Mark Baldassare, Department Chair
Faculty research interests in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning include community attitudes and social policy, economics and public policy, land-use and growth management, transportation policy, community health planning and policy, and urban design and well-being.
The Department has collaborative academic and research ties with other units on campus including the School of Social Sciences, the Graduate School of Management, and the Institute of Transportation Studies.
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), 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.
Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning: See page 312.
Master of Urban and Regional Planning: See page 309.
Urban and Regional Planning Minor Requirements
Nine courses (36 units): Environmental Analysis and Design E8, E104U, E107U, and six additional upper-division Environmental Analysis and Design courses selected from E105U, E108U, E109U, E115U, E140U, E141U, E143U, E144U, E147U, E148U, E149U, E150U, E151U, E152U, E155U.
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.)
Click here for graduate courses offered in the School of Social Ecology.
