All undergraduate courses offered by the planning faculty are open to any interested undergraduate student, with the exception of PD 450 Senior Workshop, and PD 460 Senior Colloquium in Environmental Design. Taught from an interdisciplinary point of view, this course can be a valuable educational supplement for students majoring in any discipline. The aim of the course is to illustrate that the urban phenomenon cannot be understood from the viewpoint of a single academic tradition. The emphasis of the course is on how each of the diverse academic traditions attempts to understand and elucidate urban problems and prospects. This course is structured to familiarize students with the historic social, cultural, economic, and political forces that shaped the contemporary city in the Western tradition, and with the factors that influenced the development of the professional practice of city planning.
Special emphasis is placed on the design dimensions of the built environment.
Studies the city as a center of economic and political relations with those of the city as the representation of social change. This course is offered in the spring semester for final-year students. This large group seminar course covers issues and topics central to the field of environmental design. Students will generally apply to the program in the second semester of the sophomore year. Transfer students from other colleges should complete the required introductory courses after being admitted to the major or may apply to waive these introductory courses if they have completed an equivalent course.