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HIUS 813 - The Emergence of Modern America, ca. 1870-ca. 1930
Explores the distinctive characteristics of American modernity as they emerged in the period from the end of reconstruction to the 1930s. Concentrates on the interplay between large national changes and local life as America became a world power. Investigates the reciprocal relations between society and politics, social organization and science and technology, large-scale bureaucratic organizations, and the changing class structure, culture, and ideology. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIUS 814 - American History, 1929-1945
A research seminar in which students write a major paper on some aspect of American history during this period. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate status; at least one upper-division undergraduate course, including this period or a relevant graduate course.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 815 - American History, 1945-Present
A research seminar that addresses problems in post-war historical research. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIUS 823 - The Nineteenth-Century South
Research on selected topics in the history of the American South during the eras of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New South. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIUS 824 - Topics in Modern Southern History
A research seminar. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: HIUS 724 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 847 - Twentieth-Century United States Labor History
Research seminar in labor history, covering topics from the era of Samuel Gompers to the decomposition of the post World War II socio-political order. Emphasizes the cultural and political conditions which gave rise to the industrial union movement of the 1930s and 1940s and to the internal dynamics of the trade unions of that era. Examines state politics and the labor policies of the leading firms in the core sectors of the economy. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIUS 851 - The History of United States Foreign Relations
A research seminar. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIUS 855 - American Legal History
Directed research in selected areas of American legal history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIUS 856 - Lawyers in American Public Life
Reading and biographical research on the legal profession and the role of lawyers in American government and politics since 1789. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIUS 857 - Nineteenth-Century American Social and Cultural History
A research seminar. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIUS 861 - Graduate Seminar in Women’s History
Examines American women’s history culminating in the composition of an original research paper based on primary source materials from any era. Paper either deals with some aspect of the history of American women or examines the history of gender relations. Includes peer readings and critiques. (IR)
Credits: 3
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HIUS 867 - The Civil Rights Movement
A research seminar on the ideas, individuals, social forces, protest movements, and public policies that dismantled the southern system of segregation and disfranchisement. (IR)
Credits: 3
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Urban and Environmental Planning |
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PLAN 502 - Urban 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 202. (S)
Credits: 4
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PLAN 508 - Mini-Courses
A series of one-credit short courses from which students can select topics such as “basic graphics”, “CDBG strategies”, “fiscal impact assessment”, “pedestrian & bicycle planning”. Topics vary each year. (Y)
Credits: 1
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PLAN 511 - 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. Representation of the past, the present and prospective futures to both professional and citizen audiences will receive critical attention. Cross-listed with Plan 211. (Y)
Credits: 4
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PLAN 512 - Geographic Information Systems
Reviews the use of computers in planning, emphasizing geographic information systems for collection, analysis, and display of spatial information in urban and environmental contexts. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 513 - Advanced GIS Workshop
Students apply GIS technology to examine significant issues of land, natural resources, and the characteristics of urban development. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 522 - Planning, Budgeting, and Finance
Evaluates the merit of various criteria for, and processes of, making budget choices. Examines questions about who should pay, who should benefit, who should participate, and who should decide, along with the consequences of these choices. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 524 - Consensus Building, Negotiation, and Mediation
Examines the processes by which consensus can be developed, focusing on three principal elements: (1) general negotiation theory and skill development, including the concept of “principled” negotiation; (2) the conflict landscape, including government and non-government organizations; and (3) negotiation resources and opportunities, including organizations, processes, and enabling legislation. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 525 - Public Involvement
Examines both the theory and practice of public involvement in planning. Explores the planner’s responsibility to the public and techniques for effective engagement. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 529 - Special Topics in Policy Planning
Varies annually to meet the needs of graduate students. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 530 - 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. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 534 - Urban Revitalization
Explores problems and potentials encountered in planning for older established urban neighborhoods and downtowns. These may range from market decline and physical decay to intense private reinvestment and displacement. Major topics include neighborhood change processes, the role of private lending institutions in neighborhood change, techniques for identifying economically sound housing and business opportunities in older neighborhoods, neighborhood commercial and residential revitalization techniques, financing neighborhood improvement programs, and historic and architectural preservation as a component of urban revitalization. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 540 - Introduction to 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 contemporary programs and policy issues. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 542 - Economic Development
Examines the economy of a community, region or neighborhood 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. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 543 - Land Development Workshop
Explores the process of land development from the point of view of the private land developer interacting with local governments. Includes development potential analysis, site analysis, traffic analysis, land planning, development programming, public and private service to accommodate new development, and public regulation of land development. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 544 - Neighborhood Planning
As the “building blocks” of cities, neighborhood plans involve citizens in addressing issues of housing, jobs, public services, education, recreation, and transportation. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 545 - 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. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 547 - Development Dynamics
