Students entering the Planning Program are encouraged to declare their major as soon as possible in accordance with university requirements. Minimum degree requirement is 120 s.h. of credit as follows:

1. Foundations curriculum requirements - 42 s.h.

(For information about courses that carry foundations curriculum credit see Liberal Arts Foundations Curriculum .)

COMM 2410 - Public Speaking or
COMM 2420 - Business and Professional Communication

2. Core - 33 s.h.

GEOG 2400 - Spatial Data Analysis or
MATH 2228 - Elementary Statistical Methods I or
MATH 2283 - Statistics for Business
PLAN 2410 - Fundamentals of GIS
PLAN 3020 - Environmental Planning
PLAN 3021 - Introduction to Planning Techniques
PLAN 3022 - History and Theory of Planning
PLAN 3030 - Urban and Regional Planning
PLAN 3031 - Quantitative Analysis in Planning
PLAN 3032 - Planning Legislation and Administration
PLAN 4003 - Urban Form and Design
PLAN 4096 - Planning Studio
PLAN 4099 - Practicum in Planning

3. Area of emphasis - 9 s.h.

(In consultation with the planning advisor, choose one area from the following.)

Coastal Planning and Development

PLAN 4015 - Emergency Management Planning
PLAN 4045 - Environmental Resources Planning and Management or
PLAN 4065 - Land Use Planning
PLAN 4055 - Coastal Area Planning and Management

Community Planning and Development:

PLAN 4025 - Housing and Neighborhood Planning
PLAN 4040 - Community Facilities Planning or
PLAN 4065 - Land Use Planning
PLAN 4075 - Transportation Planning or
PLAN 5985 - Historic Preservation Planning

4. Electives

(Choose any additional 6 s.h. from the following)

PLAN 1900 - Planning for the Human Environment
PLAN 3018 - Planning Internship *
PLAN 3028 - Planning Internship *
PLAN 3038 - Planning Internship *
PLAN 3041 - Computer Applications in Planning
PLAN 3430 - Geographic Information Systems I
PLAN 4015 - Emergency Management Planning
PLAN 4025 - Housing and Neighborhood Planning
PLAN 4040 - Community Facilities Planning
PLAN 4045 - Environmental Resources Planning and Management
PLAN 4046 - Planning and Design Studio
PLAN 4050 - World Architecture and Urbanism
PLAN 4055 - Coastal Area Planning and Management
PLAN 4065 - Land Use Planning
PLAN 4075 - Transportation Planning
PLAN 4121 - Problems in Planning
PLAN 4131 - Problems in Planning
PLAN 4270 - Water Resources Management and Planning
PLAN 4305 - Ecological Landscape Planning
PLAN 4430 - Geographic Information Systems II
PLAN 5985 - Historic Preservation Planning

Note:

*May count a maximum of 3 s.h. from PLAN 3018 , PLAN 3028 , PLAN 3038 toward the degree.

5. Minor or concentration area - 24 s.h.

(In consultation with the planning advisor, choose a minor from another discipline or two concentration areas from below, with a minimum of 9 s.h. chosen from each of the two areas.)

Coastal Resources:

BIOL 3400 - Biological Field Studies of the Coastal Plain
BIOL 3401 - Biological Field Studies of the Coastal Plain Laboratory
COAS 2025 - Survey of Coastal and Marine Resources
COAS 4025 - Society and the Sea Seminar
GEOG 4220 - Coastal Geography
GEOG 4440 - Coastal Applications of GIS
GEOG 4540 - Coastal Storms
GEOL 1550 - Oceanography
GEOL 3700 - Advanced Oceanography
HIST 5520 - Maritime History of the Western World Since 1815
SOCI 3410 - Introduction to Maritime Sociology

Community Health:

ANTH 3027 - Human Health and Disease Ecology
EHST 2110 - Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences
EHST 3600 - Air Pollution
EHST 5800 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Management and Laboratory
EHST 5801 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Management and Laboratory
GEOG 4340 - Introduction to Medical Geography
HLTH 2000 - Principles of Public Health
HLTH 3050 - Public Health Systems and Policy
SOCI 3327 - Introductory Medical Sociology

Environmental Resources:

ANTH 2005 - Environmental Anthropology
ECON 3855 - Environmental Economics
GEOG 2350 - Climate Change: Science and Society
GEOG 3220 - Soil Properties, Surveys, and Applications
GEOG 3250 - Environmental Hazards
GEOG 3420 - Remote Sensing of the Environment I
GEOL 3500 - Hydrogeology and the Environment
POLS 3256 - Environmental Politics

Geographic Information Science:

GEOG 3420 - Remote Sensing of the Environment I
GEOG 3430 - Geographic Information Systems I
GEOG 3450 - Introduction to the Global Positioning System
GEOG 3460 - GIS Applications Programming
GEOG 4410 - Advanced Cartographic Design and Production
GEOG 4420 - Remote Sensing II
GEOG 4430 - Geographic Information Systems II
GEOG 4440 - Coastal Applications of GIS
GEOG 4450 - GIScience, Society and Technology
GEOG 4460 - Digital Terrain Analysis

International Development:

ECON 3353 - Development Economics
ECON 3750 - Economics of Poverty and Discrimination
GEOG 2003 - Geography in the Global Economy
GEOG 2110 - World Geography: Less Developed Regions
GEOG 4325 - Resources, Population, and Development
POLS 3140 - Politics of Globalization
POLS 3257 - International Environmental Policy
POLS 3297 - International Political Economy
POLS 4360 - Politics of Developing Areas

Recreation:

GEOG 2019 - Geography of Recreation
GEOG 4335 - Geography of Tourism
RCLS 2000 - Foundations of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Studies
RCLS 2601 - Leisure in Society
RCLS 3104 - Public and Non-Profit Recreation
RCLS 3120 - Commercial Recreation and Tourism
RCLS 3300 - Outdoor Recreation Programming
RCLS 4111 - Recreation and Park Planning

Rural Development:

ANTH 4260 - Cultural Ecology
ECON 3750 - Economics of Poverty and Discrimination
GEOG 3055 - North Carolina
GEOG 4325 - Resources, Population, and Development
GEOG 4335 - Geography of Tourism
HIST 3100 - North Carolina History
HIST 3300 - History of American Rural Life
SOCI 3222 - Rural Sociology

Public Administration:

ECON 4214 - Public Finance
MGMT 3202 - Fundamentals of Management
POLS 3240 - State and Local Government
POLS 3241 - Urban Political Systems
POLS 3242 - Municipal Policy and Administration
POLS 3252 - Public Administration
POLS 3253 - Government Fiscal Administration

Urban Studies:

EHST 3600 - Air Pollution
GEOG 3004 - Urban Geography
GEOG 4560 - Urban Climatology
HIST 3205 - History of American Urban Life
POLS 3241 - Urban Political Systems
POLS 3242 - Municipal Policy and Administration
SOCI 3225 - Urban Sociology
SOCI 3289 - Community Organization

6. Electives to complete degree requirements for graduation.

Note:

Excluding foundations curriculum requirements, no one course may be used to fulfill two or more degree requirements.

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