Community Development | Concentrations

All Community Development students must select one of the following concentrations:

Community Organization and Change
Housing and Economic Development
Communications and Community Development

Community Organization and Change

Required (23 credits)

  • USP 311 Introduction to Urban Planning (4 cr)
  • USP 426 Neighborhood Conservation and Change (4 cr)
  • USP 428 Concepts of Community Development (4 cr)
  • USP 429 Poverty in the Urban Community (3 cr)
  • USP 430 Urban Studies Research Methods (4 cr)
  • USP 450 Concepts of Citizen Participation (4 cr)

Choose 4 courses from among the following:

  • USP 312 Urban Housing and Development (4 cr)
  • USP 313 Urban Planning: Environmental Issues (4 cr)
  • USP 385 History of American Cities (4 cr)
  • USP 424 Healthy Communities (4 cr)
  • USP 425 Community and the Built Environment (4 cr)
    • USP 445 Cities and Third World Development (3 cr))
  • USP 480 Political Economy of Nonprofit Organizations (3 cr)
  • ANTH 416 Urban Anthropology (4 cr)
  • BST 484 African-American Community Development (4 cr)
  • GEOG 462 Sense of Place (4 cr)
  • HST 434 U.S. Social and Intellectual History (4 cr)
  • PS 431 State and Local Government and Politics (4 cr)
  • SOC 320 Globalization (4 cr)
  • SOC 337 Minorities (4 cr)
  • SOC 376 Social Change (4 cr)
  • SOC 420 Urbanization and Community (4 cr)
  • SOC 423 Stratification (4 cr)
  • SOC 424 Groups, Interactions, and Identity (4 cr)
  • SOC 436 Social Movements (4 cr)
  • SOC 460 Youth Subcultures (4 cr)
  • SP 437 Urban Communication (3 cr)

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Housing and Economic Development

Required (22 credits):

  • USP 311 Introduction to Urban Planning (4 cr)
  • USP 312 Urban Housing and Development (4 cr)
  • USP 423 Development Process (3 cr)
  • USP 428 Concepts of Community Development (4 cr)
  • USP 430 Urban Studies Research Methods (4 cr)
  • USP 451 Community Economic Development (3 cr)

Choose 4 courses from among the following:

  • USP 313 Urban Planning: Environmental Issues (4 cr)
  • USP 385 History of American Cities (4 cr)
  • USP 419 Population and Society (4cr)
  • USP 424 Healthy Communities (4 cr)
  • USP 425 Community and the Built Environment (4 cr)
  • USP 426 Neighborhood Conservation and Change (4 cr)
  • USP 427 Downtown Revitalization (3 cr)
  • USP 429 Poverty in the Urban Community (3 cr)
  • USP 445 Cities and Third World Development (3 cr)
  • USP 455 Land Use: Legal Aspects (3 cr)
  • USP 456 Urban Transportation: Problems and Policies (3 cr)
  • USP 465 Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning (3rd)
  • USP 468 Oregon Land Use Law (3 cr)
  • USP 480 Political Economy of Nonprofit Organizations (3 cr)
  • USP 490 Green Economics and Sustainable Development (3 cr)
  • USP 498 Introduction to Finance and Real Estate (3 cr)
  • USP 453 Real Estate Finance and Investments (3 cr)
  • BST 484 African-American Community Development (4 cr)
  • ECON 465 Economics of Labor Markets (4 cr)
  • GEOG 332 Urban Geography (4 cr)
  • GEOG 345 Resource Management (4 cr)
  • GEOG 432 Urban Landscapes (4 cr)

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Communications and Community Development

Required (20 credits):

  • USP 311 Introduction to Urban Planning (4 cr)
  • USP 426 Neighborhood Conservation and Change (4 cr)
  • USP 428 Concepts of Community Development (4 cr)
  • USP 430 Urban Studies Research Methods (4 cr)
  • USP 450 Concepts of Citizen Participation (4 cr)

Choose 8 credits from among the following:

  • SP 215 Introduction to Intercultural Communication (4 cr)
  • SP 218 Interpersonal Communication (4 cr)
  • SP 337 Communication and Gender (4 cr)
  • SP 420 Political Communication (4 cr)
  • SP 437 Urban Communication (4 cr)

Choose 8 credits from the following:

  • USP 385 History of American Cities (4 cr)
  • USP 457 Information Cities (3 cr)
  • BST 484 African-American Community Development (4 cr)
  • SP 212 Mass Communication and Society (4 cr)
  • SP 220 Public Speaking (4 cr)
  • SP 313 Communication in Groups (4 cr)
  • SP 314 Persuasion (4 cr)
  • SP 320 Advanced Public Speaking (4 cr)
  • SP 324 Critical Thinking and Argumentation (4 cr)
  • SP 340 Interviewing (4 cr)
  • SP 415 Problems of Intercultural Communication (4 cr)
  • SP 417 Communication and Conflict (4 cr)
  • SP 418 Advanced Interpersonal Communication (4 cr)
  • SP 422 Critical Theories of Mass Communication (4 cr)
  • SP 423 Organizational Communication (4 cr)
  • SP 427 Issues in International Communication (4 cr)
  • WR 227 Introduction to Technical Writing (4 cr)
  • WR 228 News Writing (4 cr)

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