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Climate Change and the Built Environment – (M.Sc.)
Oxford Brookes University
Department of Planning
| Location: | Oxford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Climate change is arguably the most important issue facing society. The built environment has a major role to play in helping to move to a low-carbon economy and society, and in adapting to unavoidable climate change. Buildings and the way we use the built environment are responsible for over 50% of our energy use and carbon emissions.
This course aims to promote a shared interdisciplinary understanding among the built environment professions and users. You will explore the broader political issues in climate change policy, and look at ways of developing innovative and feasible solutions, working with communities, politicians and experts.
This course substantially draws on our existing research, professional practice and teaching in the field. Our expertise lies especially in the areas of energy-efficient architecture, sustainable planning and urban form, sustainable property management and investment, and sustainability and environmental appraisal.
Why Brookes?
* The course draws on the faculty's well-respected research, professional practice and teaching in the field.
* The Department of Planning hosts the highly regarded Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and a number of thriving research groups.
* Oxford is a globally recognised centre for research and activism in relation to climate change and the built environment, hosting the UK Climate Impacts Programme and community information exchange networks such as COIN.
Career prospects
Career opportunities will lie in the built environment professions, community groups, academia, policy-making and regulatory agencies, NGOs, the media and consultancy across the field of the built and natural built environments.
Contents
Course length
Full-time: MSc: 12 months, PGDip: 8 months, PGCert: 8 months
Part-time: MSc: 24 months, PGDip: 22 months
The master's course is offered over one year full-time (and two years part-time). Students will take the following compulsory modules.
* Climate Change: Policy and Progress in Mitigation and Adaptation (20 credits). This module reviews the nature and extent of policy responses to climate change, both in mitigating (reduction of the anthropogenic causes of climate change) and in adapting to climate change, looking at the science-policy interface and at issues of communication and understanding.
* Professional and Client Response to Climate Change in the Built Environment (20 credits). You will consider the core competencies in climate change now required by built environment professionals, and the barriers between knowledge, attitudes and behaviour, the institutional framework facilitiating implementation, and the importance of corporate responsiblity.
* Research Methods (10 credits). You will develop skills in the framing of research questions, the choice of appropriate methodologies, and approaches to analysis, in preparation for the dissertation.
* The MSc Dissertation (50 credits) provides an opportunity to research in more depth an aspect of climate change and the built environment, in a 15,000 word study.
The remaining four modules (80 credits) will be chosen from an array of options including:
* Environmental Management Systems
* Sustainable Built Environment: a Bioregional Approach
* Low-Carbon Building Technologies
* Delivering Sustainable Futures
* Development and Urbanisation
* Globalisation, Environment and Development
* Urban Design Issues
* Disasters: Risk, Vulnerabilities and Climate Change
* Urban Land Policy and Urban Management
* Strategic Environmental Assessment.
NB As courses are reviewed regularly, the module list you choose from may vary from that shown here.
Teaching, learning and assessment
Teaching and learning will include lectures, field visits, seminars, workshops, and independent study. Assessment will be largely through coursework.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Applications are invited from graduates and practitioners with a wide range of academic and practical backgrounds and an interest in developing their understanding of the built environment's response to climate change. Applicants are expected to have a 2:1 degree or its equivalent.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
The MSc is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) if combined with the PGDip in Spatial Planning.
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