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UNHL 3250 - Leadership and Sustainability
This course examines issues of sustainability and the leadership challenges associated with the creation of sustainable social structures. Topics covered include a wide range of sustainability concerns such as: global population and food scarcity, alternative fuels and energy systems, biological and human health, leadership and sustainability program development, and symbolic and media representations of sustainability. Prereq: UNHL 1100 and second- or third-year status in the UNHL program. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3310 - Innovation, Cutting-Edge Knowledge, and Self-Guided Learning
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with cutting-edge knowledge in major scientific and technological fields, against the background of cultural and artistic creativity, and to establish habits of lifelong, self-guided learning. To enhance this process, relevant faculty will be invited to speak about innovation in their field, both in class and during the planned panel discussion. Prereq: UNHL 1100 and second- or third-year status in the UNHL program. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3501 - Love and Death in the Greek Classics
This course introduces students to classical Greek literature, focusing on love and death in Homeric epic, lyric poetry, tragic drama, the history and social science of Thucydides, the comedies of Aristophanes, and Plato’s philosophical dialogues. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3502 - The History and Literature of Science in the 19th Century
This course will examine the literature of the 19th Century, the history of science in that period, and how those works and that history impact how we think about science today. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3503 - Ethics, Academic Integrity, and Social Responsibility
This course combines research and class discussions in such a way that theories, viewpoints, and practical proposals regarding ethics and its application to intellectual responsibility are understood in their own right as well as in relation to other human activities. One daunting task will be facing up to the challenge of how to use the increasingly powerful information tools provided by universities. In the last third of the semester, students will be asked to work in teams on projects dealing with current ethics controversies. Prereq: UNHL 1100; not open to students who have taken UNHL 3100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3520 - Ancient Human Environmental Impacts
This course is an exploration of the history of human engagement with their environment, focusing specifically on what ecological and archaeological data can tell us and how to best collect and conceptualize them. It will introduce students to key concepts in past human ecology to establish humanity’s place in nature as well as examine a series of targeted case studies in order to trace how these relationships between humans and their ecosystems may have changed in scale and nature over time and in different contexts. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3610 - Neuroscience and Society
Science has provided tantalizing glimpses into the nature of humans and the groups in which they live. This course will explore these matters in a way that encourages critical analysis of the relationship between our brains and the world. In the process, we will focus on the scientific method itself and its standing in relation to faith, ideology, and sociopolitical attitudes. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3620 - Migration, Modernity, and Literacy
An examination of the causes, consequences, difficulties, and enduring problems of migration in contemporary global society. Political, legal, and educational problems of modernity and mass migration are analyzed. Course work includes social scientific research into historical and contemporary migration flows. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3625 - Food Justice: Urban Agriculture, Place, and Culture
Addresses systemic inequities in access to fresh and healthy food as illustrated by neighborhoods termed “Food deserts.” Questions examined include how sustainable/ethical relationships can be established between growing food and creating community, developing consciousness of place, and affirming cultural food/agricultural traditions. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3630 - Migration and Development
The impact on societies across the globe of a record 214 million-plus migrants living outside of their countries of birth. An interdisciplinary overview of the historical roots, causes, and consequences in receiving and sending nations of contemporary international migration flows. Topics include brain gain and brain drain, gender differences, immigrant diasporas, remittances, acculturation, circular migration illegal immigrant flows, and transnational human trafficking. Focus on experiences in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Students will have the opportunity to compare and contrast immigrant communities in the Denver region. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3810 - Understanding and Dealing with Uncertainty
This course discusses the concept of uncertainty from multiple perspectives. What is uncertainty? How does it relate to other notions such as ignorance or variation of risk? How do we deal with uncertainty? We will consider ideas from mathematics, science, philosophy, religion, law, and psychology, among other fields. Students will be required to develop their own ideas on uncertainty in written form and/or participate in group presentations. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3815 - Life in the Information Age
