Students take compulsory modules (70 credits) from a list which may include: Introduction to information skills; thinking about research: puzzles, paradoxes and problems; qualitative methodology in the social sciences; quantitative methodology in the social sciences; dissertation preparation; optional modules (50 credits) are then chosen from a range including: planning law and government; land economics; urban design; cities and new technologies; environmental assessment and design; conservation of the historic environment; equal opportunities; plus a dissertation project (60 credits).