Urban & Regional Planning / Required Courses

Planning principles and issues - all of these:

• GEO 101 Global Forces, Local Diversity (3)
• GEO 201 Geography of Urban Diversity (3)
• GEO 451 Urban and Regional Planning (3)
• GEO 459 Advanced Urban and Regional Planning (3)

Development issues - one of these:

• GEO 454 Urban Geography (3)
• GEO 457 Global Cities, World Economy (3)
• GEO 464 Marketing Geography (3)
• GEO 467 Land Use, Law & the State: Geographic Perspectives (3)
• GEO 473 Development & Underdevelopment (3)
• GEO 492 Geography of the Auto Industry (3)
• GEO 493 Urban Field Experience (3)
• Selected GEO 460 courses with permission of primary adviser

Social issues - one of these:

• AMS 204 Introduction to Public History (3)
• ARC 405.H Habitat and Human Settlement (3)
• ARC 405.Q Housing Case Studies (3)
• ARC 427 The American City Since 1940 (3)
• ATH/GTY 476 Environment and Aging (3)
• BWS/SOC 325 Identity: Race, Gender, Class (3)
• BWS/SOC 348 American Minority Relations (3)
• BWS/SOC 362 Family Poverty (3)
• GEO 455 Race, Urban Change, and Conflict in America (3)
• GEO 458 Cities of Difference (3)
• GEO 462 Public Space (3)
• GEO 476 Global Poverty (3)
• SOC 234 Historic Preservation (3)
• SOC 347 Comparative Urban Ecology (3)
• Selected GEO 460 courses with permission of primary adviser

Administration and politics - one of these:

• ECO 331 Public Sector Economics (3)
• ECO 385 Government & Business (3)
• ECO 435 Urban & Regional Economics (3)
• GEO 475 Third World Urbanizations (3)
• POL 261 Public Administration (4)
• POL 362 Administrative Politics and Decision Making (4)
• POL 363 Administrative Law (3)
• POL 364 Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations (3)
• POL 467 Public Budgeting (3)
• POL 468 Public Personnel Administration (3)

Analytic techniques for planning -

• GEO 241 Map Interpretation (3)
• STA 261  Statistics (4)

Other tools - one of these:

• GEO 437 Regional Land Use Capability Analysis (3)
• GEO 441 Geographic Information Systems (3)
• GEO 442 Advanced Geographic Information Systems (3)
• GEO 447 Aerial Photo Interpretation (4)
• GEO 448 Techniques & Applications of Remote Sensing (3)
• Selected GEO 460 courses with permission of primary adviser

Concentration

Choose courses in one of these tracks to reach 40 hours in the major; normally 2 or 3 courses are needed.

• a. Development track
• b. Social track
• c. Analytic track
• d. General track

Internship

Seniors who have completed most of their required courses are strongly encouraged to do an internship with a local planning agency. Positions for qualified students are arranged by the urban and regional planning advisers. The internship must be taken for credit/no credit, and the hours earned do not count towards the 40 semester hours needed for the major, although they do count towards the 128 semester hours needed to graduate from Miami. The internship is normally done for 3 semester hours.