Default track: VUB-ULB
The 120 ECTS curriculum combines the attractiveness of a flexible, modular and interdisciplinary programme that allows you to focus on your own interests within the domain of urban studies, with a common core of compulsory courses to ensure that you develop the necessary urban skills and competences.
Please check our dedicated website for detailed information: http://www.masterurbanstudies.eu.
Master of Science in Urban Studies
Common Core
ECTS credits
Global Urban Studies
6 ECTS
StadsSalonsUrbains
3 ECTS
Brussels, reading the city
5 ECTS
Project Seminar in Applied Urban Research
8 ECTS
Urban History
6 ECTS
Greening the City
6 ECTS
Research Design in Urban Studies
5 ECTS
Excursion
4 ECTS
Urban Political Economy
5 ECTS
Urban Analysis
5 ECTS
Master Thesis
30 ECTS
Electives
ECTS credits
Choose 7 ECTS credits in year 1 and 30 ECTS credits in year 2 of your curriculum.
Land Use Planning and Growth Management
6 ECTS
Design Studio
15 ECTS
Theory of Urban Planning and Design
3 ECTS
Projet d'architecture 4.11 : UN - Urban Nature
10 ECTS
Sustainable Urban Design Studio
8 ECTS
Atelier Urbanisme - Bruxelles
10 ECTS
Internship
15 ECTS
Advanced Seminar in Urban Studies
3 ECTS
Advanced Seminar in Urban Studies
6 ECTS
Urban Sustainability and Circular Economy
5 ECTS
Criminological encounters
6 ECTS
Landscape Urbanism
3 ECTS
Introduction to GIS
3 ECTS
Decision Support for Sustainability
6 ECTS
History of Urban Design
3 ECTS
Design Project Competition
4 ECTS
Sociologie des mobilités
5 ECTS
Mobility planning
3 ECTS
European Social and Population Issues
6 ECTS
Migration and the Multicultural Society
6 ECTS
Global Population Issues and Urban Sociology
6 ECTS
Crime & the City
9 ECTS
Circular Economy
5 ECTS
Social Innovation
5 ECTS
Socio-environmental dynamics
5 ECTS
Geography of transport and location of economic activities
5 ECTS
Migrant Integration Policies in Europe
5 ECTS
Social and Cultural Tourism Issues
5 ECTS
Geomarketing and business location
5 ECTS
Economic and Financial Geography
6 ECTS
Housing
3 ECTS
Post-war History of Construction and Architecture
4 ECTS
Theory of Architecture and Urbanism
4 ECTS
Sustainable Mobility and Logistics - EUTOPIA Learning Unit
6 ECTS
Infrastructure and mobility
5 ECTS
Total number of ECTS
120