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PLAC 6090 - Planning Practicum
This course serves as the fourth semester integrative class for the MUEP. Students work on a group project for a community client. Course entails understanding and drafting MOUs, creating concrete work plans, engaging with the public, gathering data and investigating strategies and alternatives. Final product should be a meaningful, implementable planning document for community use.
Credits: 4
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PLAC 6862 - Planning for Climate Change
This course is three-credit course that will examine the impacts of climate change on cities & explore the various ways local governments & other stakeholders are working to manage climate change & enhance community resilience. Because the course is a PLAC,students will be working on developing an actual strategic framework for addressing climate change with a client city.Students will get exposures to the central analyses used in climate change
Credits: 3
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PLAC 7500 - Topical Offerings in Planning
Topical Offerings in Planning
Credits: 3
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PLAC 8060 - Urbanism Design Studio
This design studio pulls together many issues that graduate students have studied individually in design technology, theory and history courses into a complex and integrated section of a living and working community. This research looks at integrating infrastructure systems as a community connection system, energy producing ecology and as a civic public space symbol. Pre-Requisites: ARCH/LAR 7010
Credits: 6
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PLAC 8240 - Advanced Collaborative Planning for Sustainability
Examines the processes by which consensus can be developed, focusing general negotiation theory and skill development, including the concept of principled negotiation; the conflict landscape, including government and non-government organizations; and negotiation resources and opportunities, including organizations, processes, and enabling legislation.
Credits: 3
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PLAC 8500 - Topical Offerings in Planning
Topical Offerings in Planning
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5010 - Urban Design Research Studio
Explores methods of urban design analysis, stressing observational and representational methods. Emphasizes relationships among public and private buildings, spaces, and transportation corridors in commercial centers.
Credits: 6
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PLAN 5020 - Planning Design
Explores methods of urban design analysis, stressing observational and representational methods. Emphasizes relationships among public and private buildings, spaces, and transportation corridors in commercial centers. Cross-listed with PLAN 2020.
Credits: 4
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PLAN 5040 - Planning in Government
Examines the role of planning in government decision-making. Focuses on local government, but intergovernmental aspects of planning that influence local decisions are also stressed. Studies planning processes, such as transportation, community development, and social planning.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5110 - Digital Visualization for Planners
Digital technology for representing and analyzing planning data will include photo-editing, web page design, geographic information system mapping, spreadsheet modeling, and document layout and production. The major emphasis will be on two- and three- dimensional representation of spaces common to planning: streetscape, neighborhoods, communities and regions. Graduate Students will undertake additional course requirements.
Credits: 4
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PLAN 5131 - GIS Visualization for Designers
This course covers the basic concepts of GIS, spatial data management, GIS mapping, spatial reasoning, site representation, data-driven 3D modeling, and interoperability. It is tailored for students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or related programs who want to catch up with the geo-spatial revolution in the design field.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5140 - Advanced Design Themes of Great Cities
This course discusses the design qualities of the world’s great cities. Each session focuses on the defining characteristics of different cities such as their natural settings, public spaces, transportation systems, types of buildings, and everyday details.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5200 - The Real Estate Development Process
This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the urban and suburban land development process. The course will begin with community case studies focused on subjective components of development such as design guidelines and qualities of livable places. Following this effort, students will be placed into teams and, using actual sites, will complete a comprehensive development feasibility report.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5201 - Real Estate Finance
Covers fundamental of real estate finance. Students will obtain understanding the development process, the constraints and opportunities, and ways finance impacts upon the feasibility and success of any real estate project. Prerequisite: Plan5200
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5203 - Design Dimensions of Real Estate
The course will assist students to critically evaluate/appreciate the role good design and planning plays in adding value to real estate. Using a comparative case approach, the course examines developer decision-making throughout the development process and the way that design interacted with financial constraints/market dynamics, public perceptions of the project, and the legal framework. Prerequisite: Plan5200.
Credits: 2
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PLAN 5250 - Mediation Theory and Skills
This highly engaging one-credit, pass-fail course will introduce students to the principles and practices of mediation, with an emphasis on inter-personal conflict.
