Urban and Regional Planning Emphasis

Coordinator: Dr. Bryan Dorsey

Location: Social Science Building, Room 383

Telephone: 801-626-6944

This program provides a special emphasis in Urban and Regional Planning for majors in Botany, Sociology, Geography, Geosciences, Microbiology, Politics, Economics, Zoology, and related fields. The planning emphasis offers students a background in planning by adding a set of core courses to the major of their choice. This allows each student to pursue his discipline and still gain a general understanding of the field of planning.

Urban and Regional Planning

EMPHASIS

ť Grade Requirements: A grade of "C" or better is required for all courses in Urban and Regional Planning (a grade of "C-" is not acceptable).

ť Credit Hour Requirements: A minimum of 18 credit hours.

Course Requirements for Emphasis

Courses Required (6 credit hours)

GEOG 4410 Land Use Planning Techniques & Practices (3)
GEOG 4420 Advanced Planning Techniques (3)

Electives (12 credit hours)

For students completing both a major and a minor, the requirements of the major field will be reduced by fifteen hours. They will be replaced by 12 hours of interdisciplinary courses selected outside the major field from the following.

BTNY LS1403 Environment Appreciation (3)
GEOG 3450 Cartography (3)
GEOG 3460 Advanced Cartography (3)
GEOG 3210 Urban Geography (3)
GEOG 3360 Economic Geography (3)
GEO 4210 Intro to GIS (4)
GEO 2540 Environmental Geology (4)
MICR LS1153 Elementary Public Health (3)
POLS 3700 Intro to Public Administration (3)
POLS 3750 Urban Government & Politics (3)
SOC 2850 Sociology of Cities (3)
SOC DV3850 Sociology of Urban Life (3)
SOC 3300 Environmental Sociology (3)

and a basic statistics course taken in a department of the student's choice.

For students who wish to complete the Planning Emphasis Program in lieu of a minor, GEOG 4410 and 4420 will be required as well as 12 hours of interdisciplinary courses from the above list outside the major field.

Weber State University 2008-2009 Catalog