Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation

Urban Planning and Design, Minor


Academic Information

Urban areas and communities have evolved in adaptation to environments, geography, political pressures, food production, and population sprawl. This minor provides a useful foundation for those interested in land-use planning, historic preservation, as well as the legal and ethical components of contemporary community design.

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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation

Urban Planning and Design, Minor


Careers

What Can I Do with a Minor in Urban Planning and Design?

The field of community and urban design gives you the skills to help redesign poorly functioning places or to create fresh designs for more livable and sustainable neighborhoods and cities. With this minor you learn about the environmental, political, and social aspects of places and how to improve community designs through 2-D and 3-D modeling tools. Classes include a mixture of academic and theoretical perspectives, coupled with applied, real-world projects that challenge you to design better places in Flagstaff and beyond.

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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation

Urban Planning and Design, Minor


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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation

Urban Planning and Design, Minor


Overview

In addition to University Requirements:

Students may be able to use some courses to meet more than one requirement. Contact your advisor for details.

No more than fifty percent of the units used to satisfy minor requirements may be used to satisfy major requirements.

Minimum Units for Completion 18
Major GPA C

Purpose Statement

This minor provides an urban planning and design background for those in the fields of civil engineering, historic preservation, community advocacy and sustainability, and public administration. The minor in urban planning and design prepares students to plan and design poorly functioning places and spaces for more livable and sustainable neighborhoods and cities and to communicate with the public. With this minor you learn about the environmental, political, and social aspects of places and how to improve community design. You will understand legal, ethical and process aspects to community and urban design projects, work on solving problems related to the built environment, create community designs and gain skills in public participation and facilitation.

Student Learning Outcomes

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College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation

Urban Planning and Design, Minor


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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation

Urban Planning and Design, Minor


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