Sustainable Cities

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules.You will normally take:

• MSc – modules totalling 180 credits
• MA – modules totalling 180 credits

If you are a part-time student, your course will take two years to complete. You will take a combination of required and optional modules over this period of time with the dissertation in your second year.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on this course page for updates.

Whether you are an MA or MSc student, you are required to take:

• Understanding the Sustainable City (20 credits)
• Governing the Sustainable City (20 credits)
• Dissertation in Sustainable Cities (60 credits)

MSc students are also required to take one module from the following modules:

• Practising Social Research (20 credits)
• Methods for Environmental Research (20 credits)

In addition, MSc students are required to take one module from the following modules:

• Understanding & Managing Urban Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems (20 credits)
• Advanced Quantitative & Spatial Methods in Human Geography (20 credits)

MA students are also required to take:

• Practising Social Research (20 credits)

If you are an MA student, you will take 40 credits (normally two modules) from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Theorising Cities: Inequalities & Difference (20 credits)
• Environmental Internship (20 credits)
• Environmental Actors and Politics (20 credits)
• Environment, Livelihoods & Development in the ‘South’ (20 credits)
• Globalisation & the Environment (40 credits)
• Disasters & Development (20 credits)
• Health, Lifestyles & Cities (20 credits)
• Environmental Science & Policymaking (20 credits)
• Community, Vulnerability & Disaster Risk (20 credits) (prerequisite: Disasters & Development either through taking the module fully or through auditing)
• Climate Change & Culture (20 credits)
• The Right to the City (20 credits)
• A Practical & Theoretical Evaluation of Sustainable Development (20 credits)

Whether you are an MA or MSc student, you will then select modules from the following options:

• Any Level 7 (Master’s) module offered by the Department of Geography, including those listed above.
• Up to 20 credits from Level 7 (Master’s)modules offered across the university, subject to approvals.