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Compulsory modules

Global Challenges: A Planet in Crisis 

Explore interrelated global issues confronting the planet and humanity today. Delve into human geography, physical geography, and environmental science perspectives surrounding key challenges. Develop the ability to critically analyse and discuss these challenges using academic literature. 

Introductory Economics for Business and Finance 

Understand how businesses are affected by developments in specific markets, as well as by changes at the level of the entire economy. You'll analyse forces of supply and demand in the determination of prices and the economics of consumer behaviour,  the characteristics and variability in economic output and profit under different forms of competition, the methods for calculating national income for closed and open economies, and determinants of business cycles and economic effects, interactions and policies connected to inflation, unemployment, interest rates and foreign exchange rates.

Property, Law, Rights and Institutions

Examine the legal and conceptual basis of property and the legal, institutional, and stakeholder aspects of land, property and property rights. Consider what is involved and understood by the label 'property rights', how the planning system and related institutions operate, the repercussions for different stakeholders, and the fundamental principles of land law governing the ownership, use and enjoyment of property as relevant to real estate professionals.

Geographical Imaginaries

Understand how geographical knowledge and methods have changed over time and how these changes are crucial to understanding how and why we do geography today. Recognise how geographical knowledge will evolve in response to changing social, environmental and technological needs and opportunities. 

Contemporary Issues in Real Estate and Planning

Develop an understanding of the local, national and global challenges and potential solutions directly and indirectly affected by the real estate industry and planning system, as well as the diversity of stakeholders involved. You'll critically reflect on aspects such as climate change, housing quality, affordability, future ways of working and building, and growing inequality.

Ethics and Sustainable Development 

Explore the human and non-human considerations of sustainable development goals and implications for responsible business practices in real estate and planning, including urban and architectural design, development, construction, operation, refurbishment, retrofitting, and regeneration. 

These are the modules that we currently offer for 2026/27 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods. 

Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them. 

You can also register your details with us to receive information about your course of interest and study and life at the 黑瓜吃料网.

Compulsory modules

Real Estate and Urban Economics 

Use basic economic principles and models to analyse urban dynamics and property markets. You'll develop a foundational understanding of economic forces shaping urban growth and land use allocation within cities, equilibrium adjustment processes in demand and supply of real estate, and broader perspectives for the analysis of real estate markets.

Skills Training and Project Design

Develop professional skills, including research approaches, project management, career awareness and employability. Work closely with an academic mentor to carry out carefully planned and highly professional research, act as consultants, designing, executing and reporting on a research project. 

Geography and Planning Field Class

This module will train you in data collection, analysis and interpretation and will enhance your knowledge and understanding of field investigation methods used in the geography and planning disciplines. There is a strong emphasis on authentic, ‘real world’ issues that affect society and the design and function of the environment, including the implications of planning decisions across rural and built environments.

Planning Theory and Practice

Discover the theory and practice of spatial planning, and its interrelationship with the development of real estate. You'll study a range of contemporary issues and tools for planning implementation, including addressing climate change and sustainability, the role of plan-making, and how planning shapes different built and natural environments.

Encountering Political Geographies 

Find the geopolitical in unexpected spaces, place the spotlight on the bedroom as much as the battlefield; the body as much as the border; the school as much as the state. Think critically about the geopolitical world, challenge and resist dominant ideas, develop multiple ways of seeing, engaging, and being.  

Optional modules

Geographical Information Systems 

Discover the principles, techniques, and applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Work with the storage and management of spatial data, setting coordinate systems and projections, spatial analysis, and geoprocessing, creating and editing data, and cartography and symbology.  

Analysing Social Data: Techniques and Applications 

Analyse social data using quantitative and qualitative methods to foster persuasive communication and comprehensive illustrations of your understanding. Become a well-informed, confident, and discerning users of social data.

These are the modules that we currently offer for 2026/27 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods. 

Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them. 

You can also register your details with us to receive information about your course of interest and study and life at the 黑瓜吃料网. 

Compulsory modules

Dissertation

Conduct a substantial research study on a topic of relevance to planning, supported by your dissertation supervisor.

Real Estate Development Process 

Gain an understanding of models of the real estate development process, the nature of real estate development projects, patterns in real estate development, the operation of development land markets, the structure of the real estate development sector, the delivery of real estate development projects, the risks involved in real estate development and the role of different institutions and agents in the development process. 

Optional modules 

Urban Design in the Development Process 

Examine the core principles of urban design and its role in the development process. You'll consider academic debates and policy challenges surrounding the practice of urban design, its contemporary relevance or value to real estate development and place-making, and the practice of urban design where it concerns both the creation and maintenance of places as part of sustainability transitions and/or regeneration processes toward more resilient futures. 

Work-Based Learning 

Undertake a four-week work placement (as a minimum) to reflect on professional practice in the workplace, develop your skills and competencies, explore your future career options, and extend the knowledge gained throughout your studies.

Cities in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective

It is predicted that by 2050, cities will be home to around 70% of the world’s population. Knowing the impacts ongoing changes have and will continue to have on urban inhabitants globally remains a significant focus for both academics and policymakers. Explore the challenges and opportunities of living, working and travelling within cities in the 21st Century, and gain real-world insight into the contemporary issues shaping and reshaping city spaces worldwide.

