Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning

Program of Study			Course cps
Core Units Complete the following units:			54 cps
Unit Code	Unit Title	Unit cps
GEPL322	Cradle to Grave: Population Geography	6
GEPL501	Economic Change and Urban Development	6
GEPL502	Architecture and Urban Design	6
GEPL516	Urban Living	6
GEPL520	Principles of Development Control	6
GEPL528	Advanced Planning Principles	6
GEPL535	Environmental Planning and Administration	6
GEPL545	Regional Development: Processes and Policies	6
GEPL550	Access and Mobility	6
Listed Units Complete 18 credit points from the following units:			18 cps
ARPA352/552	Public Archaeology and Management	6
ECON326	Benefit-Cost Analysis	6
ECON329	Environmental and Natural Resource Economics	6
EM311	Land Assessment for Sustainable Use	6
EM312	Environmental Impact Assessment	6
EM334/534	Introduction to GIS	6
ENGT237	Introduction to Environmental Engineering	6
GEPL306	Landscape Process	6
GEPL307	Climate Change and Future Planning	6
GEPL308	Environmental Change in Australia	6
GEPL309	Natural Hazards	6
GEPL311	Catchment to Coast	6
GEPL314	The Road to Riches? Development and Change in Asia	6
GEPL321/521	Population, Health and Environment	6
GEPL324	Rural Planning and Resource Management	6
GEPL338	Understanding Research	6
GEPL341/541	Environmental Biogeography	6
GEPL344/544	Leisure, Recreation and Tourism	6
GEPL352/552	Changing Communities: Development Planning	6
GEPL359	Introduction to Architectural Design	6
GEPL361	Retail Geography, Planning and Practice	6
GEPL370/570	Your Place or Mine? People and Power in Place	6
GEPL454	Special Reading Unit in Planning	6
GEPL455	Dissertation	12
GEPL538	Applied Research Methods	6
HIST335	Heritage Conservation	6
HIST556	Public History	6
NR331/531	Remote Sensing and Surveying	6
NR411	Natural Resource Policy and the Community	6
PHIL366/566	The Ethics of Environmentalism	6
RSNR301	Pollution Management	6
RSNR402	Integrated Water Resource Management	6
RSNR404	Project Management	6
SOCY313/513	Social Policy	6
Or from the following papers at Massey University: 132.732, 132.735, 132.738. For the purposes of this rule, each of the Massey University papers shall be deemed to be worth 12 credit points.
Total			72 cps

Suggested Full-Time Course Plan

The following are suggested patterns of enrolment or pathways for candidates studying on a full-time or part-time basis. They take into account unit pre-requisite, co-requisite and timetabling requirements. Candidates can each year choose to study less units than the full-time pattern or more units than the part-time pattern, but if doing so should use these suggested patterns as guides as to how best to structure their studies.

For candidates studying Full Time = 48 cps per year. 12-15 Hours of study per week should be allocated for each 6 cp unit enrolment.

Year	Trimester 1	Trimester 2
1	GEPL501	GEPL535
	GEPL520	GEPL502
	GEPL322	GEPL516
	GEPL545	GEPL550
2	GEPL528
	Listed Unit
	Listed Unit
	Listed Unit

Suggested Part-Time Course Plan

For candidates studying Part Time = 24 cps per year. 12-15 Hours of study per week should be allocated for each 6 cp unit enrolment.

For candidates commencing in Trimester 1

Year	Trimester 1	Trimester 2
1	GEPL501	GEPL535
1	GEPL520	GEPL502
2	GEPL322	GEPL516
2	GEPL545	GEPL550
3	GEPL528	Listed Unit
3	Listed Unit	Listed Unit

For candidates commencing in Trimester 2

Year	Trimester 1	Trimester 2
1		GEPL535
1		GEPL502
2	GEPL501	GEPL516
2	GEPL520	GEPL550
3	GEPL322	Listed Unit
3	GEPL545	Listed Unit
4	GEPL528
4	Listed Unit

For candidates commencing in Trimester 3

Year	Trimester 1	Trimester 2	Trimester 3
1			GEPL502
1			Listed Unit
2	GEPL501	GEPL535
2	GEPL520	GEPL516
3	GEPL322	GEPL550
3	GEPL545	Listed Unit
4	GEPL528
4	Listed Unit

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