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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
City CampusC
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
As part of this course, you’ll: - Understand contemporary and relevant critiques of the current housing sector - Explore topics within the context of housing studies, such as the ways different groups co-exist in urban areas, leadership, professional ethics, and tenants’ law - Be encouraged to enhance your learning by taking part in debates, contributing to research seminars, or helping out in partnership meetings with housing employers - Study modules with embedded professional development to enhance your employability - Learn from practising housing studies professionals, whose wide-ranging experience will inform your learning
ACCREDITATIONThis course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Housing.
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You’ll have the chance to support your learning and experience different urban and cultural environments on field trips. Working alongside students from other universities on joint fieldwork projects will enable you to develop your teamworking, communication, and planning skills.
Why study the BA Housing Studies course at Leeds Beckett University?- Validated by the Chartered Institute of Housing - Excellent placement opportunities - Part-time study available - Learn from practising housing professionals - Work on real-life projects and experience varied urban environments on field trips
Analyse your existing abilities, skills and knowledge by reflecting on your career to date, your aspirations and the relationship of study to work. You will have the opportunity to develop your learning and research skills, including referencing, writing, reading and note-taking. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Examine the origins and contemporary organisation of welfare policy. You will look at what government is trying to achieve through its policies, why it wants to achieve those aims and what the effects are on both tenants and housing organisations. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Learn to understand and develop notions and concepts relating to leadership in professional housing practice. You will link concepts of leadership and management to real world practice and benchmark against Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) ethics in the housing profession. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Examine the impact of global, national and local urban policies on the development of cities and how they are shaped both physically and environmentally. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Further develop your own reflective learning and make connections with learning and the roles of professionals in the workplace.Optional modules may also be available for this course.
This module introduces you to the essential legal aspects used by professionals in the built environment and is used as a foundation for modules in the following years. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Develop your ability to formulate policy or strategic solutions to problems associated with housing need. This includes the social problems associated with access to housing, and the implementation and assessment of strategies and policy initiatives within housing organisations, assessments of housing need, homelessness, supported housing and lettings. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Develop an understanding of the theoretical background to the carrying out of research and foster the practical skills to be able to carry out research in the social sciences using a number of different research methods. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Reflect on the arguments for and against spatial planning and discuss a range of theoretical approaches to the role of planning in different contexts. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Evaluate strategies for housing delivery and gain an understanding of the complex relationship between housing markets, economic policy and human wellbeing.Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Explore the importance of place and places in our everyday lives. You'll analyse existing built environments and review the urban design principles which can help create good quality sustainable places. You'll also evaluate the qualities of existing places and spaces and the work of key urban design theorists and practitioners. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Building on the knowledge you have gained during the Sustainable Places and City & Society modules, you will explore how changing complex urban problems are addressed in the UK and internationally through policy and practical responses. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Discover the multiple and frequently contested ways of understanding, representing and communicating social space and place. You will examine a number of key issues through the concept of the geographical imagination. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Make use of the research methods and techniques you have learned and the skills you have gained during your course to carry out a sustained piece of research and to write this up in the form of a clearly argued and coherently structured dissertation. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
Study key issues in housing delivery, delving behind public and private market interventions to examine the way housing problems are constructed and addressed. Optional modules may also be available for this course.
112 Grades/points required
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