Urban & Housing Practice

Programme Structure

Students taking the MSc in Urban and Housing Practice take 120 taught credits and complete a 60 credit dissertation. There are three core courses:

• Contemporary Government and Governance (20 credits)
• Changing Cities and Neighbourhoods (20 credits)
• Policy Analysis (20 credits)

 Students must then choose at least one course at 20 credits and one course at 10 credits from the following core optional courses:

• Sustainable Housing Development (20 credits)
• Community Participation in Neighbourhood Regeneration (10 credits)
• Crime and Community Safety A (10 credits)
• Crime and Community Safety B (10 credits)
• Designing Places (10 credits)
• Housing and the Inclusive Society (10 credits)
• Strategic Management and Decision Making (10 credits)

Students can then choose from the following options to complete the 120 credits.

• Evaluation and Public Policy (10 credits)
• Community Planning and Partnership (10 credits)
• Remaking Urban Neighbourhoods (10 credits)
• Researching and Evidencing the Policy Process (10 credits)
• Regenerating Cities: Strategies and Evaluation (20 credits)
• Economic Development & Employment (20 credits)
• Spatial Planning Strategies (10 credits)

The timetable is very flexible. Students studying on a part-time or modular basis are not required to complete core courses before optional courses.

Some students choose to take a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip - 120 credits).  This covers the same taught modules but does not include the dissertation.

To complete the MSc, students need to achieve a higher standard on the taught modules than is required for the PGDip qualification. Students who fail to achieve this standard will not be permitted to undertake the dissertation and progress to an MSc. The dissertation is an independent, self-directed research project of around 12,000 words (60 credits).