Health in Urban Development MSc

at University College London

Compulsory modules
 

•  Development and Planning Dissertation
•  Health, Social Justice and the City 1
•  Urban Health: Practice and Reflections
•  Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 1
•  Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 2
•  Health, Social Justice and the City 2

Optional modules
 

•  Post Disaster Recovery: Policies, Practices and Alternatives
•  Transforming Local Areas: Urban Design for Development
•  Building and Urban Design Practice
•  Development in Practice
•  Neo-Structuralism and the Developmental State
•  Society and Market: Private Agency for Development
•  Land Food and Agriculture
•  Critical Ideas of Development: Conceptions and Realities
•  Contemporary Approaches to Development Management
•  Practice in Urban Economic Development
•  Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Development
•  Sustainable Infrastructure and Services in Development
•  Urban Water and Sanitation, Planning and Politics
•  Food and the City
•  Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture: Knowledge Systems in the Global South
•  The City and its Relations: Context, Institutions and Actors in Urban Development Planning
•  Urban Development Policy, Planning and Management: Strategic Action in Theory and Practice
•  Practice in Urban Development Planning
•  Transport Equity and Urban Mobility
•  Social Policy and Citizenship
•  Social Development in Practice
•  An Introduction to Public Economics and Public Policy
•  Urban Health and Development Planning Strategies 1
•  Health, Social Justice and the City 2

A minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate subject (e.g. Planning, Architecture, Social Sciences, Geography, Health Studies, Civil Engineering) or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

English language requirements

If your education has not been conducted in the English language, you will be expected to demonstrate evidence of an adequate level of English proficiency.

The English language level for this programme is: Standard
 

• Standard level: Overall grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each of the subtests.

UK students
£16,500    

International students
£26,600    

Graduates of this programme are likely to find employment as officers of local and international NGOs, international organisations, local and national government departments or as consultants. Some graduates may pursue an academic research career.