Graduate Degree Courses of Urban and Regional Planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Urban and Regional Planning Courses For Graduate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University
UAP 4184 - Community Involvement
Issues, concepts, and techniques of citizen participation in community development. Institutional frameworks and their historical precedents. Exercises developing group communications skills, public meeting facilitation, and design of community involvement programs.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4214 - Women, Environment and Development in A Global Perspective
Explores intersecting roles of gender, culture, and socio-economic status in people’s use of nature, management of environmental resources, and experiences of environmental change. Examines debates on environmental and development initiatives, environmental ethics, and environmental social movements from feminist perspectives. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4244 - Non-profit Organization and Management
Examines the role of the non-profit sector in American society. Also analyzes the role of important sub-sectors within the nation’s third sector and explores key management challenges confronting non-profit organization leaders within them. Junior standing required. I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4264 - Environmental Ethics and Policy
Issues in applied environmental ethics. Contributions of diverse religious and philosophical traditions to contemporary perspectives on the human-nature relationship. Examination of environmental policies from utilitarian economic, deep ecology, and ecofeminist perspectives. Junior, senior or graduate standing required. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4284 - Environment, Politics & Planning: Comparative Applied Political Ecology
Uses political ecology concepts, linking environmental change and social difference, to address practical problems where social justice and environmental management intersect at multiple spatial scales and institutional levels. Junior or senior standing required. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4304 - Non-Profit Organization Leadership and Governance
This course explores the major conceptual issues related to developing an understanding of the foundations and roles of leadership and governance of third sector and nongovernmental organizations. The course focus is explicitly comparative and contextual and is designed to equip students with the capacities to assess and improve governing board effectiveness as well as to devise and implement leadership strategies in the complex structural, social and political contexts in which nonprofit organizations are typically enmieshed both in the United States and other industrialized democracies and in developing nations.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4344 - Law of Critical Environmental Areas
This course examines the legal principles and policy debates involved in the regulation and protection of critical environmental resources. Specific topics vary but will likely include wetlands law and policy, endangered species habitat, open space, forestland and farmland protection, costal zone management, and floodplain regulation and policy.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4374 - Land Use and Environment: Planning and Policy
Environmental factors involved in land use planning and development, including topography, soils, geologic hazards, flooding and stormwater management, ecological features, and visual quality. Techniques used in conducting environmental land inventories and land suitability analyses. Policies and programs to protect environmental quality in land use planning and development.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4384 - Pollution Control Planning and Policy
Planning and policy aspects of managing residuals and environmental contaminants and their effects on human health and environmental quality. Technical and economic factors involved in management of water quality, air quality, solid and hazardous wastes, toxic substances, and noise. Implementation of pollution control legislation, policies, and programs at federal, state, and local levels.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4394 - Community Renewable Energy Systems
Practical design fundamentals for small scale renewable energy systems: solar building heating and cooling; solar domestic hot water; wind, photovoltaic, and hydroelectric systems; alcohol, methane and other biomass conversion systems. Developing plans, programs, and policies to stimulate development of renewable systems.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4404 (NR 4404) (ALS 4404) - Approaches To International Development
An introduction to issues relating to international development. The course will focus on areas to help students better understand the interdependencies between countries and how institutions and organizations can foster effective working relationships on global projects of mutual interest between countries. I.
Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4604 - Social Policy and Planning
A survey of the history of social policy in the United States of existing federal, state, and local statutes that define the character of contemporary social policy and planning and of issues that are likely to affect the direction of future social policy developments. Policy areas considered include income maintenance, health, housing, and labor force development.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4714 (ECON 4714) - Economics and Financing of State and Local Governments
Examines the provision and financing of public goods and services in local governments. Analyzes associated policy issues. Reviews experience in Western Europe and developing countries, as well as in the United States. Must complete prerequisites UAP 3024 with B- grade or higher, and ECON 2005 and 2006 with C grade or higher.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4724 - Capital Budgeting and Strategic Facilities Planning
Examines the principles and practice of capital budgeting as a primary instrument for the effectuation of long-range public policy objectives. Capital budgeting forms a critical bridge between strategic planning and the delivery of vital public services. Strategic facilities are public improvements that have a relatively long life, involve substantial investment of public resources, and yield fixed assets for the community or organization.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4744 - Principles of Real Estate
Examines the relationship between the real estate market and urban development. Focuses on the private sector real estate market and how it responds to and shapes urban policy and urban planning practices.
