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Community and Regional Planning Major |
| The Community and Regional Planning major will prepare professional planners who will have strong foundations in theory and practice of community and regional planning with particular focus on small cities and their regional communities. Prospective students will complete 32 credits of core courses in planning theory, history, techniques, methods, ethics, law, and administration. In addition, they will complete 25 credits of required courses from cognate social science disciplines and statistics, to gain additional knowledge and skills relevant to planning. After that students will have the option to to take 12 credits in one of the following areas of specializations: environmental analysis and resource management, local economic development, tourism development and planning, local government, and application of geographic techniques to planning. Students will also have the opportunity to gain pre-professional practical experience through internships. There will be no minor required for the program. |
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REQUIRED CORE (32 hrs.)
| CORP 2560 Intro.to Comm. and Regional Planning |
3 hrs |
| CORP 3000 History and Theory of Planning |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 3010 Fundamentals of GIS |
4 hrs |
| CORP 3030 Planning Inquiry* |
4 hrs |
| CORP 3040 Methods of Planning Analysis |
3 hrs |
| CORP 4030 Planning Law and Administration |
3 hrs |
| CORP 4120 Professional Practice (Internship) |
3 hrs |
| CORP 4560 Seminar in Comm. and Regional Planning |
3 hrs |
| CORP 5700 Cities and Urban Systems |
3 hrs |
| CORP 5580 Planning Studio |
3 hrs |
*Prerequisite: A course in statistics
(STAT 2160, 2600, or 3660)
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REQUIRED OUTSIDE PLANNING (25 hrs.)
| GEOG 1050 Physical Geography |
4 hrs |
| GEOG 2050 Human Geography |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 2650 Introduction to Geospatial Technologies |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 2440 Economic Geography |
3 hrs |
| ECON 2010 Principles of Microeconomics |
3 hrs |
| ECON 2020 Principles of Macroeconomics |
3 hrs |
| PSCI 3000 Urban Politics in the United States |
3 hrs |
| STAT 2160 or 2600 or 3660 |
3 hrs |
ELECTIVE COURSES (12 hrs.)
| ECON 3190 Environmental Economics |
3 hrs |
| ECON 5880 Economic Development |
3 hrs |
| CORP 5430 Transportation Planning |
3 hrs |
| CORP 5540 Outdoor Recreation: Resources and Planning |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 3550 Conservation and Environmental Mang't |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 3100 Introduction to Tourism |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 4080 Tourism Marketing |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 4180 Tourism Development and Planning |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 5440 Studies in Economic Geography |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 5700 Environmenatl Impact Assessment |
3 hrs |
| GEOG 5670 Spatial Analysis |
4 hrs |
| GEOG 5690 Intermediate GIS |
4 hrs |
| GEOG 5820 Remote Sensing of the Environment |
4 hrs |
| HIST 3240 Everyday Life in America |
3 hrs |
| HIST 4100 Historic Preservation |
3 hrs |
| PSCI 2020 State and Local Government |
4 hrs |
| PSCI 3040 Introduction to Public Policy |
3 hrs |
| PSCI Environmental Politics |
3 hrs |
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