Urban Studies, MSc by Research 12 months Postgraduate Programme By Swansea University |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

23,050 GBPTuition Fee/year

Starting Month

Jan, Oct, AprStarting Month

Programme overview

Main Subject

Urban Planning

Degree

MScr

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Start date: MSc by Research - 1st October, 1st January, 1st April & 1st July.

The MSc by Research in Urban Studies allows you to undertake a year-long (full time) or two-year-long (part-time) individual programme of personally and professionally enriching research, supervised by our Human Geography academic staff.

Your urban studies research project will be shaped by participation in research activities such as seminars and reading groups, as well as your involvement in one of our established Human Geography research groups.

The range of our current human geographical research in urban studies includes:

  • Global cities
  • World cities
  • Global urban networks
  • Poststructuralism, actor-network theory, assemblage theory and the city
  • Psychoanalytic urban geographies
  • The political economy and cultural political economy of cities
  • Urban geographies of violence
  • Modernity, Postmodernity and the city
  • Alternative Urban theories

Programme overview

Main Subject

Urban Planning

Degree

MScr

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Start date: MSc by Research - 1st October, 1st January, 1st April & 1st July.

The MSc by Research in Urban Studies allows you to undertake a year-long (full time) or two-year-long (part-time) individual programme of personally and professionally enriching research, supervised by our Human Geography academic staff.

Your urban studies research project will be shaped by participation in research activities such as seminars and reading groups, as well as your involvement in one of our established Human Geography research groups.

The range of our current human geographical research in urban studies includes:

  • Global cities
  • World cities
  • Global urban networks
  • Poststructuralism, actor-network theory, assemblage theory and the city
  • Psychoanalytic urban geographies
  • The political economy and cultural political economy of cities
  • Urban geographies of violence
  • Modernity, Postmodernity and the city
  • Alternative Urban theories

Admission Requirements

6.5+
3.3+
Applicants for MSc by Research must normally hold an undergraduate degree at 2.1 level (or Non-UK equivalent as defined by Swansea University).

1 Year
Jan
Oct

  • Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance

Tuition fees

Domestic
5,238 GBP
International
23,050 GBP

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