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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Explores various approaches with influencing public knowledge, awareness, and understanding toward our natural and urban environments. Develops competency and skills for environmental design practitioners and community planners who have an interest in, or a responsibility for, presenting environmental information and planning outcomes. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: PD 10 or permission of instructor Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines ways in which education influences, and is influenced by, urban communities. Considers how educational institutions can respond to conditions and issues that exist in urban environments. Reviews challenges confronting communities and urban education e.g., urban problems, community relations, environmental design, and government policies related to education and urban development. Explores and identifies opportunities for collaboration and partnerships between urban education institutions and community planning. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Explores current issues found in urban and built environments, examines associated problems and processes, and reviews possible community solutions. Topics vary annually. In the past, the course has covered U.S.-Canadian border issues. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Traces evolution of urban form and character from Greek city-states to the present. Emphasizes how technological, social, economic, and political changes affect urban layout and functioning.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Provides insights to the process and outcomes of local government decision-making. Topics include the types and powers of various local government entities, including: the influence of politics, how governments determine agendas, and implement projects/policies.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: PD 12 Corequisites: None Type: LEC Historic preservation theory related to urban and environmental planning, emphasizing preservation practice, including tools of effective preservation, legislation, community roles, economics, adaptive use, and management. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
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6.00 Credits
Credits: 6 Prerequisites: junior standing and environmental design major Corequisites: None Type: SEM Provides students with research methodologies in gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating qualitative and quantitative information about the contemporary urban environment and its possible futures. Data sources include U.S. Census materials, state and regional agency databases, community master plans, historical archives, and online and hardcopy reports and surveys.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines, uses, and assesses urban information systems, such as signage, environmental data, and neighborhood demographics. Involves lectures, discussions, and fieldwork. May be offered on an intermittent basis.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LAB/SEM Covers basics of geographic information systems (GIS) and other computing tools for understanding, mapping, and analyzing natural and built environments. Includes weekly computer lab.
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6.00 Credits
Credits: 6 Prerequisites: junior standing and environmental design major Corequisites: None Type: SEM Examines modes of visual literacy for comprehending the built environment. Introduces rudimentary graphic representation skills for visually communicating urban planning and design concepts through readings and hands-on exercises. Class activities include drawing, drafting, design fundamentals, generating computer graphics, and urban observation.
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