Credit Hours: 4
Lecture Hours: 4
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4754 - Legal Foundations of Planning
Examination of the legal context in which urban planning and public policy operate. Legal structure, role of law, powers of sovereign governments, constitutional limitations on government activities, and public-private conflict and their influence on planning and public policy are examined.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4764 (SOC 4764) (GEOG 4764) - International Development Policy and Planning
Examination of major development theories and contemporary issues and characteristics of low-income societies (industrialization, urbanization, migration, rural poverty, hunger, foreign trade, and debt) that establish contexts for development planning and policy-making. Junior standing required. I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4854 - Planning of the Urban Infrastructure
Course examines the interdependences among the elements of the built environment of the city and those between the elements of the built environment and the policy/planning structure of the city. Considered are those elements associated with the primary urban activities (residential, commercial, industrial) as well as the urban form-giving infrastructure facilities that support those land uses (water supply, sewerage, solid waste disposal, transportation, education, recreation, health, and safety).
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 4964H - Honors Field Study
Credit Hours: 1 to 19
Lecture Hours: 1 to 19
Level(s): Undergraduate and Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4
UAP 5004 (PAPA 5004) - Power and Policy in the US
Social science theory and research on the distribution of power in the US, especially as it shapes important national policy outcomes. Institutional and class bases of power will be examined, including membership on corporate boards and in policy-shaping think tanks. Implications for democracy in society will be drawn. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5034 (PAPA 5034) (GIA 5034) - Democratic Governance in the Economy
An international and comparative examination of workplace and economic relations around the world, with special focus on efforts to build collaborative work processes that would extend the voice, ownership and control rights of workers. The interface between state institutions and economic organizations is also considered, especially insofar as government prescriptions and processes that may impede or extend democratic governance of the economy. Graduate Standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5104 (GIA 5104) - Urban and Regional Development Theory
An examination and critique of theories relating to socio-economic development and change at three major scales (international, national/regional, and intra-urban) and of theories relating to the linkages between the dominant processes operating at these major scales. Particular emphasis is given to the role of the state in urban and regional development.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5114 - Computer Applications in Urban Planning and Management
An examination of a wide range of computer-based techniques that are of value in analyzing urban and regional planning and management problems. Techniques include linear programming, goal programming; modeling of complex systems; and decision modeling. May be repeated with different content for a maximum of 12 credits.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5124 - Urban and Regional Planning Studio
Application of planning strategies to solve urban problems encountered in professional practice. Includes methods and techniques for securing and analyzing relevant data; identifying goals and objectives; formulating proposals; formulating strategies to implement proposals; presentation of findings. May be repeated with a different studio application for a maximum of 6 credits.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5154 (GIA 5154) - Global Accountabilities- Urban Management
Provides a comparative perspective on “accountability” among nonprofit and non-governmental organizations, private corporations, governmental organizations, and inter-governmental organizations. Theories and practices of accountability, reporting, monitoring, compliance and learning are considered.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5164 (PSCI 5164) - Collaborative Governance and Civil Society
Theoretical foundations of collaborative policy and governance approaches are examined. Strategies and methods for forming and sustaining collaborative coalitions are discussed. Case studies are used to illustrate the effectiveness of collaborative approaches in different policy domains. I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5174 - Theory and Practice of Urban and Regional Planning
Theoretical foundations of urban and regional planning. Methods and procedures employed in the professional practice of planning. Examination of the interdependence of planning theory and planning practice.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5184 - Local Planning Administration- Planning Administration Topics
Role of local legislative bodies, planning commissions, administrators, and the public in local planning activities. Responsibilities of professional planners in local planning activities. Emphasis is placed on methods of implementing local planning programs. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credits. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Lecture Hours: 1 to 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5194 - Urban Growth Mgmt
Examines regulatory and financial techniques for controlling and guiding urban development. Evaluates their advantages and disadvantages with respect to development circumstances. Focus is primarily on the practice of local and state governments in the U.S. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5204 (GEOG 5204) - The Geography of Third World Development
Geographical, historical, and ecological perspectives on Third World development. Applicability of development theory to particular case studies. Problems in planning and constraints on economic development. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5224 - Quantitative Techniques in Planning
A presentation of research techniques used in urban and regional planning with an emphasis on predictive techniques and the use of the computer.
