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  <UnitCode Applicant="Y" Label="Unit code" Student="Y">
    <Code>PLAN60832</Code>
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  <UnitTitle Applicant="Y" Label="Unit title" Student="Y">
    <Title>International Fieldtrip</Title>
  </UnitTitle>
  <MaxUnits Applicant="Y" Label="Credit rating" Student="Y">
    <Units>15</Units>
  </MaxUnits>
  <TeachingPeriods Applicant="Y" Label="Teaching period(s)" Student="Y">
    <Period>Semester 2</Period>
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  <AcademicCareer Applicant="Y" Label="Academic career" Student="Y">
    <Value>Postgraduate Taught</Value>
  </AcademicCareer>
  <UnitLevel Applicant="Y" Label="Unit level" Student="Y">
    <Level>Level 6</Level>
  </UnitLevel>
  <StaffList Applicant="Y" Label="Teaching staff" RoleLabel="Course Unit Role" Student="Y">
    <StaffMember>
      <Name>Andreas Schulze Baing</Name>
      <Role>Unit coordinator</Role>
    </StaffMember>
  </StaffList>
  <OfferedBy Applicant="Y" Label="Offered by" Student="Y">
    <OrganisationList>
      <Organisation>
        <OrgName>Planning, Property and Environmental Management</OrgName>
      </Organisation>
    </OrganisationList>
    <GroupList>
      <Group>
        <GroupName></GroupName>
      </Group>
    </GroupList>
    <FheqLevels>
      <FheqLevel>
        <LevelNumber>1</LevelNumber>
        <LevelName>FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' </LevelName>
      </FheqLevel>
    </FheqLevels>
    <Ects>
      <MaxUnits>European Credit Transfer &amp; Accumulation System Rating :   7.5</MaxUnits>
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  <MarketingOverview Applicant="Y" Label="Marketing Course unit overview" Student="">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;This module gives you the opportunity to study planning, development and regeneration in a international City.&amp;nbsp; You first learn about the broader institutional setting within a specific country (government structures and funding, policy context and regional development funding etc.) and the country specific context of your fieldtrip location.&lt;br/&gt;The main purpose of the module is a fieldtrip to a specific city – region, including:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;introduction to the local context of planning and development in the chosen country&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;academic lectures&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;practitioner led talks and presentations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;site visits and study tours&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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  <UnitOverview Applicant="" Label="Course unit overview" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;This module gives you the opportunity to study planning, development and regeneration in a international City.&amp;nbsp; You first learn about the broader institutional setting within a specific country (government structures and funding, policy context and regional development funding etc.) and the country specific context of your fieldtrip location.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The main purpose of the module is a fieldtrip to a specific city &amp;ndash; region, including:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;	&lt;li&gt;introduction to the local context of planning and development in the chosen country&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;academic lectures&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;practitioner led talks and presentations&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;site visits and study tour&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fieldtrip will be in Istanbul, Turkey.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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  <Aims Applicant="Y" Label="Aims" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;ul&gt;	&lt;li&gt;		To explore the nature and purpose of planning, development and regeneration via cross-national comparative perspectives to draw out transferable lessons on planning and development policy and practice.&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;		To develop the critical skills and logical reasoning to appraise different types of planning and property development procedures.&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;		To foster creative and credible thinking over responses to meet the challenges to planning and development under different international contexts.&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;		To review the operation of planning and development processes in another country outside the UK.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
  </Aims>
  <LearningOutcomes Applicant="Y" Label="Learning outcomes" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
  </LearningOutcomes>
  <Knowledge Applicant="Y" Label="Knowledge and understanding" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Have an understanding of how different planning and development systems are shaped by unique spatial contexts, judicial-legal frameworks and socio-cultural traditions; Be familiar with the principles, design and practice of planning and development systems in a different country; Appreciate the value of cross-national learning regarding both its potential and limitations while respecting the diversity of culture, values and ideologies of planning and development.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
