Master specialisation: Urban and Cultural Geography

• Description

• Career Prospects

• Programme

• Examples of elective courses

• Contact

You can also download a flyer on this master specialisation.

Description

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!

Career Prospects

The master specialisation Urban and Cultural Geography prepares students for a professional career in government, semi-government, and business. It also provides a stepping stone towards a research career in academia or consultancy. You will be able to apply the scientific insights and the practical skills you have acquired to topics including the development and marketing of cities, multi-culturality and integration, innovative and creative urban milieus, urban identities, cultural industries.

This would qualify you for a whole range of different jobs. Some of you might find a job in a government agency, e.g. as city-manager, city marketeer, city planner, integration agent, city-network manager, PR- manager, etc. Others will end up in semi-government agencies such as development agencies, cultural planning agencies, but also research institutes, etc. Finally also private industry offers a number of opportunities for urban and cultural specialists. One might think of jobs such as event manager, museum director, city marketeer, consultant, journalist, innovation consultant, communication manager, media specialist, etc.

Programme

Course descriptions

For brief course descriptions click on course titles in the programme above.

Examples of elective courses

There is a sheer endless number of possible elective courses offered by our own department, offered by other disciplines within our faculty, offered by other faculties of the Radboud University, but also courses offered by other universities in the Netherlands or abroad, which could fit your personal research interests. You can explore and make suggestions yourself. The leaflet ‘preparing your master programme’ explains which criteria elective courses have to fulfil. Here are just a few examples:

• Multi-Cultural Society (Geography, RU)
• Globalising Cities and Hinterlands (specialisation: Globalisation, Migration and Development, RU)
• Space, Place and Society (Wageningen)
• Metropolitan governance and spatial planning (UvA)
• Social challenges for the city in a globalizing world (UvA)
• Culturele diversiteit (Utrecht)
• Social challenges for the city in a globalizing world (UvA)
• Leisure and Space in the Information Society (Tilburg)
• Thema: Cultuur, maatschappij en geschiedenis (Tilburg)
• Cities and neighbourhoods (Utrecht)
• Representeren van plaatsen; beelden en teksten (RUG)
• Making Places (RUG)
• Culture, Conflict and the City (Manchester)
• Popular Urban Cultures (Manchester)
• Urban Interventions (Helsinki)
• Urban Social Geography (Brussels)
• …

Contact

For more information please contact the study advisor: MSc. Jackie van de Walle (j.vandewalle@fm.ru.nl), Room TvA 3.1_38, telephone: +31-(0)24 - 361 60 49.

You can also download a flyer on this master specialisation.