Analysis, Planning and Sustainable Management of Land and Territory (Classi LM-48/LM-80)-Enrolled from 2022/23 Academic Year

The master's degree program in Analysis, planning and sustainable management of the territories is a two-year course that trains LM 48 and LM 80 graduates who, regardless of the degree class, will be:
- prepared in the field of : i) geographic sciences, ii) cartographic representation and communication of the cultural and environmental heritage of the territory;
- able to use traditional and innovative tools in the geographical, cartographic and land planning fields for the analysis, management and representation of territorial data;
- able to develop and coordinate environmental and landscape management, regeneration and restoration projects and projects for the enhancement and promotion of territories in the context of regional, national and international calls;
- able to collaborate with interested parties to foster communication and the promotion of a culture oriented to the protection and enhancement of the landscape and the territory.
In addition, graduates:
- will be able to describe and analyse not only the transformations on an urban and territorial scale that characterize a specific territory, but also they will recognize and describe all the socio-economic processes and dynamics that are both the origin and the result of these transformations;
- will know the characteristics, purposes and field of application of various urban planning tools, whether at a regional level (such as the Regional Landscape Plan), at a general level (such as the General Town Plan) or at an implementation level (such as the Detailed Plan and the Allotment Plan ) and will be able to contribute to their drafting, revision or updating;
- will know the architecture and operation of various geographic information systems (GIS) for the analysis and management of the territory and the production of cartography.
Furthermore:
- graduates of the LM-80 class will also acquire knowledge and skills useful for accessing subsequent courses and competitions for teaching geography in the specific A21 class;
- LM 48 graduates will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to independently draw up planning tools and related implementation devices.

To achieve these objectives, the course is organized in such a way as to provide all enrolled students with the cultural bases of geographic sciences, urban and land planning. This takes place through a common first year with basic courses characterizing both classes and with a second year that still includes a large part in common.
Upon enrollment, the student must choose the master's degree class in which he or she will obtain the degree (LM 80 or LM 48). The student can also change the choice of the master's degree class within the second year, thanks to the fact that most of the study path is common to the two classes and allows for ongoing changes. For the choice of the most suitable degree class for their professional aspirations and for changes in progress, the student will make use, if desired, of the advice of the tutor teacher (to whom he/she is assigned from the first year) who will also support the selection of free choice courses and internships.

Here following the articulation of the two-year period of this master degree course.
The first year is organized in the first semester with:
- a fundamental course of geography (MGGR/01) named 'Valorisation of cultural and territorial heritage' (9 ECTS),
-a fundamental course of Ecology (6 ECTS BIO/07),
-a 12 ECTS course called 'Information Systems and Statistics for the territory' divided into two modules of 6 ECTS each to acquire IT and data analysis skills (INF/01 and SECS-s/01 respectively Geographic Information Systems and Statistics).
In the second semester there will be:
-a 6 ECTS course in applied economics named 'Policies and tools for the sustainability of the rural territory' (AGR / 01),
- a 6 ECTS course in earth sciences named 'Physical geography and territorial planning' (GEO / 04),
-a 6 ECTS course in urban planning law (IUS / 10) and
- a 12 ECTS course divided into 2 modules of 6 ECTS each in urban planning and land planning (ICAR / 20 and ICAR / 21, Technical and urban planning I and Design of urban and rural territories I, respectively).
The first common year ends with the English language proficiency test (3 ECTS, minimum level B2 required).
The second year, in addition to common courses, allows students, regardless of enrolment, free and guided choices that allow them to deepen the different cultural aspects of the land and territorial sciences.
In the first semester of the second year, all students must acquire 9 ECTS with a course of geography (MGGR/01) by choosing from three possible courses proposed:
1) Analysis of landscape-environmental systems;
2) Methods for the representation and communication of the territories;
3) Territorial systems and local development.
Furthermore, all students will acquire another 12 ECTS in urban planning and land planning (1 exam in 2 modules i.e. Urban planning and technique II and Urban and rural territories planning II, ICAR / 20 and ICAR / 21) in order to consolidate knowledge and skills in this indispensable sector for future planners and geographers who want to operate in the field of land planning and regeneration.
After these common 21 ECTS (9 ECTS MGGR/01 and 12 ECTS ICAR/20 and 21), all students will follow a laboratory for the acquisition of transversal skills (communication and soft skills, 3 ECTS). The inclusion of the mandatory communication laboratory is designed as a useful tool for communicating proposed projects of territorial management. This is the part of the second year common to all students.
The second part of the second year leaves students the freedom to better outline their preparation, choosing two specialized courses of 6 ECTS each from a sufficiently wide range of courses offered. Among these are always provided geographic, geological, planning and environmental courses, in order to allow a professionalizing path according to the cultural interests and professional aspirations of the students. Students then have other 9 ECTS of free choice that they can use for another 9 ECTS course to be included in the study plan or to include a 6 ECTS course and a 3ECTS didactic laboratory among those that will be proposed annually. This further choice allows to personalize the study path more according to the cultural interests and professional aspirations of the students.
Finally, a 3 ECTS internship (equal to about 150 hours) is foreseen for all students to be carried out preferably outside the university, or to be carried out in the field of professional study, institution or company (also abroad), to consolidate outside the academic field what was learned in the classroom and in the UNIMI laboratories.
To choose which free choice exams to enter or where to carry out the internship, the student will be supported and advised, if desired, by the teacher tutor to whom he/she was assigned from the first year at the time of enrolment in the degree course.
The master's course ends with an original and experimental thesis (12 ECTS). This can also be declined as a territorial planning, territorial regeneration or territorial analysis project that allows students to demonstrate the autonomy in the execution of projects and analyses, the ability critical and synthetic and the skills acquired in the two-year period.