| Program Description |
The Community & Urban Development pathway is designed to give you tools to engage with cities and with communities, as objects, as people, as metaphor, as relationships, as networks, and as organisms. This pathway empowers you to enhance your experience of cities and lives of communities by regulating land use and infrastructure, designing sustainable waste management or developing finance packages for cities and communities. You ensure that all members of the community are involved and represented in the decision-making processes. You work intimately to create political, social and economic opportunities for cities and communities across the globe.
The pathway provides students with a variety of perspectives by drawing its faculty from a wide spectrum of academic and operational expertise, ranging from history, sociology, engineering, architecture, law, arts, geography, economics, anthropology among others.
The Community & Urban Development pathway provides you with essential and fundamental skills to work within the development sector, economic and social systems, building industry, infrastructure and planning, including but not limited to:
Society & Health
Land: Perceptions; prejudices and politics
Disaster risk reduction of communities
Development & Sustainability
Audits and Assessments
Margins & Marginality
Housing Planning and Policy
Infrastructure, Technology & Cities
Urban Economics & Ecologies
Migration and Spatial Planning
Collectivises, networks and relatedness
Media and Community
Food & Community
Law, Governance and Community Planning
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| Admission & entry requirements |
10+2 examination or equivalent (CBSE, State Boards, IB, Cambridge and other Government‑recognized school leaving exams). Students completing grade 12th in 2022 are also eligible to apply. Admission to the programme is through a competitive process conducted over three rounds:
1.The application process with its personal statement and supplemental information
2.Jindal Creative Aptitude Test –JCAT (the entrance exam).
3.An interview process which includes a portfolio review.
#Only students who clear rounds 1 and 2 will receive the invite to appear in the Interview and portfolio review
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