This course charts the contours, contradictions, and challenges of life in the Information Age. Adopting the perspective of technocapitalism, it explores how advances in communication technologies and changes in our economic system are altering our daily lives. Although radical change is always disruptive and disorienting, this course does not naively deny or pessimistically lament these changes. Rather, it chooses to focus on how persons can confront, address, adapt to, and excel in our rapidly changing world. Prereq: UNHL 1100 and second- or third-year status in the UNHL program. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3820 - The Economics of Life
Study of the economic approach to human behavior and its application to the analysis of markets and areas including politics, law, family life, and other social issues. Students will develop an understanding of how the economic approach differs from other approaches to analyzing these phenomena and for the possibilities and limitations of the economic approach. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3825 - Irish Music, Peace, Politics, and Popular Culture
This course explores traditional and contemporary music in Ireland, examines Irish politics and the peace process in the Republic and Northern Ireland, and considers ways in which various forms of Irish popular culture have represented Irishness and Irish identity. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3830 - Jazz in American Culture
This class will explore the influence of jazz music (and related forms like ragtime and the blues) on American culture more generally. Specific topics to be explored include the Post-Reconstruction Race Politics, the Delta and the Great Migration, New Orleans, and the Harlem renaissance. Important figures of African-American literature, and Jazz & the Blues music will also be presented. Students will examine a multitude of literary and musical experiences through novels, short works, biographies, and listening. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3835 - Evaluating Contemporary Cinema
This course focuses on the valuation of contemporary film in national and international contexts. Approaching film as an art form, students learn to critically examine and evaluate the formal aspects of cinema, including narrative, cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, etc. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3870 - History and Culture of Spanish-Speaking World
Study of the history, culture, politics, and social environment of Spain and/or the Spanish-speaking world. Topics determined by instructor. Prereq: UNHL 1100; UNHL 2870, SPAN 2120, or demonstration of second-year Spanish language proficiency through placement exam. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3910 - Ideology and Revolution
Was ideology invented in the 19th Century? Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism and Socialism were all invented in the short span of 1789 - 1870. In this course we read works of Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, J.S. Mill, and others who reacted to the French and Industrial Revolutions, hoping to repair the social fabric. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 3939 - Internship
Experiences involving application of specific, relevant concepts and skills in supervised employment situations. Prereq: Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above and permission of UNHL Director/Associate Director. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
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UNHL 3995 - Global Study
UNHL Academic Honors track and Leadership Studies track. Travel study, with location and topics to be selected by the instructor. Prereq: UNHL 1100, 2755, and permission of the UNHL Director. Max hours: 12 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 4
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UNHL 4410 - Biology and Politics
Exploration of the reciprocal relationship between biology and politics. Topics include the impact of genetics and biological development on behavior, how public policies impact human and animal biology and the ecology of the earth, and them impact of nature and nurture on racial and gender differences. Prereq: UNHL 1100. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 4815 - The Science of Food
This course will introduce students ot the science of food and how it relates to health, the human body, and mainfestation of chronic disease (cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease). Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 4820 - Scientific Thinking
Intensive analysis of primary literature from across the sciences. Students will expand their understanding and appreciation of the scientific method and develop the ability to critically analyze and evaluate experimental design in both scientific and social contexts. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 4825 - Nuclear Technology: Dilemmas & Policies of Science
From promise to devastation, nuclear technology highlights the modern dilemma of how to manage our prodigious knowledge of science with our limited understanding of human decision-making. Begins with basic nuclear chemistry and moves to the political history of our nuclear age, prompting discussions ranging from physics to metaphysics. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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UNHL 4840 - Independent Study
Max hours: 12 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
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UNHL 4850 - Faculty-Mentored Research
UNHL student research conducted under the supervision of UC Denver faculty. Prereq: Permission of sponsoring faculty mentor and UNHL Director. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
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UNHL 4991 - Senior Research Seminar I
Capstone experience for UNHL program. Students will work in teams on research projects of a multidisciplinary nature. Prereq: Fourth-year standing in the UNHL program or permission of the UNHL Director. Max hours: 2 Credits. Semester Hours: 2 to 2
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UNHL 4992 - Senior Research Seminar II
Continuation of UNHL 4991. Students will work in teams on research projects of a multidisciplinary nature. Prereq: Fourth-year standing in the UNHL program or permission of the UNHL Director. Max hours: 2 Credits. Semester Hours: 2 to 2