Anthropology of Heritage and Cultural Property 

Explore how heritage is an important global industry for tourism and heritage site conservation. You’ll discover the historical development of concepts, politics, and legal claims on heritage and cultural property in the contemporary world. 

Consumption, Politics and Space 

Appreciate the broad theoretical and empirical links between geography, consumption, media and the politics of sustainability and sustainable behaviour change. Develop a critical understanding of the cultural and geographical politics of contemporary society through the mediatised framings of environmental and social problems and solutions.  

Geography and Environmental Science Field Class 

Exploring the theme of ‘society and the environment’, this UK-based field class will provide a fully integrated understanding of human and physical processes – with an emphasis on authentic, real world issues. You'll examine the geographical and environmental issues that affect our society, while gaining experience in the collection, analysis and interpretation of field data.

Reimagining Development in Africa 

Explore how Africa’s history and current realities shape its future, from colonial legacies to innovative technological changes, through real-world case studies and interactive learning. Dive into pressing issues like urbanisation, food security and environmental sustainability while examining the roles of gender, youth and diaspora communities in driving development.  

Deathscapes and Dark Tourism 

Explore and understand the geographies associated with death, loss and remembrance. Understand the impact of death and remembrance practices on the landscape and environment, including how these change over time, may be contested and require management and planning in the light of multicultural and sustainability agenda. 

Climate Change and the Geographies of Responsibility 

Analyse and discuss the role of businesses in mitigating climate change. Build practical skills relating to corporate carbon accounting and disclosure. Critically engage with corporate climate activities, including carbon reduction claims, science-based climate targets and carbon offsets. 

Spaces of Care and Wellbeing 

Develop your knowledge and understanding of key theoretical approaches to geographies of care and wellbeing and how these may be applied using participatory methods to diverse spaces in the local community and globally. Engage with practitioners working with refugees, people experiencing loneliness and other marginalised groups in 黑瓜吃料网. 

These are the modules that we currently offer for 2026/27 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods. 

Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them. 

You can also register your details with us to receive information about your course of interest and study and life at the 黑瓜吃料网. 

Compulsory modules

Planning 1: Policy, Theory and Governance 

Learn the process of preparing a policy framework. You’ll also explore the application of planning theory and understand how this might influence the plan-making process.

Development 1: Sustainable Urban Design and Site Planning 

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Optional modules

Planning 2: Law, Negotiation and Ethics Development 2: Process and Viability 

Analyse a site-specific scenario, assessing it within the context of planning law, regulation and policy and exploring its implications for different stakeholders. You’ll gain knowledge around professionalism, ethics, planning law, negotiation and judgement, complemented by guest lectures addressing contemporary issues in spatial planning.

Quantitative Analysis of Data in Environmental Science 

Explore commonly used statistical and graphical techniques for environmental data analysis. Acquire the skills to interpret and apply outputs from both classic and modern statistical methods using Minitab, along with freely-available remote-sensing toolboxes.

Environmental and Waste Management 

Examine how environmental and waste management are applied in professional settings and understand motivations for businesses and organisations. You’ll study environmental impact assessments and explore systems for minimizing environmental issues.

Environmental and Resource Economics 

Acquire a foundation in resource and environmental economics, and the essential tools to apply economic principles to real-world challenges at the intersection of people, the economy, and the natural environment.

Ecosystem Services and Nature-Based Solutions 

Discover the role of ecosystem services, their consumption, management, and conservation, and explore nature-based solutions. Our researchers will share cutting edge information and knowledge and introduce you to case studies on the topic.

Environmental Planning and Policy 

Gain an understanding of the range of issues and tools deployed to address environmental planning challenges using a blend of theory and practice-based examples.

Heritage and Development 

Learn about the significance of historic buildings and sites as part of the built environment. Many will be hundreds of years old, but there are also more modern buildings considered as heritage. The construction industry’s work is evenly split between new-build and work to existing buildings, some of which will have some statutory protection, such as being listed.

Comparative International Planning 

Compare planning practices and systems worldwide and draw lessons from such comparisons. You’ll learn to appreciate and critique different systems of planning as well as compare planning systems.

Sustainability and Real Estate 

Gain a conceptual understanding of sustainable development principles and their applications in real estate markets. You’ll focus on the adoption of sustainability and environmental, social and governance principles in the UK property industry throughout real estate life cycles, including how this is relevant to and manifests itself at various life cycle stages.

Housing Markets and Policy

Develop an awareness of the economic principles that underpin residential property markets and relevant government policies. You’ll learn how housing markets affect almost everything, including financial market stability, wealth inequalities, national productivity, and rates of childbirth.

Urban Regeneration

Focus on the relationship between the economic, social, environmental and political forces shaping approaches to urban regeneration. You’ll gain an overview of the evolution of urban regeneration policy and practice, particularly in the UK context.

These are the modules that we currently offer for 2026/27 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods. 

Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them. 

You can also register your details with us to receive information about your course of interest and study and life at the 黑瓜吃料网.