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PLAN 5620 - Sustainability and Adaptive Infrastructure
Infrastructure mediates between the needs of our urban communities and the systems, natural and constructed, which support them. This course is focused on the infrastructure of cities and urbanizing regions and includes topics such as transportation, drinking water, waste water, energy, schools, parks, recycling, and public safety. The course will examine current challenges and a range of means for responding to and funding needed changes.
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PLAN 5630 - Design of Cities
Cities are physical artifacts that are experienced psychologically and socially. This course investigates the theories surrounding these processes to reach an understanding of humanistic urban design intentions. Experiential realities are explored through case studies, readings, and mapping exercises.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5640 - Adv. Town Design
This course will investigate the generic principles and strategies that shape the form and character of towns and discuss influential towns that over the past several generations have, at least to their advocates, represented ‘good’ planning and design. While recognizing the importance of social and economic factors, the course will emphasize the physical, visual, and experiential qualities of towns.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5650 - Brownfields Redevelopment
This course analyzes the challenges and opportunities posed by the development of environmentally impaired properties. It explores the legal, political, and philosophical underpinnings of environmental regulation. The course includes fundamentals of real estate finance, including risk dynamics and debt capital, and assesses community involvement in redevelopment solutions.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5670 - Place Making
Seminar that explores the interconnections between infrastructure ‘ecological systems, transportation, and water supply’ and the form and vitality domestic urban landscape. Readings, discussions and research papers examine contemporary case studies, from the Charlottesville Urban Habitats Design Competition to ideas for rebuilding New Orleans.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5810 - Sustainable Communities
Examines sustainable communities and the environmental, social, economic, political, and design standards that underlie them. Focuses on reviewing case studies of cities, towns, and development projects that reflect principles of sustainability.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5830 - Environmental Policy and Planning
Examines contemporary environmental policy and practice, including exploration of the normative-philosophical debate surrounding environmental issues. Emphasizes understanding the political and institutional framework for establishing policy and programs; exploring the action approaches to environmental planning including moral suasion, regulation, public investment, and public incentives; and case studies of environmental planning at the federal, state, and local levels.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5840 - Environmental Ethics and Sustainability
Detailed exploration of the normative debate surrounding environmental issues. Focus on the foundations of environmental economics, questions about the value of endangered species, concerns of future generations, appropriateness of a sustainable society, notions of stewardship, and obligations toward equity.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5890 - Sustainable International Development
This course will explore development related root causes of environmental degradation in an international context. The course examines theoretical frameworks explaining the linkage between underdevelopment and environmental issues in a developing country context. Specifically, the course will explore the importance of overconsumption, technology, poverty, and inequality as complex set of factors contributing to the environmental crisis.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5891 - International Cities
This course takes a case study approach to examine the sustainable development issues of 10 cities around the world with attention mainly to urban landscape and urban ecology. One outstanding topic will be studied in depth for each city, such as ecology of large urban park for New York city and urban development in mountainous regions for Chongqing, China. The goal of this course is to give students a global view on these issues.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5993 - Applied Independent Study Individual study directed by a faculty member. Prerequisite: Planning faculty approval of topic.
Credits: 1 to 4 |
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PLAN 6050 - Methods of Planning Analysis
Applies quantitative skills to the planning process: analyzes decision situations and develops precise languages for structuring or communicating their quantitative dimensions. Includes lectures, case studies, and reviews of statistical methods, survey research methods, census data analysis, program and plan evaluation, and computer modeling. A core course.
Credits: 4 |
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PLAN 6070 - Urban Theory and Public Policy
Concentrates on normative and empirical urban theory central to understanding the design and effects of public policies. The theories and applications considered span a number of academic disciplines. Stresses application of theoretical perspectives to federal, state, and local policy choices. A core course.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 6500 - Special Topics in Planning Topical offerings in planning.
Credits: 1 to 3 |
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PLAN 7993 - Independent Study Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor.
Credits: 1 to 4 |
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PLAN 8800 - Teaching Experience Involves serving as a teaching assistant for a course, with teaching assignments coordinated by the chair.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Masters For Thesis Preparation, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
Credits: 1 to 12 |
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Urdu |
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URDU 5010 - Advanced Urdu I
This course is designed to expand and to consolidate the structures the student has learned through URDU 2020 by reading original Urdu texts, ranging from literary prose fiction to news media excerpts to poetry (both classical and modern). We will discuss these texts in Urdu in class, and the students will be responsible for a series of short essays throughout the semester in Urdu pertaining both to the texts and to other topics.
Prerequisites: URDU 2020 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3 |
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URDU 5020 - Advanced Urdu II
This course is designed to expand and to consolidate the structures the student has learned through URDU 2020 by reading original Urdu texts, ranging from literary prose fiction to news media excerpts to poetry (both classical and modern). We will discuss these texts in Urdu in class, and the students will be responsible for a series of short essays throughout the semester in Urdu pertaining both to the texts and to other topics.
Prerequisites: URDU 2020 or instructor permission
Credits: 3 |
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URDU 6559 - New Course in Urdu This course is to allow 6000-level new courses in Urdu to be taught for one semester.
Credits: 3 |
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URDU 7300 - Readings in Urdu Poetry: An Ongoing Mahfil
This course will introduce advanced Urdu and Hindi students to some of the finest poetry in Urdu. Those who cannot read the Urdu script will have the option of reading the texts in Devanagari (the Hindi script). Some of the poets we will read are Mir, Ghalib, Dagh and Faiz. Course work will include brief analytical papers, as well as in-class presentations.
Prerequisites: URDU 3010 or 3020; or HIND 3010 or 3020; or instructor permission.
Credits: 3 |
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URDU 8993 - Independent Study in Urdu Independent study in Urdu language and/or literature.
Prerequisite: URDU 5010 or 5020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3 |
Women, Gender and Sexuality |
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WGS 5140 - Advanced Border Crossings: Women, Islam, & Lit. in Middle East & N. Africa
A focus on a bloodless, non-violent revolution that is shaking the foundation of the Islamic Middle East and North Africa, a revolution with women writers at the forefront. An examination of the rhetoric and poetics of sex segregation, voice, visibility, and mobility in a spectrum of genres that includes folklore, novel, short story, poetry, biography, autobiography, and essay. This course section is for graduate students only.
Prerequisites: Instructor Consent Required
Credits: 3 |
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WGS 5500 - Gender, Sexuality, and Education Course Topic(s) Education topic courses offered on a semster-to-semester basis. Please see the WGS website for specific approved sections.
Credits: 3 |
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