Topics in Community Planning

Catalog description

This capstone course focuses on advanced treatment of the concepts and tools required for effective local and regional planning and community development. Students select a community and environmental planning or development topic of their choice to focus on throughout the semester. The student gathers, evaluates and writes about information related to their chosen topic and assesses and makes recommendations for effective planning and policy approaches. At the conclusion of this course, the student has built substantive expertise in their chosen topic area, as well as local information collection, planning and community policy implementation processes.