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Undergraduate Minor
The program offers an undergraduate minor in Community & Regional Planning. The interdisciplinary nature of CRP lends itself to supplementing the learning experience of undergraduate students in several units on campus, including Applied Anthropology, Sociology, Conservation Biology, Political Science, Latin American Studies, Environmental History, American Studies, Water Resources, Economics, etc. The CRP undergraduate minor is also a useful option for students in credit-intensive programs, but wish to gain substantive exposure to the field of planning. The CRP undergraduate minor is designed to be compatible with the program's mission, goals, values, and pedagogy. The CRP program is committed to applied, interdisciplinary study. The program's purpose is to provide future planners and professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to support planning that is responsive to people and place. Students in the CRP program work with communities, including their own, to create community based plans, programs and policies that sustain and enhance their culture, resource base, built environment and economic activity. Students in the CRP minor will enhance their ability to engage with planning issues from a community based perspective. The following is a list of courses required to complete the Community & Regional Planning undergraduate minor.
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Course # |
Title |
Credit |
Course Description |
| 1 |
CRP 165 |
Community & Regional Planning: Introduction |
3 |
Introduction to
the social, economic, political, and physical factors involved
in the
development of
cities and towns. Emphasis is on the nature of urban form as a
reflection of the prevailing past and present political economy
of society. |
| 2 |
CRP 265 |
Community Planning:
Concepts and Methods |
3 |
This course teaches
the basic concepts, processes and techniques of planning. Students
learn to identify planning issues, problems, and research questions;
collect information to answer these questions; organize and analyze
information; and develop policy recommendations. |
| 3 |
CRP 181 |
Environmental Planning |
3 |
Development of the
major issues, concepts and methods emerging from the relationship
of social systems and the natural environment. |
| 4 |
CRP 473 |
Planning Process
& Issues of Native American Reservations |
3
|
This course examines
tribal identity issues central to Native American community development
in the United States, |
| CRP 486 |
Planning Issues
in Chicano Communities |
3 |
This course applies
planning concepts and techniques to development issues facing Chicanos
in New Mexico generally and Albuquerque specifically. We study other
Chicano communities for the insights gained from a comparative approach. |
| 5 |
CRP 376 |
Human Settlements |
3 |
This course addresses
the social and built forms of the human settlements in a historical
context. It will explore the cultural assumptions, embedded in a
selected survey of historical developments, designs, and cities,
to understand how these were made manifest in regional and urban
form. The course objective is to provide an understanding of how
human societies pattern their settlements to reflect their philosophies,
cultural values, specific natural and social systems and individual/collective
actions. |
CRP 480 |
Community Growth
and Land Use |
3 |
The purpose of this
course is to study land use planning in its physical, legal, administrative,
and economic contexts. |
| 6 |
CRP 481 |
Computer Applications
for Planners
|
3 |
Assembly, analysis
and use of data related to: demographics, public expenditures, socio-economic
variables, physical growth, infrastructure requirements, and mapping
of geographic information. Problems based on urban planning and
public administration cases. |
| CRP 482 |
Introduction to
Graphics |
3 |
This course builds
the capacity of planners with little graphic experience to produce
and interpret graphically presented visual analysis and physical
plans. It teaches observation, capacity to draw, and graphic materials,
techniques, and styles. |
CRP 483 |
Introduction to
Geographic Information Systems |
3
|
Overview of GIS
capabilities in the context of municipal government and other planning
applications. Includes lectures, demonstrations, and discussion
of urban GIS applications. |
| 7 |
|
A 300- or 400 level
course |
3 |
Selection to be made
in consultation with a CRP faculty member. |
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