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Undergraduate Record 2024-2025
Urban and Environmental Planning, B.U.E.P.
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Return to: School of Architecture: Degree Programs
Undergraduate students entering the School of Architecture share a Common First Year in the School of Architecture curriculum. Students take core courses in Architectural History, Architecture, and Urban and Environmental Planning to provide a framework for the study of contemporary culture through observation, analysis, and design of built and natural environments. Students must pass each core course with a grade of C- or higher. During the spring semester of the first year, students choose an intended major: Bachelor of Architectural History, Bachelor of Science Architecture, or Bachelor of Urban and Environmental Planning.
The Program in Urban and Environmental Planning balances professional planning skills and urban studies with a liberal arts education emphasizing interdisciplinary study. Students take courses in the social and natural sciences, the humanities, and in design fields that are complemented by professional planning and elective courses. Program graduates begin work in the public, private, or nonprofit sectors in urban and rural areas ranging from city and county planning offices to real estate and development firms to economic development agencies. Some students continue for graduate professional studies.
The scope of the planner’s work encompasses present and future urban and environmental concerns, including such diverse issues such as environmental impact, quality of life, urban design, transportation, and the public and private costs of development and land use. Public sector planners work for all levels of government, formulating plans to redevelop or rehabilitate downtowns and neighborhoods, develop land aesthetically and profitably, create sustainable transportation plans, and regulate private development and impact to protect public interests. Planners frame long-range designs and shorter-term strategies that meet community plans and goals. Private sector planners employed with land developers, utilities, banks, property management firms, industries, architectural and design firms and other major corporations do similar work according to the particular concerns of each business. Planners in the nonprofit sector represent a variety of environmental, citizen advocacy, and community and economic development organizations. Many of these concerns are integrated with the department’s focus on sustainable community development, social equity, and environmental planning, and pressing global challenges.
Accreditation: The undergraduate program in Urban and Environmental Planning is accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board, sponsored jointly by the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
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Universal Curriculum Requirements
To be awarded a degree from the School of Architecture, students are required to complete universal curriculum requirements in addition to the program requirements provided below. The school universal curriculum requirements can be found on the school Degree Programs page .
Program Requirements
Undergraduate students entering the School of Architecture share a common first-year curriculum. Students take core courses in Architectural History, Architecture and Urban and Environmental Planning to provide a framework for the study of contemporary culture through observation, analysis, and considered design of our ongoing constructed occupation of the earth.
During the spring semester of the first year, students choose an intended major: Bachelor of Science Architecture, Bachelor of Architectural History, or Bachelor of Urban and Environmental Planning.
Grading Standards
Students must have a minimum of 122 credits with at least a 2.000 average in order to graduate with a Bachelor of Urban and Environmental Planning degree. A minimum of C- is required of all PLAN/PLAC and Language of Architecture courses.
Core Requirements for a Bachelor of Urban and Environmental Planning
Students who start the program as a First-year students will follow the curriculum listed below. Students who transfer in after their first year should consult with the Director of Undergraduate Studies about appropriate course substitutions. Students who wish to transfer to the program should consult with the Director of Undergraduate Studies before applying for transfer for the spring or fall semesters. If other prerequisites have been met, it is possible for transfer students to complete the required planning courses in two years. Please note: After the first year, the sequence of courses is flexible; students may take them in a different order from that suggested below.
Core Courses
Each of the Following:
Social/Behavioral Science Elective ( 12 credits)
Math/Natural Science Elective (6 credits)
Humanities Elective (3 Credits)
One of the Humanities or Open Elective credits must be of Non-Western Perspective designation (course deals substantially with a culture other than Western cultures; qualifying courses can be found in the SIS Course Catalog.)
Open Electives (15 credits)
One of the Humanities or Open Elective credits must be of Non-Western Perspective designation (course deals substantially with a culture other than Western cultures; qualifying courses can be found in the SIS Course Catalog.)
Politics Elective (6 credits)
Professional Elective (9 credits)
A Professional Elective can be taken in any UVA professional school at the 3000-level or above. These can be from Architecture, Batten, Commerce, School of Education, Data Science, Darden, Engineering, Law, or Nursing. Only certain courses in Kinesiology fulfill this requirement with prior approval of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. The intent of the professional electives is to give students additional depth and breadth in courses that complement their study of cities and their impact and promise on the global world.
PLAN Elective or Fourth Year Project (6 credits)
Notes
1. ENWR 1510 is included to match the First Writing Requirement of the College of Arts and Sciences. See the English Department web page http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement for details and alternatives. Majors must also complete the Second Writing Requirement as specified by the College of Arts and Sciences.
2. One of the Humanities or Open Elective credits must be of Non-Western Perspective designation (course deals substantially with a culture other than Western cultures; qualifying courses can be found in the SIS Course Catalog.)
3. Natural Science and Math are required electives (Note: some EVSC are classified as Social Science).
4. Students are encourgaed to select PLAN 3070 to partially fulfill the Politics curriculum requirement.
5. Majors take six credits of Politics and 12 other credits of Social/ Behavioral Science in addition to ECON 2010 and 2020.
6. Planning Applications courses are designated as a PLAC. These courses emphasize fieldwork, analysis, plan development, urban design, document preparation, digital visualization, data collection and analysis, and formal presentations. PLAC 4010 is required for planning Fourth-year undergraduates.
Public Professional Licensure Disclosure
As a member of the State Authorizations Reciprocity Agreement, the University of Virginia (UVA) is authorized to provide curriculum in a distance learning environment to students located in all states in the United States except for California. (34 CFR 668.43(a)(6)& 34 CFR 668.72(n)).
Upon completion of the Bachelor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the UVA School of Architecture, graduates may be eligible for initial professional licensure in another U.S. state by applying to the licensing board or agency in that state.
Please visit the University’s state authorization web pages to make an informed decision regarding which states’ educational requirements for initial licensure are met by this program. (668.43(a)(5) (v)(A) - (C))
Enrolled students who change their current (or mailing) address to a state other than Virginia should update this information immediately in the Student Information System as it may impact their ability to complete internship, practicum, or clinical hours, use Title IV funds, or meet licensure or certification requirements in the new state. (34 CFR 668.402).
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