Spatial Planning PGDip

Our Spatial Planning PGDip gives you the academic and professional core knowledge, understanding and skills to enable you to practise professionally as a town and country planner.

Overview

Planning is about understanding places and placemaking. This ensures that we can achieve the best social, economic and environmental outcomes. We offer a friendly and supportive environment for you to make the transition towards a career in:

• planning
• wider built environment professions

Through our high-quality research and teaching we provide you with a complete planning education. You'll gain:

• academic core knowledge
• understanding
• skills

The course is a spatial planning conversion degree so you do not need to have studied planning before. It is for anyone with an interest in planning. The course attracts students from a range of backgrounds and nationalities.

Pathways are available in:

• conservation
• development
• global development
• green infrastructure and landscape planning
• regeneration

What you'll learn

The majority of the course consists of a series of compulsory modules. They will introduce you to the core values and principles of planning. You'll build on these throughout the rest of your studies and professional life. The main focus of these modules is the UK system complemented by international examples.

You'll also have a choice of optional modules. These help you to develop a specialisation in planning practice informed by the latest research.

Careers

This course equips you to embark on your professional planning career. You'll be able to apply your planning knowledge and deal with the rapidly changing context of real-world planning and problem solving this requires.

A 2:2 honours degree. International students need a qualification equal to a 2:1 honours degree. Your degree can be in any subject, but preference is given to graduates of a related discipline such as: planning; ; geography; urban studies; sociology; history; politics; economics; architecture; law; modern languages. Applicants who demonstrate significant knowledge and professional experience in UK town planning are welcome. We will consider your application if you have lower or non-standard qualifications and demonstrate aptitude for further study.