Urban and Cultural Geography
Master
Cities are centres of society and are creative as well as conflictual places for divergent communities. We focus on how actors create, perform and experience the urban space and how they use it.
Cities are the vibrant and dynamic focal points of today's society. These diverse agglomerations of people, companies and organisations are both locations for innovation and for conflict. Cities are regarded as creative places as well as conflictual places for divergent communities. In this master specialisation you will study how different actors influence the physical form of cities but also the way in which they present and understand the character and identity of cities and how they make use of the typical urban environment in their daily activities. They create and make cities!
In this master specialisation, we focus especially on the different aspects of culture as a motor for urban development. We do so by engaging practically with cities at home and abroad through empirical research.
This qualifies you for jobs like city-manager, city marketeer, city planner, integration agent, city-network manager, etc.
The Master's in Urban and Cultural Geography is a specialisation of the Master's programme in Human Geography.
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English
Title
Master of Science
Duration
1 year
ECTS credits
ECTS
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is a student-centred system based on the student workload required to achieve the objectives of a programme of study. Its aim is to facilitate the recognition of study periods undertaken by mobile students through the transfer of credits. The ECTS is based on the principle that 60 credits are equivalent to the workload of full-time student during one academic year.
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Numerus Fixus
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Without numerus fixus.
Tuition fee 2024/2025
EU/EEA
The EU/EEA rate is the regular fee for students from within the EU/EEA.
€ 2,530
Admission
Application requirements
In order to get admission to this Master's you will need a completed Bachelor's degree from a geography related discipline, such as Urban/Spatial Planning, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, etc.
Unless the requirements at http://www.ru.nl/opleidingen/master/urban-and-cultural-geography/admission/ are met, a language test is required: A TOEFL score of ≥90, with subscores not lower than 18; A IELTS score of ≥6.5, with subscores not lower than 6.0; Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) or Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) with a mark of C or higher.
Language requirements
- C1
- Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English
- 6.5
- IELTS overall band
- 90
- TOEFL internet based
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