OVERVIEW OF UNDERGRADUATE WORK IN URBAN STUDIES: The Urban Studies Program was established at Morehouse College in 1976. The program enjoys an excellent reputation in the nation, and especially among the universities and colleges in Atlanta that offer Urban Studies and City and Regional Planning programs. It is designed to help students determine the underlying structural systems of communities.

SOC 305 Urban & Community Sociology: Analyzes the characteristics and historical background of urbanism, urban regions, and urban communities, along with environmental problems, human relations, personality, institutional functions, and planning. International comparisons are included.

SOC 301 Social Statistics: Introduces skills necessary for general statistical literacy and further study in statistical and social science research techniques using the computer. 

UST 362 Techniques of Urban Planning: Methods and techniques for carrying out descriptive studies of current or anticipated urban conditions. Data collections, analysis and presentation techniques. Methods and models for predicting future conditions, requirements and problems. Steps for developing a planning document.

UST 372 Urban Policy Analysis & Management: Examines and analyzes problems and policy making in urban areas; the role of bureaucracy in urban political systems; service production and delivery; privatization and economic development; management functions (e.g., organizing, planning, budgeting).

UST 413 Housing and Community Development: Analyzes the role of housing and urban renewal in the planning process and community development in the United States. Discusses housing segregation and black employment; the suburbanization of jobs, and the consequent impact of these forces on the revitalization policy of central cities.

UST 420 Transportation Planning & Policy: Historical development of urban transportation planning in the United States; contemporary political and administrative frameworks. Relationship between transportation planning and comprehensive land use planning; transportation policies; characteristics and functions of various modes of urban transportation. 

UST 490 Seminar in Urban Planning & Management: Significant topics in planning and management of urban systems in the United States. Comparative urbanization; and planning and regional development in developing countries. Requires the student to conceive, design, and follow-through on a research project reflecting substantial knowledge of planning and public management. 

MASTERS IN LAND & PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT (MLPD) is an entrepreneurship-oriented program of study which combines MBA-type courses with physical planning, design and construction in an international context.  One of only five Land & Real Estate Development programs in the US, and the only of its kind in a top 10 public university, the program attracts students from practically every academic discipline.

LDEV 664 Market Analysis for Land Development :Techniques and data sources for market analysis for development; analysis for housing development; trade area analysis and market analysis for retail development, analysis for office, industrial parks and for specialized development.

LDEV 667 Development and Design Economy: Interface between the physical and financial dimensions in the design and development process to achieve building and project economics; creating a physical product and a financial venture that responds to social and environmental concerns and to market economy and feasibility analysis.

ACCT 640 Accounting Concepts and Procedures :Accounting concepts and relationships essential to administrative decisions; use of accounting statements and reports as policymaking and policy execution tools.

LDEV 665 Land Development Trends: Exploration of a variety of specialized topics associated with emerging trends in the land development industry

LDEV 673 International Development Planning :International variations in urban growth and land development strategies: savings, aid and trade policy options for cities and regions; international co-development programs; application of planning and urban land development professionals in contemporary global context.

PLAN 629 Neighborhood Revitalization: This course addresses the social, political and economic theory of neighborhoods-their growth, function and design. Students will gain an understanding of how neighborhoods experience change, as well as the consequences of this change for residents.

LDEV 668 Residential Land Development :Strategies, methods and techniques of land development including: site selection criteria, urban infrastructure; market evaluation; conceptual arrangement of land uses and structures; conceptual design and regulatory considerations; lending institutions; location theory; value theories; regulatory agencies.

LDEV 671 Sustainable Development :Sustainability perspectives about values, rights, property and what constitutes an optimum human environment; sustainability principles and case studies emphasizing on-the-ground, incentive-based land development that balances economic growth with environmental quality.

LDEV 661 Site Analysis-Development & Environment: Land development in the context of environment sustainability, human well being and business profitability to foster a restorative economy; environmental easement and site analysis; state, federal and international regulatory issues; and human ecology and the future of land development. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

LDEV 676 Commercial Real Estate Law : Commercial real estate law including legal ownership interest in oil and gas law, real estate sales contracts, financing, instruments and closings, commercial leases and real estate regulations and taxation.

FINC 635 Financial Management for Non-Business Majors: External and internal factors affecting financial decision making in the firm; fundamental concepts of accounting and managerial economics

LDEV 688 Development and Feasibility Design: Plans and venture structures for selected residential and non-residential development projects of varying size analyzed by student multidisciplinary teams with respect to the following; economic feasibility and cash flow and site design plans and costs

MGMT 637 Foundations of Entrepreneurship: Process of launching a new venture; process by which opportunities can be discovered and selected; attributes of entrepreneurs and new venture teams; process of developing business plan; core entrepreneurial strategies—business level, organizational design, marketing, financial; strives to develop competencies, concepts, operational tools relevant to creating, implementing new ventures

LDEV 687 Due Diligence: Selected residential and nonresidential development projects of varying size analyzed by student teams with respect to the following; economic feasibility and cash flow; site analysis and design concept

FINC 670 Real Property Analysis: Provides the economic and financial tools used to analyze real estate investments, new property developments and the redevelopment of existing properties

LDEV 669 Income Property Land Development: Exploration of the characteristics of real estate as an investment, venture and capital structures, the development process, site and financial feasibility, and project funding; strategies, methods and technologies for investment property development utilizing current developments