Credit Hours: 0 to 4
Lecture Hours: 0 to 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lab, Lecture
UAP 5234 - Urban Economy and Public Policy
This course applies principles of urban economics and microeconomics to the analysis of a range of urban problems, including: housing, employment, environmental quality, poverty, and the provision of urban services.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5244 - Multicultural
Examines the growing ethnic and demographic diversity of urban United States. Stresses theories and techniques that can be used to bring about more inclusive planning and public policies at all levels of government. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5254 (PSCI 5254) (GIA 5254) - Global Conflicts
Examines theoretical issues in the study of global conflicts. Reviews theories of nationalism, states and territory as factors. Examines dynamics of contemporary conflicts from different regions of globe as case studies illustrating theoretical issues. Reviews role of leaders in conflict processes. Graduate Standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course
UAP 5264 (GEOG 5264) - Global Change and Local Impacts
All jurisdictions, national, regional, or local, function in an interconnected global market. Understanding the structure and interactions within that global market and the impacts therein is the focus of UAP 5264. Thematic topics include a review of welfare state functions, privatization, decentralization, and nonprofit organizations and their relation to global market dynamics. Upon completion of the courses, students will have an understanding of how global forces influence local areas and how local leaders have developed strategies to cope with their position in an increasingly global market. I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5274 (GIA 5274) - Comparative Social Movements
This course will investigate the forms of public protest that occur all over the world, with special attention to activism in poor nations and to the recent emergence of transnational movements. Also examines why and when governments repress social movements. Explores movements that are grounded in collective identities based in class, race/ethnicity, gender, religion, and culture. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5284 (PSCI 5284) (GIA 5284) - Transnational Migration
Overview of the dynamics, policies, governance, and citizenship regimes associated with the phenomenon of transnational migration. The course will emphasize local, national, and supranational examples and comparisons to explore these themes. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5304 - Land Use Planning
Procedures for: (1) identifying the type, magnitude, and locational characteristics of urban land uses; (2) making projections of future land use; and (3) preparation of land use plans.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5314 - Social Analysis of Land Use Planning
Examines the underlying social and cultural values which shape U.S. land use and zoning policies. Analyzes zoning ordinances, historic preservation, environmental planning, housing, and urban design policies for their explicit and cultural meanings. I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5354 - Charity, Philanthropy and Civil Society
This course treats the evolution of philanthropy and charity in the United States and abroad and introduces major issues and continuing concerns linked to the institutiuons engaged in these activities while exploring their ties to civil society. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5364 - Non-Governmental Organizations in International Development
Explores theory and cases of non-governmental organizations in international development. Analyzes various roles of NGOs, and their interactions with local communities, government agencies, international organizations, and private businesses. Examines tensions and collaborations between NGOs and other development actors, drawing from cases in environmental, health, and educational policy domains. II.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5384 - Housing and Infrastructure Planning in the Third World
An introduction to housing problems in developing countries and alternative policy approaches to them. The course examines the formal and informal housing sectors and asks why the housing sector is important for both national governments and international organizations. It traces changes in the way housing problems have been identified and in the solutions proposed to them. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5394 - Nature, Society and the Global Economy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Graduate seminar examines social theories of environmental change (e.g. social ecology, ecofeminism, political economy, environmental history, neo-classical and neo-malthusian perspectives). Environmental degradation is situated in the context of global economic development, providing a framework for critical analysis of alternative conceptions of society-nature relationships. Book reviews, term paper, student presentations required. Second-year grad standing and permission of instructor required. I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5404 - Strategies for Urban Development in the Third World