Credits: 1
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PLAN 5300 - Preservation Planning
Studies current literature on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of historic places. Develops techniques for surveying, documenting, evaluating, and planning for preservation. Analyzes current political, economic, and legal issues in preservation planning.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5310 - Adv. History Cities & Planning
An overview of the planning profession with emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century American urban history.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5400 - Housing and Community Development
Provides an introduction to the housing and community development area of planning practice. Topics include the housing and development industries, neighborhood change processes, social aspects of housing and development, and housing and development programs and policy issues.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5401 - Models for Higher Density Housing
This seminar will focus on density and contemporary housing issues, specifically related to affordable housing. As cities have spread out or decayed at the core, the variety of housing options has decreased leading to a growing divide between where and how people can afford to live. Assignments range from readings and leading discussion to case study presentations of recent global and local housing designs.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5410 - Economic Built Environment
Economics studies the efficient allocation of scarce resources. Efficiency is achieved when an economy cannot make anyone economically better off without making someone else worse off. In most mixed economies, like the U.S., there is a dominant market system of organizing economic activity that coordinates the basic questions of allocation: what, how and for whom to produce.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5420 - Economic Development
Explores the economy of a community, neighborhood, or region as an essential element, in livability and sustainability. Planners engage economic development by working with the community to assess needs and opportunities, through public-private business partnerships, and in development review.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5440 - Neighborhood Planning
As the “building blocks” of cities, neighborhood plans involve citizens in addressing issues of housing, jobs, public services, education, recreation, and transportation.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5450 - Healthy Communities
Explores connections between the built environment and community health, with an emphasis on re-integrating planning with its original roots in public health.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5452 - Healthy Cities
This class explores what makes a healthy city, what are the constituent parts of that system and what are different peoples needs across the life span, from perinatal to older age. The class begins by exploring concepts of health including health resilience - and focuses on how our cities can be better designed to optimize human flourishing.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5470 - Site Selection and Project Feasibility
This class addresses the very beginning of the land and building development process: the search for potential sites. Students weekly select sites and conduct feasibility evaluations which are then discussed extensively in class. Students learn about the wide range of factors (regulatory requirements, community acceptance, ability to finance, infrastructure, market potential and others).
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5500 - Special Topics in Planning
Varies annually to meet the needs of graduate students.
Credits: 1 to 4
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PLAN 5580 - Short Courses in Planning
A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester.
Credits: 1
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PLAN 5581 - Short Courses in Planning I
A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester.
Credits: 1
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PLAN 5600 - Land Use and Growth Management
Introduces the theory and practice of land use planning and growth management as they have evolved historically and as expressed in contemporary practice. Addresses the need and rationale for land use planning as well as its tools.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5601 - Regional Planning
An examination of opportunities & obstacles of regional planning in the U.S. Key topics include the historical foundations of regionalism, political & economic relationships between suburban & urban jurisdictions, & local vs. metropolitan perspectives with regard to growth management, transportation, environmental planning & economic development, among others.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5603 - Biophilic Urbanism
This course begins with the premise that nature is essential to healthy, happy and meaningful lives and explores how cities can be designed and planned with nature at the center. The emerging science, key research underpinnings, and principles of biophilic planning will be examined. The class will review best practices of leading biophilic cities around the world and their efforts to restore, integrate and celebrate nature.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5605 - Degrowth
What exactly does growth-dependence mean? Is the planning profession dependent on growth as well? If so, how, when and why did this contingent state of affairs come into being and what, if anything, should be done about it? In this follow-up to PLAN 5601 Regional Planning we cast a critical eye toward the topics of growth and sustainability, by way of an in-depth case study examination of an expanding European social movement known as Degrowth.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5611 - Barcelona Urban History
The students will understand the history of Barcelona from its Roman foundation to the extension of its medieval walls. The development of its urban structural grid, example of Cerdà, as well as its current state of remodeling for the Olympic games, and the ongoing urban transformations will all be studied in this class. This course will consist of lectures, field trips & practical exercises; specifically we will develop a graphic interpretation.
Credits: 3
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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.
Credits: 3
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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 5710 - Transportation and Environment
Course examines the impacts of transportation systems on the environment from roadside air quality to global climate change, exploring sustainable transportation policy, multimodal transportation, environmental justice, resilience,and community-based solutions.Building on course readings and discussion, PhD students will propose and develop a research paper on a topic of their choosing within the overall theme of transportation and the environment.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5740 - Transportation Planning and Policy
This course introduces graduate and advanced undergraduate students to current issues in the field of transportation planning and policy. It addresses all modes of transportation (auto, walk, bike) and considers multiple scales (national, state, regional and local). Through the analysis of key topics such as congestion, air quality, social equity, and security, we will gain an understanding of how decisions about the transportation system
Credits: 3
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PLAN 5770 - Plan Implementation
Emphasizes the use of zoning, subdivision, and other regulations to implement comprehensive plans. Attention is given to capital facilities programming and building codes.
