MINOR IN SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CURRICULUM

Pre-requisite: (can be substituted for a acceptable alternative)

UNST 224: Environmental Sustainability (4)

Required: 15 Credits:

USP 313: Urban Planning: Environmental Issues (4)
USP 424: Healthy Communities (4)
USP 425: Community and the Built Environment (4)
USP 490: Green Economics and Sustainable Development (3)

Electives: 12 Credits: (Cannot be combined with any other minor)

Arch 431: Studies in Contemporary Architecture (4)
Arch 442: Building Economics (4)
CE 351: Transportation Systems: Planning and Design (4)
CE 371: Environmental Engineering (4)
Ec 332: Economics of Environmental Issues (4)
Ec 433: Natural Resource Economics (4)
Ec 444: Economics of Green Power (4)
ESR 356: Understanding Environmental Sustainability II (4)
ESR 428: Urban Ecology (4)
GEOG 347: Environmental Issues and Action (4)
GEOG 442: Sustainable Cities (4)
GEOG 447: Urban Streams (4)
GEOG 448: The Urban Forest (4)
GEOG 462: Sense of Place (4)
PS 319: Politics of the Environment (4)
SOC 420: Urbanization and Community (4)
SOC 465: Environmental Sociology (4)
USP 419: Population and Society (4)
USP 423: Real Estate Development (3)
USP 427: Downtown Revitalization (3)
USP 429: Poverty in the Urban Community (3)
USP 445: Cities and Third World Development (3)
USP 451: Community Economic Development (3)
USP 456: Urban Transportation: Problems and Policies (3)

Several of the courses offered in the core and elective offerings provide community based learning opportunities with community partners within the region. In addition, courses will provide an introduction to emerging technologies in “green” building innovations and economic development.