MSc Local Economic Development

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units as shown and a dissertation.

Paper

Course number and title

1

GY404 

Topics in Local Economic Development (H)

2

GY407

Globalisation, Regional Development and Policy or

GY408

Local Economic Development and Policy

3

Courses to the value of 1.5 units from the following list:
Students will normally choose a further course from those listed under paper 2 (above) or any of the related half-unit courses (GY409 or GY413 - half units of GY407; GY410 or GY415 - half units of GY408).
Students are not permitted to combine GY409 and GY413 and they are not permitted to combine GY410 and GY415.

 

EU434

The Political Economy of Southeast Europe (H)

EU439

Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (H)

 

GI418

Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction (H)

GY420

Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy

GY428

Applied Quantitative Methods (H)

GY431

Cities, People and Poverty in the South (H)

GY438

Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H)

GY445

Urban Theory, Policy and Practice in the Global South

GY447

The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning (H)

GY460

Techniques of Spatial Economic Analysis (H)

GY465

Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H)

GY475

Issues in Environmental Governance (H)

GY480

Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (H)

MY452

Applied Regression Analysis (H)

 

A relevant course from another programme

4

GY499

Dissertation