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 - Ethics of Cities and Environment
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 5870 - Environment and the Economy
Focuses on a central question: Can local economies be sustainable and equitable without damaging the environment? Within this question are embedded topics’ environmental racism, brownfield reclamation, environmental policy, and community organizing and engagement. Graduate course will have additional course requirements. The course addresses the challenges of balancing environment, economics, and 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 5892 - Psychology of Environment and Space
This course provides a strong foundation in environmental psychology theory and methods. It will help you understand the human response to the designed environment, and how people feel, perceive and respond to the environment, as well as equip you with research skills to measure human-environment interactions.
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 6010 - Fundamentals of Planning
Survey course that introduces the field of urban and environmental planning as practiced in the United States. Topics include: history and theory of urbanization and city growth, emergence of the profession in 20th Century; main movements/eras of planning practice (e.g., City Beautiful, urban renewal) and major sub-fields within the profession (e.g., transportation, community development, urban design).
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6020 - Methods of Community Research and Engagement
Explores methods beyond the conventional town-hall meeting to gather insights from communities on planning issues. Topics will include more traditional methods of qualitative research such as focus groups, interviews, charrettes, participatory action research, and scenario planning, as well as strategies like asset mapping, visual preference surveys, games, art-based visioning, participatory budgeting.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6030 - Introduction to GIS
Geographic Information System (GIS) is a data management tool, a mapping tool, a visualization tool & a spatial analysis engine. While this is an introductory GIS course, it will focus on how planners can use GIS to develop critical spatial thinking & address current problems in our natural & built environment. Graduate course will have additional course requirements on spatial analysis.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6040 - Quantitative Methods of Planning Analysis
Applies quantitative skills to the planning process: analyzes decision situations and develops precise languages communicating the quantitative dimensions of planning problems. Includes lectures, case studies, and applied assignments addressing statistical methods, survey methods, census data analysis, program and plan evaluation, and emerging methods used by planners.
Credits: 4
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PLAN 6050 - Law, Land and the Environment
This course examines major legal issues surrounding land use planning and environmental protection. Intended to introduce students to critical legal concepts (e.g., due process, precedent, standing) as well as the parameters set for planning by the US Constitution, key Constitutional amendments, and various statutes including main federal environmental laws. Where appropriate state level laws and cases are reviewed.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6060 - Collaborative Planning Process for Sustainability
Examines deliberative processes, including dialogue and consensus building, by which communities can address public issues and build support for sustainable futures. Students will develop confidence in their ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of collaborative change processes, and to design and conduct authentic public meetings, transformative community dialogues, and powerful collaborative change processes.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6070 - Planning Theory and Practice
In this course students grapple with the dynamic tensions between planning and democracy, the various responses that have been proposed, and planning failures and successes. They explore the development of theories about how we ought to plan, why, and for whom.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6130 - Advanced GIS
This course focuses on case studies of real world GIS applications. Three cases covering urban and environmental planning at different scales will be introduced. To address these cases, students will learn advanced GIS skills in geodatabase design, data editing, spatial analysis, modeling and visualization. Class time is divided by multimedia lectures, hands-on demonstrations, project status updates from students, and diagnostic discussions
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6500 - Special Topics in Planning
Topical offerings in planning.
Credits: 1 to 6
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PLAN 6600 - Urban Research
This is a component of the Design studio, focused on local, on site research. The Urban Research component may be taken independently by History and Planning students.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6811 - Gender & Built Environment
This class explores the wide range of approaches that have been taken to the complex relationships between body, sex, gender, and the built environment. Some see buildings as a direct expression of sexed bodies (phallic towers and breast-like domes), while others see buildings and settlements as expressions and reiterations of the gender structures of a culture.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 6860 - Cities + Nature
This class begins with the premise that contact with nature is essential to modern life.The class will examine the evidence for why nature in important,and the many creative ways in which cities can plan for,and design-in nature, and foster meaningful and everyday connections with the natural world.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 7010 - Research Studio 1
Advanced vertical studio, exploring complex issues and sites, often through interdisciplinary design research.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 7040 - Advanced Metropolis
This lecture course focuses on cities as centers of cultural, social, and artistic activity. It considers how we define cities, the forces that create and sustain them, and what makes them culturally distinctive. It looks at several cities at their moments of cultural, political, and architectural glory: Istanbul in the 16thcentury, London in the late 17th and 18th centuries, Paris in the 19th century, New York in the 20th century, and Shanghai in the 21st century.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 7400 - Housing & Community Development
Provides an introduction to the housing and community development area of planning practice. Topics include the housing and development industries, neighborhood change processes, social aspects of housing and development, and housing and development programs and policy issues.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 7401 - Models for Higher Density Housing