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URBN 6610 - Design Studio I
Working at the urban/metropolitan scale, this studio introduces design through urban structure and morphology, presenting the city as a complex ecological organism comprised of interrelated systems. Max hours: 12 Credits. Semester Hours: 6 to 6
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URBN 6611 - Design Studio II
Advances understanding and application of urban design tools, methods and practice. Studio emphasizes designer’s proactive role in shaping design using regulations and policy. Students consider real estate development, economics, aesthetic criteria, historic preservation, and methods of effective community participation. Max hours: 12 Credits. Semester Hours: 6 to 6
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URBN 6612 - International Design Studio
Immerses students in international location(s) to engage urban design in other cultures. Studio operates within network of professionals involved in contemporary urbanization projects. Focus on complexities of international practice. Students develop complete project and consider context, politics, economics and regulation. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 6 to 6
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URBN 6633 - Form and Formation of Cities
This course investigates the origins and types of human settlements; the history of cities and urbanization; urban morphology and the evolution of the built environment; urban form principles and theory; and types of urbanism. Cross-listed with URPL 6350. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URBN 6640 - History of the City
Introduces students to the history of global cities through selected typologies. Explores similarities and differences among cities considered against the larger cultural, political and socio-economic envelope of which they are part. Provides awareness of origins, growth and evolution of urban form. Cross-listed with ARCH 6240. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URBN 6641 - Design Process
Advances current practice by exploring innovative methods of design analysis, production, representation, and communication. Community participation and civic engagement are integral components of seminar. Cross-listed with URPL 6398. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URBN 6642 - Design Policy
Argues that a role of urban designers is to shape built environment through combination of physical intervention and policy development. Students review urban economic and real estate trends and assess zoning/land use regulations to understand impacts on built environment quality. Cross-listed with URPL 6397. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URBN 6643 - Graphics for Planners
Professional planners must be able to communicate their design concepts through graphical means. Students will learn to communicate with use of hand and technical drawings, color renderings, computer modeling and graphic layout design. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URBN 6644 - Sustainable Urbanism
This seminar explores the connections between ecology and urbanism. It will examine the multiple, interrelated ecological and social systems operating in the city. Students will explore innovative design processes and techniques that serve to create a higher quality of life and place with a particular emphasis on the effectiveness of sustainable design approaches at varying scales. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URBN 6645 - Global Design Practice
This seminar will educate students about critical issues related to practicing design in a global context. Course will examine diverse issues of design and planning practice from contracts, communication and culture to remote research, design opportunities and ethics. Prereq: URBN 6612. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URBN 6651 - Design Practice
Introduces students to the business of urban design through contact with prominent and innovative urban design professionals. Examines issues of design implementation; project management; communication, negotiation and facilitation; leadership; and finance. Restrictions: Restricted to ARUR-MUD majors in the College of Architecture and Planning. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URBN 6652 - Design Seminar
Investigates topical issues in urban design, typically within the framework of a theme running through an entire course of study. Focus is on critical evaluation of theory, process and methods. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URBN 6686 - Special Topics: Urban Design
Various topical concerns are offered in urban design history, theory, elements, concepts, methods, implementation strategies, and other related areas. Max hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
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URBN 6730 - International Studies Preparation
The course will prepare students to go to China, for 10-day International Summer School, 5-week China Summer Urban Design Joint Studio, 9-month Gensler Internship, and 1-year LA Dual Degree program. Topics include historic, geographic and cultural issues, and language lessons. Cross-listed with ARCH 6730, LDAR 6730, and URPL 6730. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
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URBN 6840 - Independent Study: URBN
Studies initiated by students or faculty and sponsored by a faculty member to investigate a special topic or problem related to urban design. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 3
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URBN 6930 - Urban Design Internship
Designed to provide professional practice experience in urban design. Emphasis on actual work experience in settings with client groups as students assist them in determining solutions. Program directors approval required. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 5000 - Planning History and Theory