  </Knowledge>
  <IntellectualSkills Applicant="Y" Label="Intellectual skills" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Have critical thinking and evaluation skills based on visiting a different city.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
  </IntellectualSkills>
  <PracticalSkills Applicant="Y" Label="Practical skills" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Have developed the skills of comparative analysis, logical reasoning, and applied evaluation through the fieldtrip and the assignments&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
  </PracticalSkills>
  <TransferableSkills Applicant="Y" Label="Transferable skills and personal qualities" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Working with professionals in practice.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
  </TransferableSkills>
  <EmployabilitySkillsList Applicant="Y" Label="Employability skills" Student="Y">
    <Skill>
      <SkillId>Group/team working</SkillId>
      <SkillDescription>Collaborate with others to develop a coherent group presentation</SkillDescription>
    </Skill>
  </EmployabilitySkillsList>
  <Syllabus Applicant="Y" Label="Syllabus" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
  </Syllabus>
  <TeachingMethods Applicant="Y" Label="Teaching and learning methods" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Lectures,&amp;nbsp;Group Presentation and Residential Fieldtrip&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
  </TeachingMethods>
  <AssessmentMethods Applicant="Y" Label="Assessment methods" Student="Y">
    <IntroText> </IntroText>
    <Method>
      <MethodId>2</MethodId>
      <MethodName>Written assignment (inc essay)</MethodName>
      <MethodWeight>85%</MethodWeight>
    </Method>
    <Method>
      <MethodId>7</MethodId>
      <MethodName>Oral assessment/presentation</MethodName>
      <MethodWeight>15%</MethodWeight>
    </Method>
    <OtherDescription>&lt;p&gt;Oral presentation on particular aspect of upcoming fieldtrip (10 minute group presentation): 15%&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Individual essay based on a critical reflection of issues related to the fieldtrip (2000 words): 85%&lt;/p&gt;</OtherDescription>
  </AssessmentMethods>
  <FeedbackMethods Applicant="Y" Label="Feedback methods" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Feedback for oral presentation provided immediately after the presentation, followed up during the fieldtrip.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Written feedback on individual essay provided at the end of unit.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
  </FeedbackMethods>
  <RequirementsList Applicant="Y" Label="Pre/co-requisites" Student="Y">
    <Requirement>
      <UnitCode></UnitCode>
      <UnitTitle></UnitTitle>
      <RequirementType></RequirementType>
      <Description></Description>
    </Requirement>
    <AdditionalRequirement></AdditionalRequirement>
  </RequirementsList>
  <AcademicPrograms Applicant="Y" Label="Academic programmes" Student="Y">
    <AcademicProgram>
      <Program></Program>
      <Plan></Plan>
      <Level></Level>
      <Requirement></Requirement>
    </AcademicProgram>
  </AcademicPrograms>
  <FreeChoice Applicant="Y" Label="Available as a free choice unit?" Student="Y">
    <Content>N</Content>
  </FreeChoice>
  <Accreditation Applicant="Y" Label="Accreditation" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
  </Accreditation>
  <RecommendedReading Applicant="Y" Label="Recommended reading" Student="Y">
    <Content>&lt;p&gt;D&amp;uuml;hr, S., Colomb, C. &amp;amp; Nadin, V. (2010) European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation. London: Routledge.&lt;br /&gt;Healy, P. &amp;amp; Upton, R. (2010) Crossing Borders: International exchange and planning practices. London: Routledge.&lt;br /&gt;Newman, P. &amp;amp; Thornley, A. (1996) Urban Planning in Europe. London: Routledge.&lt;br /&gt;Sanyal, Bishwapria, (ed.), (2005) Comparative Planning Cultures, Routledge, London.&lt;br /&gt;There are many relevant papers in the Journal of European Planning Studies available online @ &lt;a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ceps"&gt;http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ceps&lt;/a&gt; and the Journal of European Real Estate Research available online @ &lt;a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/jerer"&gt;http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/jerer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
  </RecommendedReading>
  <StudyHours Applicant="Y" Label="Study hours" Student="Y">
    <IntroText> </IntroText>
    <ScheduledHours Applicant="Y" Label="Scheduled activity hours" Student="Y">
      <ActivityHours>
        <ActivityType>Fieldwork</ActivityType>
        <Hours>40</Hours>
      </ActivityHours>
      <ActivityHours>
        <ActivityType>Lectures</ActivityType>
        <Hours>12</Hours>
      </ActivityHours>
    </ScheduledHours>
    <PlacementHours Applicant="Y" Label="Placement hours" Student="Y">
      <ActivityHours>
        <ActivityType></ActivityType>
        <Hours>0</Hours>
      </ActivityHours>
    </PlacementHours>
    <TotalHours Applicant="Y" Label="Independent study hours" Student="Y">
      <Hours>98</Hours>
    </TotalHours>
  </StudyHours>
  <Notes Applicant="Y" Label="Additional notes" Student="Y">
    <Content></Content>
  </Notes>
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