Junior Year

AUTUMN 2016

WINTER 2017

SPRING 2017

JUNIOR YEAR

2016 - 2017

AUTUMN 2016

CEP 301: The Idea of Community (I&S)(Core)

Course Description: Theories of community and communal rights and responsibilities. Experience building a learning community within major. Explores struggles for community in every sector of life.

URBDP 405: The Urban Form (VLPA) (Minor)

Course Description: Elements, patterns, and evolution of urban form. The forces that shaped cities in history. Contemporary trends. Methods of urban morphological analysis as related to urban design and planning practices

URBDP 480: Planning as a Profession (Methods/Minor)

Course Description: Provides students interested in the planning profession an opportunity to understand the different pathways and career choices within the profession. Introduces students to guest professionals in various planning careers and highlight key issues, skills used, and tips to entering the field. Focuses on professional practice rather than analytical methods or theory.

WINTER 2017

CEP 302 Environmental Response (I&S/NW)(Core)

Course Description: Explores issues of environmental crisis and societal responses. Readings and reflective analysis from broad selection of authoritative sources to develop grounded perspective in ecological literacy and consciousness. Concurrently, experiential education in challenges and practical responses to building sustainable society through participation in community-based environmental effort.

R E 350: Introduction to Real Estate (Methods)

Course Description: Introduction to the real estate profession focusing on the participants and processes as well as real estate decision making by buyers and sellers.

MUSIC 366: Cylinders to Platters: 100 Years of Significant Recorded Music (VLPA)(Methods)

Course Description: Music as reflected through the influences of the recording industry and the development of related technologies. Examines social and artistic impacts that the recording age has brought to American and European musical cultures.

SPRING 2017

CEP 303: Social Structures and Processes (I&S)(Core)

Course Description: Investigates use of formal and informal social structures and processes within context of community and environment. Looks at patterns and institutions of social organization and relationships among different sectors. Issues of interelatedness, citizenship, knowledge, and communication.

URBDP 300: Introduction to Urban Planning (I&S)(Minor)

Course Description: Principles and theories of urban structure and institutions. Concepts and logic of planning uses digital technologies for mapping, drafting, modeling, and communication. Includes real-world case study projects that focus on urban design and planning issues as a community process and a professional activity. Evolution of planning ideas in response to changing social, economic, and environmental conditions within the American political framework. Complementary nature of public and private responsibilities. Major procedures used by planners.

CEP 473: Digital Design (VLPA)(Methods/Minor)

Course Description: Uses digital technologies for mapping, drafting, modeling, and communication. Includes real-world case study projects that focus on urban design and planning issues.