These include growth management and comprehensive planning, planning for developing areas, environmental planning and resource management, health and aging, housing and community development, and transportation planning. Students interested in the planning studies minor program are advised to see the departments Director of Undergraduate Programs for advice on the availability of courses. This undergraduate program is designed for students who anticipate continuing to graduate school to earn the professional masters degree in planning. Students in this program are given the opportunity to begin graduate-level course work in their senior year and thereby may satisfy some of the requirements of a graduate degree while still completing their undergraduate credit hour requirements. This program is closely coordinated with the departments graduate program, offering students the possibility of preferred admission with advanced standing at the graduate level.
Students make application for advanced standing after admission to the masters program.
The pregraduate program allows acceleration toward the master of science in planning degree upon satisfactory completion of two required undergraduate courses, a graduate level statistics requirement, and one to three of the eligible URP graduate courses listed below. A minor can be earned concurrent with work on the pregraduate program. Multicultural Studies A variety of Urban and Regional Planning undergraduate courses explore perspectives of different cultural groups on questions related to urban life and the development of human settlements. Courses Liberal Studies Area III URS 1000. Prospects for future growth and change are considered in light of demographic, cultural, economic and political trends.