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In conformity with Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) revised guidelines for professional planning education, the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at Queen’s is pleased to offer a new one calendar year intensive fast track Masters programme in Environmental Planning. The new course will deliver the initial professional knowledge and competency to enable graduates to become licentiate members of an exciting profession with a vision concerned with the design and making of places that are both sustainable and embody a high quality of life. In an increasingly multicultural and economically competitive world the delivery of such aspirations is not straightforward. Tasks such as facilitating social inclusion and laying a sound spatial planning basis for development through the mediation of the various interests involved in the creation of place requires the skill and involvement of the planner. The new course at Queen’s will be delivered in a strong planning research environment sensitive to the local context of the divided city of Belfast, Northern Ireland and Ireland as a whole but availing of strong research and practice links to the rest of the United Kingdom, Europe and North America.

The course, which is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute, is designed to take graduates from a broad range of disciplines and through an intensive programme of project work, lectures, seminars, study visits and supervised research, prepare them through a conversion process building on previous educational strengths, for a career in environmental planning. The programme of tuition is overseen by a professional Partnership Board of practitioners, academics and members of the Institute which ensures that the knowledge, skills and value awareness imparted during education and training are up-to-date and cutting edge. Whilst the course places special emphasis on planning in an Irish context, attention is also directed to transferable spatial competencies within a broad European context.

Entry to the MSc will normally require an undergraduate degree from an approved institution at a grade of 2.2 or above. Due to the high level of demand for the course it may be necessary at certain times to raise the entry standard to a 2.1. Typically entrants to the programme come from backgrounds in Geography, Sociology, Estate Management, Environmental Science, Architecture and Economics although recent entrants have included those with backgrounds in Arts and Humanities. Completed application forms must be received by the Admissions Office before 1st April each year. Normally provisional offers of places are made in May.

At the present time the School as one of the “fast track” RTPI accredited planning courses in the UK, holds eight annual bursaries funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. This is administered by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council. The scheme is of a short-term nature and funding availability should be checked on an annual basis. Applicants wanting to be considered for a bursary must provide official documentary evidence to the MSc Course Director of the overall average mark at undergraduate degree level. Awards are made on a competitive basis.

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In conformity with Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) revised guidelines for professional planning education, the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at Queen’s is pleased to offer a new one calendar year intensive fast track Masters programme in Environmental Planning. The new course will deliver the initial professional knowledge and competency to enable graduates to become licentiate members of an exciting profession with a vision concerned with the design and making of places that are both sustainable and embody a high quality of life. In an increasingly multicultural and economically competitive world the delivery of such aspirations is not straightforward. Tasks such as facilitating social inclusion and laying a sound spatial planning basis for development through the mediation of the various interests involved in the creation of place requires the skill and involvement of the planner. The new course at Queen’s will be delivered in a strong planning research environment sensitive to the local context of the divided city of Belfast, Northern Ireland and Ireland as a whole but availing of strong research and practice links to the rest of the United Kingdom, Europe and North America.
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Course Aims
The course, which is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute, is designed to take graduates from a broad range of disciplines and through an intensive programme of project work, lectures, seminars, study visits and supervised research, prepare them through a conversion process building on previous educational strengths, for a career in environmental planning. The programme of tuition is overseen by a professional Partnership Board of practitioners, academics and members of the Institute which ensures that the knowledge, skills and value awareness imparted during education and training are up-to-date and cutting edge. Whilst the course places special emphasis on planning in an Irish context, attention is also directed to transferable spatial competencies within a broad European context.
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Course Structure
Study is spread over three semesters involving 10 modules of varying credit weight (ie. CATS points) amounting to 180 credits in all.
	Semester 1
	• Introduction to Planning Theory and Practice	10 CATS
	• Environmental and Planning Governance	20 CATS
	• Planning Skills and Ethics	10 CATS
	• Mediating Space: Planning in an Irish Context	20 CATS
	Semester 2
	• Design in the Built Environment	10 CATS
	• International Spatial Planning	10 CATS
	• Creating Places: Development and Renewal	10 CATS
	• Community Planning in a Multicultural Society	10 CATS
	• Professional Practice Project	20 CATS
	Semester 3
	• Thesis/Work-based study on a specialist subject	60 CATS
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Entry Requirements and Selection Procedures
	Entry to the MSc will normally require an undergraduate degree from an approved institution at a grade of 2.2 or above. Due to the high level of demand for the course it may be necessary at certain times to raise the entry standard to a 2.1. Typically entrants to the programme come from backgrounds in Geography, Sociology, Estate Management, Environmental Science, Architecture and Economics although recent entrants have included those with backgrounds in Arts and Humanities. Completed application forms must be received by the Admissions Office before 1st April each year. Normally provisional offers of places are made in May.
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Financial Support
At the present time the School as one of the “fast track” RTPI accredited planning courses in the UK, holds eight annual bursaries funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. This is administered by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council. The scheme is of a short-term nature and funding availability should be checked on an annual basis. Applicants wanting to be considered for a bursary must provide official documentary evidence to the MSc Course Director of the overall average mark at undergraduate degree level. Awards are made on a competitive basis.