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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the forces that drive regional growth and change and assesses the policies and practices that are commonly used in pursuit of economic growth, including industrial targeting, incentives, and human capital development.
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3.00 Credits
Foundational urban transportation concepts, theories, and policies are analyzed in applied contexts. Students explore contemporary problems, and prepare solutions to these problems. The transportation planning process is reviewed and critiqued, including the political and ethical implications surrounding this process. The role of Geographic Information Sciences in transportation planning is examined.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a critical evaluation of the field of planning. The class focuses on the origins and evolution of the discipline, tools of planning practice, and the interrelated planning elements of economic development, social justice and environmental protection.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the field of community planning in urban and rural contexts. Topics may include urbanism, ruralism, sustainability and environmental planning, historic preservation, design, public art, economic (re)development, among others. Various approaches to community planning will be explored including top-down/bureaucratic community planning and grassroots/bottom-up community planning.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the role of local government administrators as leaders and service providers. The course explores an understanding of local political environments and develops an understanding of what they mean in terms of democratic institutions and theory.
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3.00 Credits
The world of the practicing manager is complex. Making decisions with often severe limits on resources and time means that managers must consider various aspects of management - personnel, legal accountability, resource management and ethics - in rapidly changing contexts. This seminar addresses these complexities by exploring particular cases in depth.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an understanding of the nature and dynamics of the American federal system of government: the functions, powers and service delivery capacities of county, municipal and special purpose district governments, the creation of new jurisdictions, the reciprocal influences of local, state, and federal bureaucracies, the grant-in-aid system and revenue sharing among different units of government. A special emphasis is placed on the complex nature of state-local and inter-local relations in an urban setting.
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3.00 Credits
Housing provides the foundation for many aspects of a healthy life and links citizens and families to education, jobs, transportation, community networks, and myriad public services. This course is designed to provide the background necessary to become informed participants in this debate over the future of U.S. housing policy and to develop conceptual tools necessary to formulate and implement housing policy.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the laws and policy that regulate and affect the use of natural resources. The course includes an introduction to the administrative law of federal agencies that regulate the use of public lands and resources.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the legislative, adjudicatory and general policy-making powers of administrative agencies and regulatory commissions, and the scope of judicial review of administrative action. The course is directed primarily toward an analysis of the political nature of bureaucracy, and secondarily toward the procedural requirements for administrative policy-making.
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