URSP250: The Sustainable City: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges. Undergraduate general education course; An exploration, through an interdisciplinary approach, of a number of issues related to making cities more sustainable in terms of environmental protection, economic opportunity, and social justice. The course assist students to develop skills in critical analysis and systems thinking and to use those skills in analyzing sustainability related problems and potential solutions, and to expand students' understanding of the political implications of crafting and moving towards a sustainable urban future. 3 credits.
IVSP420: Individual Studies Program Senior Paper/Project. Undergraduate Individual Studies Senior Thesis/Capstone Project is a significant research project synthesizing the interdisciplinary course of study of an IVSP program. 3 credits.
URSP603: Land Use Planning: Concepts and Techniques. Graduate course; Land use concepts and definitions: legal context for planning; markets and planning; planning for housing; community services, employment, utilities, and transportation; zoning; subdivision regulations; growth management; plan implementation. 3 credits.
URSP640: Growth Management and Environmental Planning. Graduate course; Topics associated with growth management, defined as policies and strategies by which governments attempted to control the amount, location, pace, pattern and quality of development within their jurisdictions. 3 credits.
ARCH679: Advanced Independent Studies in Architecture; Independent Study in Architecture. Undergraduate course; Content varies, students work with faculty advisor to create coursework. 1-4 credits.
URSP688A: Community Resilience: Hazard Mitigation, Adaptation, and Disaster Recovery Planning. Graduate course; Introduction to the concept of resilience, particularly as it relates to supporting community resilience through hazard mitigation, adaption, and disaster recovery planning. This course will explore, through a multihazard approach (i.e. natural, environmental, technological, etc.), the necessary connection between recovery and mitigation; because, without mitigation, recovery can and often does set the stage for reoccurring disasters. 3 credits.
URSP688B: Urban Infrastructure Planning and Public Works. Graduate course; This course aims to introduce the range of infrastructure systems (e.g., water/sewer, energy, technology, telecommunications, transportation, community facilities, etc.) that serve urban development and the basics of how to develop an infrastructure plan, program, or project from the perspective of a practicing planner. We will also explore public works as the process by which infrastructure related services are usually provided to communities by way of local municipalities. 3 credits.
ENCE688T: Advanced Topics in Civil Engineering; Disaster Resilience Seminar. Graduate course; This seminar will address varied topics in identifying, analyzing, assessing, and managing engineered systems resilient to natural, anthropogenic, and other hazards. This seminar series comprises guest lectures and internal faculty and student presentations on topics related to disaster resilience. Examples are drawn from foundational concepts; hazard science; planning, engineering, and design; risk and resilience assessment; and implementation. 3 credits.
URSP709: Field Instruction. Graduate course. 3 credits.
URSP898: Pre-Candidacy Research. 1-8 credits.
URSP899: Doctoral Dissertation Research. 6 credits.