Comprehensive Planning and Implementation (5 Cr. MUP Core Course)
This course focuses on understanding the comprehensive planning process and learning how to create a comprehensive plan. Students will review and critique a wide range of land use planning and comprehensive plan implementation tools. This course is designed to help students learn planning skills that are critical for their success as a practitioner.
Quantitative Methods in Planning (5 Cr. MUP Core Course)
This course focuses on basic statistical techniques required for analyzing data and information necessary for undertaking planning decisions. It provides students with a foundation to quickly grasp and tackle new or alternative approaches they may encounter in their professional life and, most importantly, gain an understanding that will make them a critical and discerning consumer of quantitative analysis and planning data.
Introduction to Urban Planning (4 Cr. UG Course – Required for Planning Major)
This course is intended to help students understand what urban planning activity is, who does it and to offer insight into why and how it is done in the United States.
Comprehensive Emergency Management (3 Cr. IPM Core Course)
This course is designed to help students gain a better understanding of the practice of Emergency Management (EM) as it applies to the real world and develop skills that will be useful in their career. The primary goal of this course is to promote self-directed study of EM, explore the application of key principles in real-world context, improve collaborative and communication skills in team-driven activities, and develop research and practice skills by working on projects.