This course offers a comprehensive review of the major historical and theoretical developments in planning; the human aspects of planning as a social, political, and community-oriented process; public engagement; social justice; planning leadership and advocacy; and the future of planning. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 5010 - Planning Methods
This course focuses on the most commonly applied quantitative and qualitative methods used in planning; data organization and management principles; and various ways to collect, analyze, and communicate data as a fundamental component of the planning process. Cross-listed with GEOG 4000. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 5020 - Planning Law and Institutions
This course covers the legal basis for planning; the evolution of planning law through a comprehensive review of landmark court decisions; and the types and hierarchies of governments, their powers and relationships, and how planning operates within those governmental contexts. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 5030 - The Planning Profession
This course offers a comprehensive survey of the breadth and depth of the planning profession; different types of planners and the organizations that employ them; business aspects of planning; planning solicitation process; planning ethics; and professional/career development in planning. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 5040 - Urban Sustainability
Examines the interface of the natural and social realms in cities. Topics include the environmental history of cities; the causes, environmental impacts and mitigation of sprawl; urban green infrastructure; and best practices in planning environmentally sustainable cities and suburbs. Cross-listed with GEOG 4000. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 5050 - Urban Development
Explores the procedures, policies and politics of planning and real estate development. Topics include the relationship between planning goals and regulations; real estate development and finance; land division, entitlement, and regulation; site planning and development review; and public infrastructure. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 5060 - Planning Workshop
An introduction to the studio environment, this course provides students with experience and knowledge/skills development in physical planning and design, the planning process, plan making, and collaborative planning, plus introductory instruction in GIS, Adobe Creative Suite, and Google SketchUp. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 6 to 6
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URPL 6000 - Planning Project Studio
This studio course requires student teams to complete a substantial planning project using a comprehensive set of knowledge/skills for real-world clients. Five focus area options offered annually: Healthy Communities, Urban Revitalization, Regional Sustainability, International Experience, and Summer in Colorado. Prereq: URPL 5060 or 6630. Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 6 to 6
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URPL 6200 - Land Development Regulations
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of the various components of land development regulation, including preliminary plats; general/final development plans; zoning; PUDs; variances; site plan/development review; land use regulators; regulatory processes. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6205 - Plan Making
This course offers a broad overview of the various types of plans and the specific processes involved in their creation, including comprehensive plans; rural/small town plans; corridor plans; small area plans; campus/ institutional plans; special plans. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6210 - Planning Communication
This course focuses on communication best practices through various media and for different planning audiences and contexts including public engagement and meeting facilitation. Students will be given multiple opportunities to hone their written, verbal, and graphic communication skills. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate Urban and Regional Planning students. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6215 - Analyzing the Built Enviroment
This course explores various means and techniques used to analyze and characterize the built environment, including land division and development measures; urban morphology; and analyzing the spatial attributes of cities and regions at varying scales and perspectives. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6220 - Advanced Research Techniques
This course offers an in-depth look at a variety of research principles and techniques, including advanced qualitative and quantitative data collection; survey design; sampling; probability distributions; hypothesis testing; inferential statistics; other topics associated with scholarly research. Prereq: URPL 5040 or permission of instructor. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6249 - Project Management
Introduces the knowledge and skills of Project Management (PM) in a business environment. Emphasis will be on the entire project life cycle, the project management process groups and the knowledge areas as presented in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) from the Project Management Institute (PMI). Managerial aspects, quantitative tools, and traditional techniques of Project Management will be covered. A variety of projects will be examined. Note: Cannot receive credit for both DSCI 6820 and BUSN 6820. Cross-listed with BANA 6650. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6250 - GIS Analysis
This course expands beyond the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems to offer intensive instruction in GIS analysis and cartography; advanced GIS applications and tools; GIS integration with other applications and technologies; innovations in geo-spatial data collection, analysis, and presentation. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6255 - Emerging Planning Technologies
