Course Overview

The Rural Planning III (fieldwork & studio) course is designed for providing field experience to the fourth year students on rural development theories and policy options.

Course Objectives

The students will enhance his/her capacity to analyze theories and policy options on rural non-farm sector, rural employment, women empowerment, rural power structure, rural-urban linkage  and rural livelihood by using the field experiences. Students of this course are expected to identify the theoretical concepts in the field. This course will be conducted simultaneously with its theoretical counterpart URP 4111. Students of this course are expected to apply the acquired theoretical knowledge from URP 4111.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

After completing the module students are expected to be able to:

·       Apply quantitative and qualitative methods to explore rural problems and economic, social, cultural and political dynamics in rural area;

·       Write rural development survey reports;

·       Analyse rural development policies and strategies by applying different lenses;

·       Analyse rural employment, performance of rural non-farm sector, status of women empowerment, rural-urban linkages, rural power structure and rural livelihood in the context of Bangladesh.

Course Overview

The course is designed in a way that upon completion of the course student will learn the policy issues and basic concepts related to climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience.

Course Objectives

Students of this course are expected to learn and understand the issues related to climate adaptive planning. This course has been designed in such a way which provides a clear understanding of different policy issues related to climate change mitigation and adaptation. This course also provides a clear understanding on different concepts related to climate change mitigation, adaptation and community resilience. 

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

After completing the module students are expected to be able to:

·       Develop basic understanding on climate change adaptation, mitigation and resilience;

·       Understand different spatial or city planning approaches to climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience;

·       Think critically about values threshold and governance in adaptation to climate change;

·       Understand interrelationship between climate change and assets and how asset planning impacts on urban poor’s adaptation to climate change;

·       Develop pro-poor adaptation framework for integrated settlement development.

Course Overview

The course is designed for the fourth year students of Urban and Rural Planning Discipline. Students of this course are expected to identify the theoretical concepts in the field. This course will be conducted simultaneously with its theoretical counterpart URP 4121. Students of this course are expected to apply the acquired theoretical knowledge from URP 4121.

Course Objectives

The course will help students to gain understanding and knowledge in:

·       Survey mechanisms and analysis of municipal services

·       Different software for demand forecasting and network design

·       Model formulation for sitting services

·       Locational analysis and project design

·       Evaluation of service provision 

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

At the end of the course the students will be able to:

·       Sketch service delivery mechanism and critique the existing planning system;

·       Solve problems of inefficiency in planning and delivery of services;

·       Appraise the alternative proposals for sitting services;

·       Select the effective stakeholder engagement strategy for conflict resolution.

Course Overview

The course is designed for fourth year students. Students of this course are expected to develop research proposal on their field of specialisation.

Course Objectives

The objective of the course is to develop the students’ ability to design and present a theoretically-informed research proposal related to a particular policy issue arising from a course or multiple courses of Urban and Rural Planning Discipline. The students will be assessed on two types of output and on some aspects of the process leading to these outputs:

·       We expect the students to write a complete research proposal

·       The students will also be assessed on the quality of public presentations of their argument and on their ability to answer the questions asked by jury members.

·       Among the process aspects the supervisors as well, coordinator of this course can usefully distinguish between aspects of the student’s learning attitude (commitment, independence, punctuality) and the significance of his/her learning process, i.e. the difference between the initial and the final understanding of the issue(s) each student has inquired into.  

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

On the completion of this course, students are expected to be able to:

·       Identify a good research topic/problem in urban and rural planning field;

·       Formulate research questions and also assess its significance in relation to relevant scholarly literatures;

·       Develop conceptual/theoretical framework to analyse empirical evidences;

·       Identify philosophical worldviews and define basic ideas of that worldview;

·       Understand how the worldview shaped their approach to research; 

·        Design research methodology and detailed data collection and analysis methods;

·       Develop competency in framing, timetabling and development of a research proposal;

·       Develop skill to successfully communicate research proposal