The winter semester 2022 starts for all new Bachelor's students with the compulsory introductory phase, which includes the orientation phase, opens an external URL in a new window. In addition, the compulsory course Planning Theory and Planning Ethics, opens an external URL in a new window and Spatial Development Planning (Project 2), opens an external URL in a new window are offered. This semester, Project 2 deals with the small region Thaya-Taffa-Wild in the Weinviertel (Lower Austria).

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In the Master's programme, there are a number of compulsory courses from sociology: in the first semester, Methodology and Process Design, opens an external URL in a new window, Research and Planning Design, opens an external URL in a new window and Sociological Theories of City, Space and Planning, opens an external URL in a new window are offered. In the third Master's semester, the project Cultural Collisions, opens an external URL in a new window, the lecture exercise Qualitative Methods in Spatial Research and Planning, opens an external URL in a new window and the seminar Strategies for Sustainable and Resilient Spatial Development, opens an external URL in a new window take place.

The following elective courses are offered in the Master's programme:

Elective module 1

Transformation processes and steering approaches in metropolitan regions, opens an external URL in a new window

Managing urban transformation processes - Globalisation and the transformation of urban energy infrastructures in India, opens an external URL in a new window

European cities in a global context, opens an external URL in a new window

Strategic planning and city marketing, opens an external URL in a new window

Elective module 5

Community work, opens an external URL in a new window

Poverty, precarisation and socio-spatial inequality, opens an external URL in a new window

Transdisciplinary perspectives on New Social Housing, opens an external URL in a new window

Elective module 6

Evaluation as a spatial planning instrument, opens an external URL in a new window