Course summary

• Explore key planning issues at a global, national and local scale.
• Adapt the course to meet your academic interests and career aspirations.
• Gain core knowledge and skills for contemporary planning practice.
• Learn with academic and professional practitioners.
• Create a professional profile to kickstart your career

Understand how our cities and neighbourhoods are developed and gain the relevant skills to shape their future. Accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), this course provides an adaptable approach to learning with a range of specialisms to explore. Choose from environmental planning, urban design & development, planning for housing, historic environment, transport & infrastructure or economic development.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

The course explores the relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge through our dynamic approach to teaching. You’ll develop your skills as an independent, critical and reflective learner through a range of professional learning experiences. You’ll benefit from a mix of face-to-face lessons and online tutorials. Not only does our virtual learning platform help you interact with course material and other students – it also gives you the skills you need to operate as a contemporary planning professional.

Your course can span either two or three years with the third year focussing on your dissertation if you take this route.

You learn through

• seminars
• workshops
• gateway talks and lectures
• individual and group tasks
• virtual fieldwork
• case study analysis
• real-life planning scenarios
• online learning platforms

 Future careers

Planners are employed across a range of private consultancies and public sector roles. They contribute to wider policy development, campaign bodies and pressure groups.

A planning qualification can open opportunities in

• strategic planning and policy development
• regeneration
• development implementation and management
• environmental protection
• infrastructure planning
• transport and accessibility planning
• housing planning, development and delivery
• economic development
• health planning
• heritage and historic environment
• waste, energy and minerals planning

Accreditation

This course is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Modules

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.

• Applied Research Methods
• Environment & Infrastructure
• Housing Planning And Development
• Major Research Project
• Planning And Growth
• Planning Theory And Context
• Policies For Space And Place
• Shaping Places
• Sustainable Master Planning

* Scholarships available for international students.