Analysis of the reciprocal relationships between development and urbanization as they occur within a Third World context. The nature of those relationships at different scales - international, regional, and urban - are considered from the standpoint of different strategies of development.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5414 - Natural Resources Planning Topics
The natural resource planning process as implemented by federal public lands and water resources agencies in the U.S. Public participation, environmental impact assessment, and resource evaluation methods used in planning and decision-making. Applications to resources planning in developing countries. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credits. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Lecture Hours: 1 to 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5424 - Metropolitan Planning Topics
A topics course focusing on the methods and techniques of evaluating physical development needs of metropolitan areas their sub-areas. Emphasis on elements of land use, physical development needs, representation, and the role of comprehensive plans and implementing regulatory ordinances (zoning, land subdivision regulations, building codes, environmental regulations). May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credits.
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Lecture Hours: 1 to 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Lecture 8, Lecture 9, Lecture 10, Lecture 11, Lecture 12, Lecture 13, Lecture 14, Lecture 15, Lecture 16, Lecture 17, Lecture 18, Lecture 19
UAP 5434 - Urban Development Project Review Studio
A studio focusing on the theory, methods, and techniques of evaluating physical development projects. Emphasis on evaluation criteria implied in public policy, as expressed in comprehensive plans and implementing regulatory ordinances (zoning, land subdivision regulations, building codes, environmental regulations).
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5444 - Strategic Planning and Management
An examination of different processes and procedures for generic planning and management of a strategic nature. Particular emphasis on analytical techniques, especially Artificial Intelligence, that are used in the process.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5454 - Nonprofit Organization & Management
Examines the nonprofit sector in American society and compares those roles with the roles the sector plays in other advanced democracies as well as in developing countries. Also analyzes the role of important sub sectors within the nation’s third sector and explores key management challenges confronting non-profit organization leaders with them. Compares those challenges to those found in nongovernmental organizations in developing nations. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5464 (PAPA 5464) (GIA 5464) - Qualitative Research Methods in Global Studies
Examines the philosophies and procedures guiding various qualitative methods used in the social science fields, such as global studies, planning and policy. Exploration of alternative understandings of normal science and consideration of the merits of adopting qualitative research approaches to disciplined analysis, including ethical issues in research. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5474 - Program Evaluation
Conceptual approaches and methodological techniques for evaluating national, regional, and local human services programs. Examination of issues relevant to the function of evaluation research and the role of evaluators.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5484 - Advanced Urban Research Methodology
The various methodological approaches used in the fields of urban planning and in public policy to analyze causes of problems and thus suggest policy recommendations. Emphasis is on defining the research problem, developing an appropriate research design, data collection, and fundamental techniques of data analysis.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5494 - Advanced Quantitative Techniques for Urban Research
Advanced quantitative techniques used in urban analysis. Application of the methods to situations encountered in urban planning, urban policy analysis, and urban management are stressed.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5504 (PSCI 5504) (GIA 5504) - Discourse Analysis
Examines the key theoretical sources and major practical applications of discourse analysis as a contemporary social science methodology. Origins, major variants, and critical uses of discourse analysis in cultural studies, semiotic methods, policy analysis, and organizational communication techniques also are considered. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course
UAP 5514 - Public Budgeting and Management
Examines public budgeting and management theories, concepts, policies, processes, and practices, and their effects on federal, state, and local governments. Theoretical aspects of budgeting and management control are related to practical budgeting issues and exercises. Attention is also given to the internal management of the budgeting function.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5524 (GIA 5524) - Internat Development
Social and cultural factors in the development of societies, including the role of women in development. Contemporary developing countries, and historical material from developed countries; policy issues facing governments of developing countries and those interested in assisting their development.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5534 - Nonprofit Organization Leadership and Governance
