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BA - Planning for Sustainable Communities

Planning for Sustainable Communities

This concentration is designed for students who would like to follow a pre-professional curriculum in planning. Please Note: This is the teach out plan and changes are noted in bold italics.

Foundation Courses

Concentration (21 Unit Minimum)

Must take at least one 400 level capstone course during junior/senior year. Breadth courses not double counted in concentration.

Group I (all required) Units GE
GEP 362 Environmental Impact Assessment 3-4  
GEP 461 Planning Practice and Methodology 4  
Group II (choose two) Units GE
GEP 363 Natural Resource Planning 4  
GEP 336 Environmental Law 4  
GEP 367 Transportation Policy and Technology 3-4  
GEP 368 Urban Design 3-4  
GEP 370 Globalization and the City 4  
GEP 371 Social Geography of the American City 3  
GEP 489 Advanced GIS 4  

Supporting Courses

Take two courses (GEOL 303 & 304=single course) Substitutions possible Units GE
ANTH 352 Global Issues 4  
BIOL 131 Biol. Div. & Ecology 3-4  
ECON 204 Macroecon. 4 D5
ECON 205 Microecon. 4 D2
ECON 381 Nat. Res. & Env. Econ. 4  
GEOL 323 Hydrology 4  
GEOL 306 Environmental Geology 4  
GEOL 303/ Adv. Prin. of Geol. (must take w/GEOL 304)    
GEOL 304/ Map & Rep. Writing 5 B3
HIST 471 The American West 4  
POLS 314 Environ. Political Theory 4  
POLS 452 Politics of the Developing World 4  
SOCI 425 Urban Sociology 4  
SOCI 482 Sociology of the Environment 4  
SSCI 299 Soph. Seminar: How to Think Like a Social Scientist 3 E
WGS 385 Transnational Feminisms 4