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25 courses with the subject UPCD, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

UPCD 120LBoston: Social Justice and the City3

Statistics/Quantitative Reasoning

Subject: UPCD
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 130LSustainable Urban Development in Local Contexts Globally

Formerly: CDVCTR 130L Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This survey course explores multiple dimensions of global sustainable urban development and provides strategies for planning, building, managing, and living in cities while protecting the environment. This survey of the contested nature of sustainable urbanization is accomplished through diverse topics which include but not limited to: the city and vulnerable populations; gender equal cities; strengthening resilience in cities to reduce the risk and the impact of disasters; the inter-connected crisis in infrastructure, urbanization, poverty, social injustice, and sustainable growth of smart cities. sustainable Urban Development in Local Contexts Globally will specifically and directly address race, gender, socio-economic class, and cultural (ethnicity and national origin) diversity as a central theme through a category of difference, as a system of relationality or intersectionality, and as a global/transnational system. Course Note: ENVSTY 130L and UPCD 130L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ENVSTY 130L Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 041381 Course Offer Number: 2 1431

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 201History and Theory of Community Development

Formerly: CDVCTR 201 Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) 1432

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 210Community Health and Environment6

ENVSCI 281 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems Methods

Subject: UPCD
Credits (min): 6
Credits (max): 6
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 280Lower Level Special Topics in Community Development

Formerly: CDVCTR 280 Credit(s): 1-6 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 9 / total completions: 3 Description: This course covers a variety of areas in community development at the 100 or 200 level. The topic is announced during preregistration period. Course Catalog ID: 040538 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 301Introduction to Research Methods and Community Analysis

Formerly: CDVCTR 301 Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course provides an introduction to social research as a tool to understand and 1434

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 303Quantitative Methods for Community Development12

300/400-Level Electives

Subject: UPCD
Credits (min): 12
Credits (max): 12
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 310Social Determinants of Health

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 315LIntroduction to Environmental Health

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (included P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Course introduces students to physical, chemical, and biological hazards found in the environmental and health risks associated with workplace and community exposure to them. Risks to special populations and mechanisms of reducing or controlling these risks are discussed. Course Note: ENVSCI 315L and UPCD 315L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ENVSCI 315L Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: Completion of a minimum of 48 credits Course Catalog ID: 041370 Course Offer Number: 2

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 321Fundamentals of Housing

Formerly: CDVCTR 321 Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course focuses on the relationship between housing and social structure in the United States using historical, sociological, and political-economic perspectives. Students will examine the actors and institutions involved in housing development and provision (builders, real estate and mortgage brokers, the federal government, welfare capitalists, architects, urban planners, politicians, etc.) and the ideas, events, policies, and programs that have resulted in contemporary housing and land use patterns. Students also will focus on the history of federal housing policy and explore the meaning and implication of the "American Dream". Finally, 1436

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 340LPlanning and Land Use Law

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (included P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A study of the law as it has developed and applies to the planning process and the regulation of land use in the United States, with emphasis on Massachusetts. Course Note: ENVSCI 340L and UPCD 340L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ENVSCI 340L Course Catalog ID: 000868 Course Offer Number: 2

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 351LArchitecture and Human Built Environment Interactions

Formerly: CDVCTR 351L Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course introduces students to the connections between architecture and human-made places and spaces and emphasizes student engagement and creative problem- 1437

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 353LCommunity Economic Development in the U.S.: Class, Race, Ethnicity

137

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 355Global Community Economic Development

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 356LEconomic Development and Environmental Justice

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Seminar and Discussion Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course looks at the interaction between human and ecological systems and economic development. We begin with an historical overview of the effect of human communities on the environment. We will also try to understand all of this in the context of onademics and racism, particularly anti-Black racism. We will examine the environmental impacts of European expansion from the 1600s to the present, as well as native communities land management systems and relationship to the environment. By analyzing the discourse of sustainable development, we will be able to understand how emerging international political agendas are linked or not to reconciling the goals of economic development, environmental quality and social/racial justice. We will also review case studies that highlight the theories and practices of economic development and environmental justice. The cases include settlement systems/settler colonialism, environmental factors and conflict, sustainable systems, vulnerability, and water and food issues. Through this process we hope to draw lessons and create new knowledge relevant to the different experiences of women and people of color in the global environment and economy. Course Note: UPCD 356L and ENVSTY 356L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ENVSTY 356L Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: Completion of 60 credits Course Catalog ID: 041901 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 364LEnvironmental Justice

Credit(s): 3 1439

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 371Organizational Behavior for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

ENVSCI 340L - Planning and Land Use Law

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 375LUrban Planning

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (included P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A case method approach to urban planning. Students are supplied with a standard "request for a proposal" for a master plan. As an end product, they must present and submit a proposal for review. Class work focuses on how to use the planning process to design a master plan and on various approaches to designing zoning ordinances and land-use controls. This course is cross-listed as: ENVSCI 375L Course Catalog ID: 013456 Course Offer Number: 2

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 380Upper Level Special Topics in Community Development

Formerly: CDVCTR 380 Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 9 / total completions: 31 Description: The course covers a variety of upper level areas in community development. The topic is announced during preregistration period. Course Catalog ID: 040539 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 410Socioleconomic Inequalities in Health

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 419Community Health Practicum

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 457Internship in Community Development

Formerly: CDVCTR 457 1441

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 459Capstone in Community Development

191

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 478Independent Study in Community Development

Formerly: CDVCTR 478 Credit(s): 1-6 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 6 Description: Research or reading in a selected area of community development, guided by a faculty member. Enrollment Requirements: Instructor consent consent required for enrollment: Instructor Course Catalog ID: 040540 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

UPCD 498Honors in Community Development

ENVSCI 476 - Environmental Science Capstone Seminar (2 Credits) ENVSTY 210 - Second-Year Seminar: Conflict and Resolution ENVSTY 310 - Third-Year Seminar: Professional Development

Subject: UPCD
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.umb.edu

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