Minor in Urban Planning Curriculum

Course Offerings: Students must complete 15 hours of coursework to earn a minor in urban planning. Students pursuing the minor in urban planning must enroll in PLAN 365 before completing the minor.

PLAN 365: Introduction to Urban Planning (3): Overview of the multi-disciplinary domains of urban and regional planning; land use planning; urban design; infrastructure; transportation; environment; health and human services; housing and community development; economic development; emergency and disaster management; ethics in local governance.

An additional 12 hours of coursework may be selected from the courses listed below.

PLAN 356: Housing and Community (3): Housing, its development, planning, marketing, designing, financing and production; social and design history and contemporary issues of American housing development, urban sprawl, neighborhood structures and community facilities. Prerequisite: junior or senior classification.

PLAN 360: Introduction to the Urban Planning Function (3): Past influences and current practice of planning in the United States; issues which impact on the comprehensive planning process; different approaches to planning and plan formulation in the context of private, governmental and institutional settings.

PLAN 370: Introduction to Health Systems Planning (3): Introduction to planning in health care system at both institutional and community levels.

PLAN 414: Sustainable Communities (3): Focuses on sustainable community with applications in public policy/design including societal organization, disciplinary bound design and policy, and empowered approaches to design, social ecology and public policy; reading and review of relevant literature on sustainability, complemented with exercises to illustrate underlying principles. Prerequisite: junior or senior level classification or approval of instructor.

PLAN 415: Urban Issues (3): Issues pertaining to the development of cities and urban regions; examines the socio-economic, cultural and physical development of urban areas; address contemporary problems such as racial tension, unemployment and poverty, housing, pollution and environmental sustainability, traffic and congestion, land use, crime, public health, and other quality of life issues. Prerequisite: junior or senior level of classification or approval of instructor.

LAND 461: Geographic Information Systems App. in Resource Management

LDEV 467: Land Development: Financially feasible, environmentally sustainable, project design/construction/finance processes; resolution of site and environmental issues with market and financial considerations; design concepts for value enhancement of land, residential, commercial and retail-development. Prerequisite: junior or senior classification or approval of instructor.

Satisfactory completion of courses: To be awarded the minor in Urban & Regional Planning and receive transcript recognition, students must obtain a "C" or better in each of the courses selected from the list above.

Transfer courses: Transfer courses are not permitted.

Effective date: This minor became effective at the beginning of the fall semester 2003. Students declaring a minor in Urban & Regional Planning must meet all requirements listed in this document to receive transcript recognition. Students must declare their intent to seek the minor prior to the semester in which they intend to graduate.

Upper level courses: All students pursuing the minor in Urban & Regional Planning must have U3 (junior) or U4 (senior) classification to enroll in required 300 – 400 level courses or permission from the minor program coordinator.

Advising: Per University guidelines, the student’s home college or major department is responsible for advising students pursuing a minor in Urban & Regional Planning. In addition, students are required to meet with the Minor Advisor in the Department of Landscape Architecture for advising prior to admission to the program.