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Scott A. Bollens, Department Chair
Established in 1992, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to urban community problem solving. The Department faculty devote their scholarly and teaching efforts to theory-driven and empirically oriented urban research and their interests include urban development, environmental policy, health policy and planning, and environmental design. Collaborative academic and research ties are maintained with other units on campus including the School of Social Sciences, the Graduate School of Management, and the Institute of Transportation Studies. The Department's teaching, research, and graduate training utilize UCI's proximity to both urban centers and planned suburban communities, as well as the University's location within the dynamic Southern California and Pacific Rim regions.
Currently, the Department offers a program of study leading to the Ph.D. degree in Urban and Regional Planning; the Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree (M.U.R.P), which is fully accredited by the National Planning Accreditation Board; and an undergraduate minor in Urban and Regional Planning. Departmental faculty also teach courses within the School's undergraduate programs in Social Ecology; Criminology, Law and Society; Environmental Analysis and Design; and Psychology and Social Behavior.
The common mission linking the Department's undergraduate, master's, and doctorate-level instruction and faculty research efforts is to bring applied research to the cause of bettering neighborhoods, communities, and regions. Southern California has grown dramatically over the past three decades and will soon become the nation's largest urban corridor. The challenges to maintain the quality of life, provide employment opportunities, and reduce the deep socioeconomic disparities of this binational, metropolitan, and multiethnic region are enormous. No other region in the United States has been faced with the kinds of problems and future possibilities that now confront Southern California and its increasingly diverse communities.
If the challenges presented by contemporary urbanization are enormous, its promise is equally vast. Extremely diverse, multiethnic communities face the necessity of solving their problems in ways that are acceptable to their populations. Older central city areas that are vital to the region face issues of social and economic sustainability. The need to create employment opportunities, through the application of new technologies in industries and services, will be one of the most challenging policy questions facing urban regions. At the same time, urban growth and transportation will have to meet the increasingly stringent environmental regulation that can safeguard the population's health and the quality of the natural environment. The urban design and landscape of most communities stand to be reshaped as never before, as the building stock ages and the need to redevelop increases.
Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning: Click on the "Next" button at the bottom of this page.
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Urban and Regional Planning Minor Requirements
Nine courses (36 units): Environmental Analysis and Design E8, E107U, and seven additional upper-division Environmental Analysis and Design courses selected from E102U, E104U, E105U, E108U, E109U, E123U, E124U, E128U, E129U, E131U, E135U, E136U, E137U, E138U, E140U, E141U, E143U, E144U, E145U, E147U, E148U, E149U, E150U, E151U, E152U, E154U, E155U, E156U, E157U, E158U, E159U, E179U.
Course descriptions are available in the Department of Environmental Analysis and Design section.
NOTE: A maximum of three courses may be counted toward both the minor in Urban and Regional Planning and the majors in Environmental Analysis and Design or Social Ecology. (Environmental Analysis and Design E8 is by necessity one of the three.)
