Urban Regeneration and Community Development Foundation Degree

Urban Regeneration and Community Development: Foundation Degree

Course Option

Course Code B3-038

Start Date September 2010
Centre Clapham
Length of Course 2 Years
Course Mode Part time: 1 day & evening per week

Costs Fee payers Please ask
International Please ask
Status Open

Higher Education
About the course : The course primarily meets the needs of people wishing to pursue careers in urban regeneration and community development. It also provides a stimulating and wide ranging academic education. The course is supplemented by work-based learning throughout the year, including the summer period.

Course content :
Year 1
Core Skills
Social Policy & Welfare Community Development
Regeneration Policy & Practice
Working in Partnership
Understanding Organisations
In addition students apply their academic studies in their place of work through Work-based Learning Units: Organisation & Information Skills, Partnerships in Regeneration

Year 2
Core units:
The Role of Housing & Planning in Regeneration
Financing
Regeneration & Measuring Success
Project Management
Urban Regeneration Field Study
Visit Work-based Learning Units: Planning & Financing Regeneration Projects, Monitoring & Evaluation
There is a wide range of optional units

After this course : Students who successfully complete the Foundation Degree are eligible to continue at LSBU to take the final year of one of the following BA (Hons) degree courses - Urban and Environmental Planning; Housing Studies; Citizenship Studies; Social Policy.