Graduate Course Requirements

Core Courses

Download the Academic Program Completion Plan for the MCMP

a. The following courses are required:

• URBPL 6010 Urban Research (3)†
• URBPL 6040 Physical Plan Analysis (3)†
• URBPL 6100 City and Profession (3)
• URBPL 6200 Urbanization (3)
• URBPL 6240 Planning Theory and Ethics (3)†
• URBPL 6260 Planning Law and Administration (3)†
• URBPL 6280 Graduate Workshop (4)

† Experience suggests that up to 3 of these courses may well be waived for undergraduate urban planning majors.

• URBPL 6020 Urban and Regional Analysis (3)
• URBPL 6030 Public Participation and Consensus Building (3)

c. One of the following capstone experiences is required:

• URBPL 6954 Professional Internship (4)
• URBPL 6970 Master’s Thesis Research (6)
• URBPL 6971 Professional Project (4)

Focused Electives (12 cr. hrs.)

Four courses are required and should be associated with a declared area of specialization. Your area of specialization is declared on your Program Plan developed in consultation with an advisor. The following is a list of suggested courses:

• URBPL 6020 Urban and Regional Analysis
• URBPL 6030 Public Participation and Consensus Building
• URBPL 6220 Land Use Planning
• URBPL 6270 Metropolitan Regional Planning
• URBPL 6300 Housing and Community Development
• URBPL 6320 City Dollars
• URBPL 6330 Urban Growth Management
• URBPL 6350 Public Lands and Environmental Policy
• URBPL 6360 Environmental Planning Law and Policy
• URBPL 6370 System Dynamics and Environmental Policy
• URBPL 6371 Complexity and Systems Thinking
• URBPL 6390 Sustainable Communities
• URBPL 6400 Urban Design Visualization
• URBPL 6410 Site Planning
• URBPL 6420 Open Space Design
• URBPL 6600 Politics of Planning
• URBPL 6710 Transportation Planning
• URBPL 6720 Community Transport
• ARCH 6230 Utah Architecture and Cities
• ARCH 6235 American Suburban Development
• ARCH 6262 Urban Design Theory
• ARCH 6500 Preservation Theory and Practice
• ARCH 6581 “Main Street” Revitalization
• ARCH 6851 Societal Change, Architecture and Planning
• ARCH 6720 Project Finance and Economics
• ECON 6250 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• FCS 6730 Community Development and Environmental Change
• FCS 6120 Demographic Method
• GEOGR 6140 Methods in G.I.S.
• GEOGR 6160 Spatial Modeling with G.I.S.
• LAW 7010 Mediation/Advanced Negotiation
• LAW 7011 Mediation Clinic
• POL S 6240 Local Government Law
• POL S 6380 Public Budgeting and Finance