BA Urban Planning
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 32 points
About this course
BA Honours in Geography (human) and planning. Core topics include research methods. The programme is accredited and features field trips, live project work, and a final-year dissertation. Newcastle is used as a case study. Students may study abroad in Stage 2 and, subject to conditions, transfer to the RTPI- and RICS-accredited MPlan programme.
Modules
- Planning Processes
- Design Awareness and Communication
- Economics of Development I
- Environment and Sustainability
- Social Worlds
- Understanding Place: Methods and Perspectives
- Shaping Towns and Cities
- Planning for a Better World
- Researching Local Economies
- Research Skills
- Participation: Theories & Practice
- Houses and Homes
- Design & Neighbourhood
- Understanding Cities
- Digital Civics
- Urban Infrastructures: A Lens on the City
- Global Course on Institutional Design for Spatial Planning
- Study Abroad for Stage 2
- Researching Local Economies (Placement)
- Strategies into Action: Planning
- Development Management
- Planning Theory and Politics
- Dissertation
- Chinese Cultural History and Urban Development
- Disasters, Monsters and Mess
- Strategies Into Action: Urban Design