28 courses with the subject PLAN, 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.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Analyzes community and environmental planning in the United States; the planning process; and sustainable communities.
Effective Date 08/01/2018 Studies the principles of design; the architecture of cities and urban design; perception of space and visual analysis; graphic presentation, including mapping techniques; and inventories, information storage, retrieval and use. Prerequisite PLAN 2110
Effective Date 01/01/2022 Explores theories and concepts of economic, social, and cultural forces that influence urban and regional spatial structure.
Effective Date 06/01/2013 Digital technology for representing and analyzing planning data will include photo-editing, web page design, geographic information system mapping, spreadsheet modeling, and document layout and production. The major emphasis will be on two- and three- dimensional representation of spaces common to planning: streetscape, neighborhoods, communities and regions. Representation of the past, the present and prospective futures to both professional and citizen audiences will receive critical attention.
Effective Date 07/24/2019 This course will provide an introduction to geographic information systems (GIS) concepts and software. It is intended for undergraduate planning students but open to other undergraduates. The course introduces the concepts of GIS as well as practical training on ESRI’s ArcGIS suite. Students successfully completing the course will have general familiarity with the major functionality of ArcGIS
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Topical offerings in planning.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 A seminar exploring how racialized inequalities have shaped American cities North & South, past & present, and the influence of racialized urban structures on the idea & experience of race in America. Topics include the effects of segregation, redlining, urban planning, redevelopment, white flight, ghettoization, & neoliberal development on the form & culture of American cities & structures of inequality in the US.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 Examines the role of planning in government decision-making. Focuses on local government, but intergovernmental aspects of planning that influence local decisions are also stressed. Studies planning processes, such as transportation, community development, and social planning.
Effective Date 08/01/2024 Explores theories and concepts of economic, social, and cultural forces that influence urban and regional spatial structure.
Effective Date 09/20/2016 This lecture course focuses on cities as centers of cultural, social, and artistic activity. It considers how we define cities, the forces that create and sustain them, and what makes them culturally distinctive. It looks at several cities at their moments of cultural, political, and architectural glory: Istanbul in the 16thcentury, London in the late 17th and 18th centuries, Paris in the 19th century, New York in the 20th century, and Shanghai in the 21st century.
Effective Date 01/01/2020 Analyzes methods used in quantitative and qualitative investigations of urban and regional settings for planning purposes.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 This course is an introduction to the basic legal frameworks for regulating land use in the United States. Topics to be covered include zoning & comprehensive planning; the constitutional & statutory rights of landowners & developers to challenge government action; the rights of neighbors; legal constraints on zoning changes by local governments; public financing of local land use development; discriminatory land use controls; eminent domain; and state & federal housing & homebuilding programs.
Effective Date 02/17/2023 Critical perspectives to reveal how global systems of power shape society, environment, and economy. Comprehensive understanding of how political economy historically and culturally mediates contemporary issues such as: socio-economic inequality and persistent poverty; public and ecological health crises; disinformation, agency, and public right-to-know; environmental degradation and disasters; demands for rights, justice, and accountability.
Effective Date 03/04/2024 Urban analytics draws upon statistics, visualization, and computation to better understand and ultimately to shape cities. This course emphasizes geospatial data, familiarizes students with statistical computing using R, and introduces principles and techniques of machine learning. Students will also learn to explain and to critique the results of visualization, analysis, and predictive modeling.
Effective Date 02/07/2024 This course will provide students with an interdisciplinary learning process related to real estate development including finance, branding, design, planning, land use, site planning permitting, adaptive reuse among others. Situated in an actual case, students will have the opportunity to work with a multi-disciplinary team on a real-world development project. Graduate course will have additional course requirement
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Topical offerings in planning.
Effective Date 01/01/2021 This course introduces design & systems thinking techniques to address the interrelated crises of climate change & social inequity in U.S. cities. It asks how such transformational change might work - examining the socio-technical context,challenges, & opportunities that animate systems change in the built world. Students will learn through readings,discussions,lectures, & workshops to develop interdisciplinary creative problem-solving skills
Effective Date 03/07/2016 This class explores the wide range of approaches that have been taken to the complex relationships between body, sex, gender, and the built environment. Some see buildings as a direct expression of sexed bodies (phallic towers and breast-like domes), while others see buildings and settlements as expressions and reiterations of the gender structures of a culture.
Effective Date 02/17/2021 This class explores methods of inquiry that share power in the production of knowledge, & that honor both technical & lived expertise. We will discuss theoretical & ethical frames for the co-production of scholarship, what it means to be an action-oriented scholar & workshop participatory action research techniques including photovoice, appreciative inquiry,counter-mapping.
Effective Date 02/26/2025 Global Environmental Issues contextualizes environmental pressures through case studies on topics such as land use practices and soil health, overconsumption and labor conditions, deforestation and disease emergence, as well as resource extraction and disaster resilience. This course addresses the roots of global environmental issues while cultivating critical thinking about what is required for more just and sustainable futures.
Effective Date 07/07/2020 Detailed exploration of the normative debate surrounding environmental issues. Focus on the foundations of environmental economics, questions about the value of endangered species, concerns of future generations, appropriateness of a sustainable society, notions of stewardship, and obligations toward equity. Graduate course will have additional course requirements
Effective Date 09/13/2013 This class begins with the premise that contact with nature is essential to modern life.The class will examine the evidence for why nature in important,and the many creative ways in which cities can plan for,and design-in nature, and foster meaningful and everyday connections with the natural world.
Effective Date 06/01/2013 Elective courses offered at the request of faculty or students to provide an opportunity for internships, fieldwork, and independent study.
Effective Date 11/21/2017 January Term courses provide students with unique opportunities: new courses that address topics of current interest, study abroad programs, undergraduate research seminars, and interdisciplinary courses. The intensive format of “J-term” classes encourages extensive student-faculty contact and allows students and faculty to immerse he topics of “J-term” courses change each semester and offer focused study, often related travel or current events.
Effective Date 01/01/2011 Structured internship experience and reporting as a reflective practitioner for ten weeks or 200 hours of experience.
Effective Date 04/13/2022 This course provides a framework for the completion of a Distinguished Major Thesis, a treatise containing an exposition of a chosen urban and environmental planning topic. A faculty advisor guides a student through the beginning phases of the process of research and writing.
Effective Date 04/13/2022 This is the second semester of a two semester sequence for the purpose of the completion of a Distinguished Major Thesis. A faculty member guides the student through all phases of the process which culminates in an open presentation of the thesis to an audience including a faculty evaluation committee.
Effective Date 01/01/2011 Elective courses offered at the request of faculty or students to provide an opportunity for internships, fieldwork, and independent study.
Source: University of Virginia-Main Campus's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
