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POLIS (M.A. in European Urban Cultures)
Profiles: Belgium
Joint Master’s degree of the Universities of Brussels, Tilburg, Manchester and Helsinki
Free University Brussels
Research team COSMOPOLIS-City, Culture & Society
Room 6 F 332
Pleinlaan
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
Contact: Prof. Dr Eric Corijn
Phone: +32 2 629 3379
Fax: + 32 2 629 3378
E-mail: eacorijn@vub.ac.be
Web site: www.mmu.ac.uk/h-ss/sis/eurma.htm
Background, orientation and purpose
The M.A. European Urban Cultures (MA EUC) is a full-time, postgraduate degree, established in 1997,
jointly developed by four European universities:
the Catholic University of Brabant, Tilburg (Netherlands);
the Flemish Free University of Brussels (Belgium);
Helsinki University of Art and Design (Finland); and
the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).
Programme(s) and qualification(s)
POLIS, MA in European Urban Cultures.
Duration
12 months.
Content
The MA in European Urban Cultures (MA EUC) offers a specialist programme aimed at graduate
students from Europe and elsewhere with undergraduate degrees in subject areas such as the social
sciences, cultural and leisure studies, art, design and architecture, urban theory and planning or
cultural marketing and management. The course is also targeted at professionals and administrators
eager for the latest experiences, ideas and insights into urban cultural policy.
A number of features make the learning experience in this course unique:
- a joint curriculum developed by the four universities allows each to offer courses and project work
associated with particular staff expertise and research interests;
- a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on disciplines such as urban theory and planning;
sociology, cultural and leisure studies, cultural management, architecture and design;
- a ‘project work’ unit based on the current research programmes of the staff involved in delivering
the course;
- an explicit European and transnational comparative perspective;
- an opportunity for students to travel in Europe and spend time studying and living in four European
cities in an international student group;
- an opportunity to experience a cross-national diversity of academic contexts and a cross-national
diversity of urban development projects; and
- an opportunity to work with a variety of information and communication technologies, including GIS,
WWW, DTP, MAC and MULTIMEDIA.
The deadline for applications is in February.
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