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BA Geography and Urban Planning

Newcastle University

Institution
Newcastle University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Geography and Urban Planning
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
LK74
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: ABB IB: 32 points

About this course

BA Honours in Geography (Human) and Planning and Geography, combining human geography with urban planning. Core topics include research methods and fieldwork. The course integrates geography and urban planning, and the first year is professionally accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute. A dissertation is completed in the final year.

Modules

  • Interconnected World
  • Coasts and Communities: Human Geography Fieldwork
  • Mapping a changing world: GIS for Geographers
  • Planning Processes
  • Economics of Development I
  • Shaping Towns and Cities
  • Planning for a Better World
  • Research Skills
  • Political Geography
  • Economic Geography
  • Social and Cultural Geography
  • Urban Geography
  • Houses and Homes
  • Design & Neighbourhood
  • Researching Local Economies
  • Understanding Cities
  • Digital Civics
  • Urban Infrastructures: A Lens on the City
  • Global Course on Institutional Design for Spatial Planning
  • Dissertation
  • Chinese Cultural History and Urban Development
  • Climate Literacy: From philosophies to practice
  • Energy Geographies
  • Local and Regional Development
  • Mapping the City
  • Geographies of Race and Nation
  • Humanitarianism and Health Inequalities
  • Gender, Class and Religion
  • Geographies of Global South Cities
  • Geographies of Power and Resistance
  • Career Development for final year students
  • Strategies into Action: Planning
  • Development Management
  • Planning Theory and Politics
  • Study Abroad
  • Disasters, Monsters and Mess
  • Strategies Into Action: Urban Design