Electives build on concepts and skills taught in the Commons and allow learners to create their own trajectories through the UFP by focusing on particular sectors and focus areas they want to develop. Fellows will be able to choose four to six Elective courses offered across different cycles, which will enable them to understand, engage and grapple with contemporary urban debates.
Elective courses are broadly of four types: Sector-specific courses like Housing Policy and Practice or National Urban Missions; thematic courses like Urban and Regional Economic Development or Sustainable Cities; technical or methods courses like Environmental Impact Assessment; and theory courses such as Southern Urban Theory. Many Electives also combine different aspects of these broad four categories. While Elective choices vary year to year, the courses on offer ensure coverage across these four types.
Elective Courses in the UFP have included:
Governing Land |
Governing Mega-Infrastructure Projects |
National Urban Missions |
Urban Finance |
Urban Regulation: Understanding the Design of Urban Laws and Policies |
Urban Health Systems |
Work, Labour, and Informality in the Urban |
Designing Urban Social Protection Programmes |
Digital Labour Markets and the Future of Work |
Practice of Economics in the Urban |
Planning and Communities |
Shivaji Nagar as Economy’s Infrastructures: A Spatial Story Perspective |
Urban and Regional Economic Development |
Affordable Housing: Policy and Practice |
Energy and the City |
Housing Policy and Practice: Rental Housing |
Transit-Oriented Cities |
Contestations and Negotiations of Public Spacemaking/Placemaking |
Changing Climate, Changing Cities |
Climate Change and Human Settlements |
Environmental & Social Impact Assessment |
Sustainable Cities |
Urban Risk and Resilience |
Urban Sanitation |
Urban Transportation and Mobility |
Urban Biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) |
Decarbonising the City |
Urban Infrastructure Resiliance |
Development Communication |
Experiencing Home: Affect and Housing in |
Modern South Asia |
Film and the City |
Media and the City |
Reading the City |
Urban Theory from the South |
Queer Spaces in the City: A Workshop in Urban Histories |
Activism and the City |
Development Communication |