Major conceptual issues related to developing an understanding of the foundations and roles of leadership and governance of third sector and nongovernmental organizations. Comparison of nongovernmental organizations in the U.S. and around the world. The course is designed to equip students with the capacities to assess and improve organizational governance effectiveness as well as to devise and implement leadership strategies in the complex structural, social and political contexts in which these organizations are typically enmeshed in the United States as well as in other industrialized democracies and in developing nations. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5544 - Public and Non-profit Financial Management
Examines concepts central to effective financial management of public and non-profit organizations. Affords students an opportunity to further their understanding of the relationship between financial accounting and reporting systems and effective organization management. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5554 - Land Use Law
State enabling legislation; police power of the state; nuisance; land use regulation; subdivision regulation; exclusionary zoning; growth management; environmental controls.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5564 - Information Technology, Society, and Public Policy
Social impacts of new and emerging information technologies from a public policy perspective. Technical nature of IT and influences of IT on four core dimensions of society: political, economic, cultural, and spatial. Course integrates theoretical and philosophical literature on IT with applied policy and planning issues.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5574 (PSCI 5574) (GIA 5574) - Arts, Culture and Society
Considers the role of the arts in society, including architecture, music companies, or theater productions to heritage sites, science museums, and art galleries. Effective arts policy in revitalizing urban economies also examined. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5584 (STS 5584) (PSCI 5584) (GIA 5584) - Environmental Politics and Policy
Course provides a broad introduction to the key ideas, actors and institutions related to environmental politics and policy in the United States, with some coverage of global issues. It is intended to provide students with basic interdisciplinary knowledge and an intellectual framework for understanding and thinking critically about environmental politics and policy.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5594 - Nonprofit Law and Ethics
Explores the legal, ethical and normative systems affecting nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, both domestically and internationally. Examines the historical foundations of legal regulation and professional ethics within the sector and how these systems contribute to the administration and governance of nonprofit and nongovernamental organizations. Also surveys current theories of nonprofit/nongovernmental organization regulation as well as major legal and ethical issues confronting the sector. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5604 - Housing Planning and Policy Topics
An examination of national and local housing markets with emphasis on the impact of various public housing policies on the demand for and supply of housing within these markets. The relationships between public and private delivery systems. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Lecture Hours: 1 to 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5614 - Public Ecology
Examines policy developments and practices that move beyond the conceptual divisions and policy operations begun during the 1970s, which largely divided the more natural science- based environmental sciences from social science-based environmental based studies. Mixes the insights of life science, physical science, social science, applied humanities, and public policy into a cohesive conceptual and operational approach to environmental protection in the 21st century. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5634 (ARCH 5634) - Urban Design Studio
Urban design studio projects involving the translation of design and planning theory and methodology to actual form-giving proposals for the urban context. Emphasis will be on the development of urban tectonic form in response to functional and behavioral planning, symbolic and aesthetic factors. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
Credit Hours: 0 to 12
Lecture Hours: 0 to 12
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5644 (CEE 5644) - Transportation Systems Planning
Advanced consideration of problems dealing with transportation systems as they affect the socio-economic development of cities, regions, and nations; the travel behavior of a populace; the location of economic activity; the use of land; and the allocation of resources. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5654 (GIA 5654) - Environmental Risk Analysis
