Article B.6.2 Transitional provisions
These Regulations replace all earlier versions. Notwithstanding the current Teaching and Examination
Regulations, the following transitional provisions apply for students who started the programme under
a previous set of Teaching and Examination Regulations:
For students who started their master programme before 1 September 2015, the following applies:
As of 1 September 2015, the master Human Geography is divided in four tracks: Urban Geography,
Economic Geography, Environmental Geography and Political Geography. Students who started the
previous academic curriculum are offered a transitional programme based upon to the programme
components of 2014-2015. The transitional programme is valid for the academic year 2015-2016.
General compulsory programme components
Name of unit of study
Unit of study code
Human Geography: Theory and social implications
735410010Y
=> 735420003Y
=> 735420021Y
735410045Y
=> 735420001Y
736410070Y
=> 735420021Y
735410200Y
=> 735420002Y
=> 735420022Y
GEO Thesis Seminar
GEO Literature Course
Geographical research methods and GIS
GEO Research Methods & Techniques
Literature course
GEO Literature course
Master thesis project Human Geography
GEO Research Proposal
GEO Master thesis Project
Number
of credits
6
3
3
9
9
3
3
24
3
21
Semester,
period
S2, P4
S2, P6
S2, P4
S1, P2+3
S1, P1+2
S1, P3
S2, P4
S2, P4-6
S2, P4
S2, P5-6
Electives
The student have to choose a study load of 18 ECTS.
- Students who still require 18 ECTS, need to complete one full Track Core Course and 50% of
another Track Core Course (to be determined by the course coordinator)
- Students who still require 12 ECTS, need to complete one full Track Core Course*
- Students who still require 6 ECTS, need to complete 50% of one Track Core Courses
(to be determined by the course coordinator)*
* In these cases students are not allowed to select the course unit from column A, if they have already
successfully completed the equivalent course in column D:
A
Name of unit of study
from 1/9/2015
Advanced Economic Geography: Global
Production Networks & Clusters (12 EC)
Advanced Environmental Geography:
Governance for Sustainability (12 EC)
B
Unit of study
code
735420011Y
C
&
735420012Y
&
Advanced Political Geography:
Geopolitics, Globalisation & Governance
(12 EC)
735420013Y
&
Advanced Urban Geography:
Global and Local Perspectives on Cities
(12 EC)
735420014Y
&
&
D
Name of unit of study
before 1/9/2015
Globalisation, Cities
and Networks (6 EC)
Governance of
Commons, Resources
and Environmental
Conflict (6 EC)
Territories, Identities
and Conflict in a
changing world order
(6 EC)
Social challenges in
cities (6 EC)
E
Unit of study
code
735410025Y
735410040Y
735410030Y
735410020Y