Explores the process and financing of land development. Examines the roles of developers, investors, designers, planners, and others, identifying the objectives each have in the development decision process. Discusses the interplay and communications of what constitutes sound economics and good design. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 549 - Special Topics in Housing and Community Development
Credits: 3
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PLAN 551 - 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. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 552 - Sustainable Planning and Design Workshop
Students act as a consultant team to develop sustainable planning and design strategies for sites, which rotate each year. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 553 - 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. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 554 - Environmental Ethics and Sustainability
Detailed exploration of the normative debate surrounding environmental issues. Focuses on foundations of environmental economics, the value of endangered species, concerns of future generations, appropriateness of a sustainable society, notions of stewardship, and obligations toward equity. (E)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 555 - Environmental Impact Assessment
Explores environmental impact assessment processes and methods from both a theoretical and an applied perspective. The philosophy and statutory base of the assessment process are reviewed. Emphasizes the integration of the assessment process with the broader planning processes for a jurisdiction. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 557 - Environment and Economy
Rather then being opposites, environment & economy are both dimensions that must be addressed to achieve sustainable outcomes this course explores these issues and students develop proposed solutions. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 558 - Coastal Planning Issues
Explores the special characteristics of coastal island settings for their planning significance. Addresses natural hazard mitigation, wetlands, and biodiversity. (O)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 559 - Special Topics in Environmental Planning
Varies from year to year to meet the needs of graduate students studying environmental planning. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 560 - 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. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 561 - Community Planning Workshop
Land use plans are developed, usually in conjunction with citizens, for a community undergoing change. Cross-listed with PLAN 401. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 563 - 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. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 564 - Transit Oriented Design
Students conduct studies and prepare a plan for high-density mixed use developments around public transportation facilities. Local officials and leaders serve as the client. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 567 - Community Design
Explores the issues of community design as a form of public engagement. Students are drawn from planning architecture and landscape architecture to engage community design in an inter-disciplinary context. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 569 - Special Topics in Land Use Planning
Varies from year to year to fill graduate students’ needs in the study of land use planning. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 571 - Landscape Preservation Workshop
Examines the legal and practical issues involved in the conservation of rural landscapes including the settings of historic structures. Reviews the justification for landscape preservation, and the various planning strategies that could be employed to preserve landscapes, including land use regulations, tax incentives, and conservation easements. Includes case studies. (IR)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 572 - Transportation and Land Use
Reviews basic relationships between land use and transportation. Considers the decision process, planning principles, impact measures, and methodological frameworks for identifying and evaluating practices at regional, local, and neighborhood scale. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 574 - 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 are made and the role of transportation planners and advocates in these decisions. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 593 - Independent Study/Fieldwork in Planning
Individual study directed by a faculty member. (S)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Planning faculty approval of topic.
Credits: 1 to 4
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PLAN 601 - Planning Process and Practice
A practicum/problem course focusing on the use of maps and quantitative information in the planning process. Develops familiarity with types and sources of data and assesses the relevance of data for various types of problem situations. Provides experience in producing quality professional analysis. Also develops team skills and graphic presentation abilities. A core course. (Y)
Credits: 4
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PLAN 604 - Legal Aspects of Planning
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. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 605 - 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. (Y)
Credits: 4
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PLAN 607 - 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. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 609 - 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. (Y)
Credits: 3
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PLAN 873 - Venice Research Seminar
Study of selected topics related to coursework in Venice. (F)
Credits: 3 to 4
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PLAN 898 - 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. (S)
Credits: 3 to 6
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Workforce Development |
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PSWD 589 - Workforce Development Professional Competencies
This course provides an overview of and introduction to the competencies necessary for successful workforce development professionals. Experts in the field are used to present the knowledge and skills needed to excel in each competency within the workforce development arena. An extensive survey of best practices in the field will be utilized as a teaching tool in this course. The competencies covered include: The Profession of Workforce Development; Customer Focus; Managing Your Business Unit; Community, Business and Economic Development; Planning and Continuous Improvement; and Leadership and Influence.
Credits: 3
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PSWD 590 - Professional Assessment and Development
This course provides the opportunity to: identify workforce development competencies that the student has developed and/or enhanced; compare and contrast current workforce development theories, styles and programs; acquire a deeper understanding and appreciation of the student’s role as a workforce development professional; and integrate and apply the student’s learning to his/her work environment. Extensive reading, research, writing, and on-line participation are required.
Credits: 3
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PSWD 591 - Practicum: Workforce Development
The most powerful teaching tool is the application of knowledge. The practicum experience provides the opportunity to combine previous knowledge and skills with newly acquired knowledge and skills (from the prior two courses, PSWD 589: Introduction to Workforce Development Professional Competencies PSWD 590: Professional Assessment and Development). The student will incorporate this “combined” knowledge into his/her institution’s workforce development activities (i.e., increased job responsibilities, new program or partnership development, marketing strategies) while strengthening contributions to workforce development (at the system, institution and profession levels).
Credits: 3
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