This course will provide an overview of risk analysis as it pertains to environmental policy, including distinguishing among various concepts of risk, methods employed in risk analysis, public policies regarding risk analysis, the challenges of risk communication, proposed alternative approaches to risk assessment, and the political controversies surrounding risk analysis in the broad field of environmental regulation.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5674 - Financial Health of Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Concepts and analytical capacities necessary to evaluate the overall level of financial health of governmental and nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations. Examines the tools and techniques necessary to assess the financial condition of the organizations and to determie if they have the capacity to carry out their purposes and address their debt obligations. Graduate Standing required.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5684 - Health Planning
Examines the practice of planning within the different health system environments. Reviews the philosophies and methods of health planning as applied to the U.S. experience and other national settings. Projects are employed to give students direct, practical experience in health planning. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5694 - Asset Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Provides an understanding of asset management for governmental and nonprofit/nongovernmental entities. Focuses on the essentials of cash budgeting and cash management, investment of endowments and pension funds, and debt management and debt financing for governmental and nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5704 - Electronic Governance
Examines applications of information technology in government from the point of view of governments and citizens. Survey of the relationship between e-government and e-democracy and of government management techniques. Explores problematic issues related to e-government, such as privacy, the digital divide, and information security.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course
UAP 5714 - Community Building Seminar
A comprehensive examination of community development theories and methods. Emphasizes community contexts across the scales of family, association, neighborhood, city, region, and nation. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5744 - Planning Internship
Student placement in an organization engaged in planning or related work with the guidance of a faculty member. Pass/Fail only. Variable credit course. Maximum of three credit hours per semester, but may be repeated for a total of six credit hourse.
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Lecture Hours: 1 to 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5754 - Metropolitan Planning Seminar- Prof Developmt Colloq
Issues, concepts, and debates surrounding contemporary metropolitan planning and development policy through discussions, special lectures by faculty, and/or guest lectures by experts prominent in their field. May be repeated for a maximum of four credits.
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Lecture Hours: 1 to 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5764 - International Development Studio
International development project initiation and institutional framework; project design processes, criteria, and methods; implementation and evaluation design processes, criteria, and methods. Examination of case projects by public and private donor agencies as a basis for project design. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5774 - Econ Develp Studio
Principles, concepts, and techniques related to economic development at either the local and regional scale are brought to bear in solving a development problem. Emphasis is on problems which are encountered in planning or implementing economic development.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5784 - Economic Development Planning Topics
An introduction to local economic development programs. Covers intergovernmental relations, financing techniques, federal and local subsidies, advertising, marketing, public relations, labor market issues, tax considerations, fiscal impact analysis, and land use planning issues. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credits. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 1 to 3
Lecture Hours: 1 to 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5794 - Environ Plan Studio
Application of environmental planning techniques involving either land use or residuals mangement in a specific project.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5804 - Practicum Problem
The practicum is one option (together with the major paper and thesis) which MUA and MURP Degree candidates may elect to complete their degree requirements. It is intended to provide the candidate with an opportunity to demonstrate: (1) a required degree of comprehension of the concepts, principles and techniques relevant to these fields, and (2) the ability to apply this understanding in a professional manner in a situation which simulates professional practice.
Credit Hours: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5844 - Topics in Planning History
A topics course on the history of planning. Emphasis on social, cultural, economic, legal and political influences shaping planning and planning movements from historical perspectives. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credits. Graduate standing required.
