MA Programme “Urban Studies”

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Qualification: Master of Arts

Period of study: 2 years (120 credits)

 

The conception of the Programme is based on understanding that the urban space is the specific environment, consisting of structural and functional systems of life-activity and of social structures, which define individuality, specificity, senses and perspectives of a city space.  

The comparative analysis of the world urban development allows to define complex methods of management in an urban space, to make a SWOT analysis, to form conceptions and vectors of development, to make perspectives feasible, to create programmes of change management.

The programme includes three interdisciplinary modules:

1.     Planning and development of the urban space: traditions and innovations. This module is devoted to study the role of design, project work and reconstruction in the urban space, ecological and demographical issues in the urban development.

2.     Analytical activity in the urban management provide the detailed practices and methods of analysis of the urban space.

3.     Self-organization and development of the urban community: theory and practice. This module consolidates at a city as a self-developing system.

The MA “Urban Studies” is a practice-based programme, meaning a set of specializations, such as Reforming and management in the urban space, Expertise and consulting activities, Human technologies in the innovative urban development.

 

Module

Title

Semester

In-class hours

Independent work in hours

Credits

Lectures

Seminars

Theory and Methodology of Urban Studies

 

 

Foreign Language

1

-

72

174

6

Urban Law

1

12

24

72

З

Comparative Analysis of World Urban Processes

1

18

18

72

4

Contemporary Historical Problems of Urban Studies

1

18

18

72

4

Research Seminar in Urban Studies

1

18

18

108

4

Philosophy and Methodology of Science

2

12

24

72

З

History of provincial towns: issues of stagnation, anomie, renovation

1

12

24

72

3

Cultural and symbolic environment of an urban society

1

12

 

24

 

72

 

З

 

Traditions and innovations in planning and development of the urban space

Planning, design and reconstruction in urbanism

2

18

18

72

4

Social and demographic issues in the urban development

1

12

24

72

3

Urban ecology

2

12

24

36

3

History of life systems in cities 

2

12

24

36

3

Economy in the state and municipal sector

1

12

24

72

3

Social and economic development of the cities in the South Russia and projects of modernization

1

12

24

72

3

Research seminar

Analysis of the city management

2

18

18

108

5

IT in Historical Urban Studies

2

12

24

72

3

Archeological methods and tools in Urban Studies

2

12

24

72

3

Sociological methods in Urban Studies

2

12

24

72

3

Historical and geographical methods in Urban Studies

2

12

24

72

3

 

Practice

2

6 weeks

9

Self-organization and development of the urban community

Theory and Practice of self-organization and development of the urban society

3

18

18

72

4

Municipality: legal aspects

3

12

24

108

4

Urban historical tourism and state-private cooperation in the cultural heritage management

3

12

24

108

4

City as a social environment: issues and practices

3

12

24

72

4

Development and balance of the individual and social in the urban environment

3

12

24

72

4

Historical Heritage management

3

12

24

72

4

Documentation maintenance in the municipal management

3

12

24

72

4

Academic writing in Urban Studies (workshop)

3

12

24

108

4

Cultural anthropology of urbanism

3

12

24

108

4