Master of Arts / Master of Science in Urban Policy & Governance

Description

Summary of the Program

India, and many other parts of the global South are among the most rapidly urbanizing parts of the world. The complexity and dynamism of urbanisation trajectories and cities, particularly in the rapidly urbanising Global South, raise multiple challenges and trade-offs in governance and policy making, financing and administration. At this critical juncture, when larger (counter)currents of globalization, informalization and climate change are shaping change, the Master’s Program in Urban Policy and Governance seeks to reframe an urban practice in India, and the Global South that is context-sensitive, inclusive and sustainable.

The program examines the origins, foundations, development, and implementation of public policy related to cities and urbanization in India. It engages critically with urban plans, policies, urban governance structures and reforms, urban schemes and Missions such as JNNURM, Smart Cities and National Urban Livelihoods Mission and innovative urban initiatives such as Streets for People. The program also examines how different policies affect different social groups and classes, and how people and groups and their interactions with each other and the built environment, in turn, respond to, and shape these policies.

It is a multi-disciplinary field informed by diverse disciplines such as economics, demographic studies, law, political science, geography, planning, architecture, sociology, finance, and technology. Urban professionals occupy roles as private consultants providing advisory services to government agencies, officials in the government projects, as development workers in NGOs engaged in advocacy campaigns or projects, and as domain experts in think tanks, and scholars in academic institutes.

The Program also seeks to generate innovative urban policy and governance research guided by a perspective that emphasizes democratic, equitable, socially just cities informed by culturally sensitive, socially and environmentally appropriate frameworks and technically sound processes and outcomes.

Program Objectives

The Master’s degree in Urban Policy and Governance seeks to:

• develop skilled and capable urban professionals with an interdisciplinary knowledge of the urban who are also politically aware, socially sensitive, and environmentally conscious.

• equip students with strong theoretical, conceptual and practical understanding of complex urban governance challenges

• build capacities of students in understanding and analyzing urban policies and their impacts on different groups of people, especially vulnerable groups

• enable students with strong professional skills and values that will equip them to work with communities in partnership with government and private sector organizations

• prepare students with critical analytical skills, and independent proposal writing and research skills to carry out innovative research on contemporary urban issues

Program Outcomes

• Developing a class of urban policy-practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to the urban by application of evidence based policy making and evaluation through appropriate theories, concepts, and analytical tools and skills from different disciplines

• Promoting the larger goals of participatory, inclusive, democratic, equitable and just distribution and governance of urban resources, particularly addressing the needs of the most vulnerable sections of urban society through grounded engagement in the field in collaboration with multiple stakeholders

• Interweaving teaching, research and advocacy to contribute to emergent decolonized knowledge production about the urban condition in India and the global South

Semesterwise Courses:

Notes:

1. The total number of credits, list of CBCS/Swayam courses and semester-wise listing of courses is provisional and may undergo some changes.

2. Value added course (0 credit) will be compulsory at the end of Semester I and III (30 hours each or 60 hours total).

3. Exit option is available at the end of Year I

Note:The curriculum structure is tentative and subject to change.

Fee Structure:

 *Institute reserves the rights to revise the Fees Structure of programme if necessary.

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