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The Master of Regional and Urban Planning programme is a two-year professional planning programme, providing graduates with the requisite skills and knowledge to begin a career as a professional planner, with specialisation in either development and design or environmental planning. The MRUP is aimed at providing an integrated and inclusive understanding of the challenges required to create places that combine environmental quality, with a vibrant economy, good quality of life and distributive justice. The programme is underpinned by a critical and questioning approach aimed at equipping our students with intellectual confidence and the professional and ethical judgement to make decisions, which promote and ensure sustainable spatial development and manage environmental change. The programme fosters a learning environment that draws on the research and expertise of our academic staff, combined with insights from innovative practitioners in the planning, development and environmental field. Uniquely, we can draw on our location in Dublin and Ireland to reflect on the challenges of a rapidly developing vibrant city and modern economy set in an unsurpassed natural environment. The MRUP utilises a mix of lectures, hands on computer lab based work, group projects in a studio setting, regular student presentations, independent research and academic and professional writing, to provide graduates with the requisite skills and knowledge needed in the rapidly changing global environment facing planning. Also there is potential in year 2 (based on competitive selection process) for 1 semester exchange with the Master in Urban Planning Program at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Module ID | Module Title | Trimester | Credits |
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PLAN40020 | Placemaking: Urban and Rural Design | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40030 | Planning, Society and Diversity | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40050 | Transport, Environment & Sustainability | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40220 | Geographical Information Systems for Policy and Planning | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40330 | Research Design & Methods | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40340 | Planning, Environ & Public Pol | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40010 | Planning Methodology | Spring | 5 |
PLAN40040 | Rural & Landscape Planning | Spring | 5 |
PLAN40070 | Housing Policy and Planning | Spring | 5 |
PLAN40140 | Urban Design Studio | Spring | 10 |
PLAN40540 | Planning Law | Spring | 5 |
PLAN40060 | Urban and Regional Development | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40080 | Economic and Property Markets | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40090 | Leadership, Project and Development Management | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40160 | Planning Studio: Plan Making | Autumn | 10 |
PLAN40230 | Governing Nature | Autumn | 5 |
PLAN40390 | Sustainable Cities | Spring | 10 |
PLAN40290 | Capstone Research Project | Spring | 20 |
PLAN40420 | Planning Pract Internshp 20crs | Spring | 20 |
Award | GPA | ||||
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Programme | Module Weightings | Rule Description | Description | ||
MTHSC010 | Stage 2 - 50.00% Stage 1 - 50.00% |
Standard Honours Award | First Class Honours | 3.68 |
4.20 |
Second Class Honours, Grade 1 | 3.08 |
3.67 |
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Second Class Honours, Grade 2 | 2.48 |
3.07 |
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Pass | 2.00 |
2.47 |