Credit Hours: 1 to 9
Lecture Hours: 1 to 9
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5894 (WOOD 5894) (VMS 5894) (TA 5894) (STAT 5894) (SOC 5894) (PSCI 5894) (PHYS 5894) (NR 5894) (MSCI 5894) (MKTG 5894) (MGT 5894) (MATH 5894) (ISE 5894) (HORT 5894) (HIST 5894) (HD 5894) (GEOG 5894) (FOR 5894) (FIW 5894) (FIN 5894) (ESM 5894) (ENGR 5894) (ENGL 5894) (EDVT 5894) (EDPE 5894) (EDHL 5894) (EDCT 5894) (EDCI 5894) (EDAE 5894) (ECPE 5894) (ECON 5894) (ECE 5894) (CS 5894) (COMM 5894) (CHEM 5894) (CEE 5894) (BSE 5894) (BMVS 5894) (BIT 5894) (ARCH 5894) (APSC 5894) (AOE 5894) (ACIS 5894) (AAEC 5894) - Final Examination
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Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5904 (TA 5904) (STAT 5904) (PPWS 5904) (PHYS 5904) (PAPA 5904) (NR 5904) (NE 5904) (MSE 5904) (MKTG 5904) (MINE 5904) (ME 5904) (ISE 5904) (HTM 5904) (HORT 5904) (GIA 5904) (GEOG 5904) (FST 5904) (FOR 5904) (FIW 5904) (ESM 5904) (ENT 5904) (ENGR 5904) (EDPE 5904) (EDHL 5904) (EDCT 5904) (EDCI 5904) (ECPE 5904) (ECE 5904) (DASC 5904) (CSES 5904) (CS 5904) (COMM 5904) (CHEM 5904) (CHE 5904) (CEE 5904) (BSE 5904) (BMES 5904) (BC 5904) (ARCH 5904) (APSC 5904) (AOE 5904) (ALS 5904) (AHRM 5904) (AEE 5904) (AAEC 5904) - Project and Report
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Credit Hours: 1 to 19
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Research
UAP 5924 - Peace Corp Enrollment
Credit Hours: 0
Lecture Hours: 0
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5954 - Study Abroad
Credit Hours: 1 to 19
Lecture Hours: 1 to 19
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5964 (NR 5964) (MGT 5964) (HTM 5964) (HNFE 5964) (GRAD 5964) (EDCT 5964) (ECPE 5964) (ECE 5964) (ALS 5964) (AEE 5964) - Field Study
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Credit Hours: 1 to 19
Lecture Hours: 1 to 19
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture
UAP 5974 (WS 5974) (WOOD 5974) (VMS 5974) (TA 5974) (STS 5974) (STAT 5974) (SPAN 5974) (SOC 5974) (PSYC 5974) (PSCI 5974) (PPWS 5974) (PHYS 5974) (PHIL 5974) (PAPA 5974) (NR 5974) (NE 5974) (MUS 5974) (MSE 5974) (MSCI 5974) (MKTG 5974) (MINE 5974) (MGT 5974) (MESC 5974) (ME 5974) (MATH 5974) (MACR 5974) (LAT 5974) (LAR 5974) (LAHS 5974) (JPN 5974) (ISE 5974) (HTM 5974) (HR 5974) (HORT 5974) (HNFE 5974) (HIST 5974) (HD 5974) (GRAD 5974) (GIA 5974) (GER 5974) (GEOS 5974) (GEOL 5974) (GEOG 5974) (GEN 5974) (GBCB 5974) (FST 5974) (FR 5974) (FOR 5974) (FL 5974) (FIW 5974) (FIN 5974) (ESM 5974) (ENT 5974) (ENGR 5974) (ENGL 5974) (ENGE 5974) (EDVT 5974) (EDTE 5974) (EDPE 5974) (EDP 5974) (EDHL 5974) (EDCT 5974) (EDCI 5974) (EDAE 5974) (ECPE 5974) (ECON 5974) (ECE 5974) (DASC 5974) (CSES 5974) (CS 5974) (COMM 5974) (CHEM 5974) (CHE 5974) (CEE 5974) (BSE 5974) (BMVS 5974) (BMES 5974) (BIT 5974) (BIOL 5974) (BCHM 5974) (BC 5974) (ASPT 5974) (ART 5974) (ARCH 5974) (APSC 5974) (AOE 5974) (ALS 5974) (AHRM 5974) (AFST 5974) (AEE 5974) (ACIS 5974) (AAEC 5974) - Independent Study
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Credit Hours: 1 to 19
Lecture Hours: 1 to 19
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Independent Study, Independent Study 1, Independent Study 2
UAP 5984 - Special Study
Credit Hours: 1 to 19
Lecture Hours: 1 to 10
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lab, Lecture, Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Online Course
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