Minor: Environmental Planning

Consider complementing your major with knowledge and skills in sustainability, urban planning and landscape design.Ìý

Learn what it takes to facilitate the decision-making to carry out urban planning, urban design, land development and natural resource conservation with consideration of environmental, social, political and economic factors.

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Interested in this minor?

The minor requires a minimum of 18 credits in environmental planning-related courses. Ìý

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If you are not a CMDI major and wish to declare a CMDI minor, please fill out the form.

If you are a CMDI major, you may discuss and declare the minor with your CMDI advisor. You can also declare by filling out theÌýÌýform.

Audience

The audience for the planning minor is very broad and, overall, tends to grab the interests of students in the following majors:

  • Environmental Studies: Students interested in environmental planning
  • Political Science/Pre-Law: Students interested in working within governing institutions who make decisions
  • Business/Economics: Students interested in planning and the private sector
  • Sociology/Anthropology: Students interested in the use of property and space and impact on communities that inhabit them
  • Geography: Students interested in a professionally-driven implementation of urban geography
Minor Requirements

Complete a minimum of 18 credits in environmental planning-related courses.

Minor Curriculum

Theory and history (3 credits)

PLAN 2004 - History and Theory of Sustainable Planning and Design (3)
LAND 2004 - History of Landscape Architecture (3)
ARCH 3114 - History and Theory of Architecture (3)
LAND 4114 - Landscape Architecture Theory (3)

Technology requirement (3 or 4 credits)

ENVD 3052 - Digital Tools for LAND/PLAN
ENVD 3152 - ArcGIS: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
GEOG 4603 - GIS in the Social and Natural Sciences (maymester only)
GEOG 3053 - Graphic Information Science: MappingÌý(4)

Environmental planning electives (6 credits)

Pick two ENVD electives. Below is a list of suggested courses. You may also consult with your Environmental Planning Minor advisor to identify other options.Ìý

ENVD 1004 - Introduction to Environmental Design
ENVD 2001 - Human Behavior and Design
ENVD 2003 - Ecology & Design
LAND 3103Ìý- Planting Design and Ecology (Students should have experience in drawing to scale, with proficiency in AutoCAD (or strong hand-drawing skills), and basic graphic design for poster creation and rendering drawings for clarity.)
PLAN 4101Ìý- Sustainable Futures Planning
ENVD 4043Ìý- Urban TransportationÌýPlanning
ENVD 4311Ìý- Housing Policies and Practices
ENVD 4361 - Urban Design
ENVD 4363Ìý- Designing & Planning for Natural Areas
ENVD 4363 - Urban ConflictÌý

Environmental planning capstone (6 credits)

PLAN 4100 - Capstone in Planning and Urban Design (6)Ìý

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