2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Sep 30, 2024

2024-2025 Academic Catalog

SSJ 334 - Planning and Zoning for Community Developers

This master’s-level course introduces students to the field of planning and zoning for community development. The student will be exposed to a wide range of methods used in planning, while also taking into account some of the challenges inherent in their use. The course work helps students understand the city, imagine the future, and move to action, while building skills in writing, oral, and graphic communication, research and analysis, and team work. This course helps prepare students to join the planning profession or learn how to navigate it in other roles. Students are introduced to the broad scope of the professional field, which involves different functional topics, scales, and sectors. The course work focuses on the practical application of planning theory, with case studies and hands on experience to understand the implications of analysis, the different types of plan-making, and the role of implementation.

Formerly IDCE 334. Students who have already passed IDCE 334 cannot receive credit for SSJ 334 and should not take this course.

Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall