The Curriculum

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Core Courses

The core curriculum assists students in developing an understanding of the institutions—social, economic, political, administrative, and legal systems —which provide the context for policy analysis and constrain public choices. The core is also designed to help students develop the ability to identify social goals and normative criteria for evaluating public policies and the analytic skills, both quantitative (e.g., statistics, forecasting, surveys, regional analysis) and non-quantitative, to perform evaluations and produce plans.

The first-semester courses are drawn from traditional disciplines, particularly economics and statistics, and are combined with introductions to the land-use and to theories and the practice of planning. As students proceed through the curriculum, increasing emphasis is placed on the development of critical judgment and insight through the application of theories to realistic planning problems and case studies.

Core curriculum courses are noted in the typical class schedule that follows. Students with sufficient previous course work may request a waiver of a core course.

 

	First Semester
102:200	Analytic Methods in Planning I	3 s.h.
102:202	Land Use Planning: Law and Practice	4 s.h.
102:203	History and Theories of Planning	3 s.h.
102:205	Economics for Policy Analysis I	3 s.h.
102:208	Program Seminar in Planning Practice	1 s.h.

 

	Second Semester
102:201	Analytic Methods in Planning II	3 s.h.
	Electives and area of concentration courses	9 s.h.