This seminar will focus on density and contemporary housing issues, specifically related to affordable housing. As cities have spread out or decayed at the core, the variety of housing options has decreased leading to a growing divide between where and how people can afford to live. Assignments range from readings and leading discussion to case study presentations of recent global and local housing designs.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 7710 - Transportation and Environment
This course examines the impacts of transportation systems on the environment, including local and regional emissions and global climate change. Both technological solutions and comprehensive transportation and land use approaches to mitigating impacts are explored. The course addresses additional topics including multimodal transportation, environmental justice, resiliency, incentives and pricing sustainable transportation
Credits: 3
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PLAN 7810 - 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 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 8020 - Methods of Community Research and Engagement
Explores methods beyond the conventional town-hall meeting to gather insights from communities on planning issues.Topics will include more traditional methods of qualitative research such as focus groups, interviews, charrettes, participatory action research, & scenario planning, as well as strategies like asset mapping, visual preference surveys, games, art-based visioning, participatory budgeting. Ph.D students will undertake additional course requirements.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8030 - Neighborhoods, Community and Regions
Explores theories and concepts of economic, social, and cultural forces that influence urban and regional spatial structure.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8040 - Adv Quantitative Methods of Planning Analysis
Addresses the law as it relates to planning practice. Includes substantial work in traditional areas of land-use law, but also deals with the law as an instrument for change. Emphasizes developing legal research skills and performing legal analysis. A core course.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8050 - Advanced Law, Land and the Environment
This course examines major legal issues surrounding land use planning & environmental protection. Intended to introduce students to critical legal concepts (e.g.,due process,precedent,standing) as well as the parameters set for planning by the US Constitution,key Constitutional amendments, & various statutes including main federal environmental laws.Where appropriate state level laws and cases are reviewed. Ph.D. students will have additional requirements.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8090 - Advanced Planning Theory and Practice
Provides a history of the intellectual and professional roots of contemporary planning theory and practice. Analyzes these roots with an eye to stimulating new perspectives and concepts for a sustainable community orientation. A core course.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8500 - Advanced Special Topics in Planning
Varies annually to meet the needs of graduate students.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PLAN 8580 - Advanced Short Courses in Planning
A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester.
Credits: 1
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PLAN 8600 - Land Use and Growth Management
Addresses the need and rationale for land use planning as well as its tools. Introduces the theory and practice of land use planning and growth management as they have evolved historically and as expressed in contemporary practice.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8710 - Advanced Transportation and Environment
Course examines the impacts of transportation systems on the environment from roadside air quality to global climate change, exploring sustainable transportation policy, multimodal transportation, environmental justice, resilience,and community-based solutions. Building on course readings and discussion, PhD students will propose and develop a research paper on a topic of their choosing within the overall theme of transportation and environment.
Credits: 3
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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 8811 - Advanced Gender & Built Environment
This class explores the wide range of approaches that have been taken to the complex relationships between body, sex, gender, and the built environment. Some see buildings as a direct expression of sexed bodies (phallic towers and breast-like domes), while others see buildings and settlements as expressions and reiterations of the gender structures of a culture.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8840 - Adv Ethics of Environmental & Cities
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. Graduate Students will undertake additional course requirements.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8892 - Psychology of Environment and Space
This course provides a strong foundation in environmental psychology theory and methods. It will help you understand the human response to the designed environment, and how people feel, perceive and respond to the environment, as well as equip you with research skills to measure human-environment interactions. Graduate course will have additional course requirements.
Credits: 3
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PLAN 8993 - Independent Studies in Urban and Environmental Planning
Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students. Departmental approval of the topic is required.
Credits: 1 to 4
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PLAN 8994 - Thesis
Preparation and completion of a thesis.
Credits: 3 to 6
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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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PLAN 8999 - Master’s Thesis
A thesis is optional for the Master of Urban and Environmental Planning degree. Students should begin early to explore topics and to identify potential committee members. A guideline document is available.
Credits: 3 to 6
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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
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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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WGS 7500 - Approaches to Gender and Sexuality Studies
An introduction to contemporary feminist and queer theories, intended for graduate students. Offers a survey of contemporary feminist and queer epistemology, subject formation, ethics, and politics, as well as a grounding in the methods of feminist and queer theory. What is a woman? What is sex? What is gender? What is sexuality? These and related questions are discussed from multidisciplinary perspectives.
Credits: 3
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WGS 7559 - New Course in Women, Gender & Sexuality
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of women, gender & sexuality.
Credits: 1 to 4
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