Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
The relationship between social and economic space in the functioning and evolution of cities and their hinterlands is explained.
Trends in relationships between space, place and communities in different parts of the world are identified and explained.
Different current views on sustainability and environmentalism in urbanism are described.
Different perspectives on the evolution of urban space are described.
The ecological, subcultural and political approaches to urbanisation are described.
The impact of globalisation on economic and social space internationally and locally is understood.
Concepts such as colonialism, new-colonialism, fordism, post-fordism, and post-industrialism and their impact on developed, newly industrialised and developing societies are explained.
The role of location economics in the evolution of spatial economic systems at all levels of spatial aggregation is explained.
Different outcomes in formal-informal sector relationships and the role informal labour-production systems in urban and rural settlements are described and assessed.
The description of how urban form and function have historically impacted planning theory and policy is made.
An explanation of how ideology impact urban policy and what effect different urban development policies have on urban settlements in different parts of the world is given.
The spatial, social and economic problems that urban settlements of different sizes and growth rates face in different parts of the world are identified.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
Problems worth investigating are identified.
The most appropriate research methodologies that are required to analyse different elements of the research topic at hand are selected.
Research is independently conducted, evaluated and applied.
A research report is written and composed.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
A theoretical and practical understanding of various methods of statistical analysis is explained.
Descriptive statistics and distributions are calculated by means of relevant tests.
Appropriate methods of statistical analysis for application to specific scenarios within the discipline of urban and regional science and urban and regional planning are identified.
Statistical concepts and analysis with appropriate graphical techniques and presentations are presented and explained.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
The impact of demographic change in the processes of social evolution of urban and rural societies in the developed and developing worlds is explained.
The role of demography in planning and development policy formulation in South Africa is explained.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
Maps are generated using GIS software.
Map projections are made and coordinate systems are determined.
GIS theory is explained and applied.

Integrated Assessment:
During the course of the semester a maximum of one short unprepared test, two prepared formal tests, one group assignment and two individual assignments will be used to assess the learners’ mastery of the contents, its value and the learners’ applied competencies.

There are also the formal formative evaluation and assessment practices of the University that will assist in determining the relevancy of contents in the qualification.
An assessment programme will be designed which will enable the Department to periodically obtain feedback from learners who have successfully completed the qualification on the value of the contents of the qualification in the profession.