This course explores the rapid pace of innovation in planning-related technologies and offers a comprehensive review of the latest web-based and mobile applications, and new technologies used in virtual participation/engagement, data collection/visualization, social media/crowdsourcing, and geo-spatial data collection and analysis. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6260 - Advanced Geo-Spatial Methods
Advanced techniques in geographic information systems, including interpolation and geostatistics, 3D rendering, terrain and viewshed analysis, spatial autocorrelation detection, site selection and prioritization, model building and automation, geodatabase design, network analysis, hydrology and watershed analysis, and public data integration. Prereq: An introductory GIS class is required before taking this class. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6300 - Planning Healthy Communities
A place-based approach to understanding the social, economic, environmental, and political factors that influence individual and community health, and health disparities. Covers policies, practices, data, and methods for healthy communities planning. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6305 - Healthy Community Assessments
This course focuses on defining, organizing, and conducting Health Impact Assessments, health measures, policies, best practices, and other types of studies and analyses related to the link between the built environment, public health, and healthy communities. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6310 - Community Food System Planning
Healthy communities require sustainable local and regional food systems. This course examines how communities can collaboratively develop and implement programs, processes and practices that help ensure food security and equitable access to healthy food options for all populations. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6349 - Global Health Studies II
Global Health Studies II: Comparative Health Systems. The course has three parts: (1) examines the social and cultural construction of sickness, systems of etiology cross culturally, the therapeutic encounter, varying roles of healer and patient, and the cultural basis of all healing systems; (2) considers health systems in the context of global health reform, and the history, organization, and roles of institutions of global health governance; and (3) considers the interrelationship of health, foreign policy and global security. Cross-listed with PBHL 4020. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6350 - Form and Formation of Cities
This course investigates the origins and types of human settlements; the history of cities and urbanization; urban morphology and the evolution of the built environment; urban form principles and theory; and types of urbanism. Cross-listed with URBN 6633. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6355 - Urban Redevelopment Strategies
This course focuses on the best practices and strategies used to help revitalize urban areas. Topics include urban infill development; TODs; adaptive reuse; historic preservation; design review; parking; public spaces; brownfield/grayfield redevelopment; culture/tourism; special districts; incentives/funding; and revitalization policies. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6360 - Urban Infrastructure
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of transit planning, including transit planning fundamentals; transit routes and systems; transit modes and technologies; ridership modeling; scheduling; operations; funding; policies and regulation; relationship to land use; and facilities/design requirements. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6365 - Parks and Public Spaces
This course offers a focused look at the role of parks and public spaces in the development and activation of cities; their designs, qualities, and components; management /operations; funding; policies; equal access; role as community and economic development tool. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6370 - Sprawl and Growth Management
This course addresses causes of sprawl (large lot zoning, highway subsidies, suburban amenities, taxes and municipal services), social and environmental consequences of sprawl, anti-sprawl growth management policies, open space preservation methods, and retrofitting suburbs. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6397 - Design Policy/Regulation
Argues that a role of urban designers is to shape built environment through combination of physical intervention and policy development. Students review urban economic and real estate trends and assess zoning/land use regulations to understand impacts on built environment quality. Cross-listed with URBN 6642. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6398 - Design Process
Advances current practice by exploring innovative methods of design analysis, production, representation, and communication. Community participation and civic engagement are integral components of seminar. Cross-listed with URBN 6641. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6399 - Introduction to Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
Focuses on developing uniform vocabulary on sustainable infrastructure across science & technology, architecture & planning, public policy, and health & behavioral sciences. Students learn concepts, principles/pathways and evaluation techniques for promoting the diffusion of sustainable urban infrastructures. Cross-listed with CVEN 5460. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6400 - Community Development
This course introduces community development, examining planners’ and other stakeholders’ roles in the field; key theories and practices; community dynamics; community-based organizations; asset-based development; social equity; and the influence of local physical and economic factors on community development. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6405 - Urban Housing
This course examines housing trends and patterns; supply and demand factors; housing policies; housing challenges (e.g., inequitable distribution, special needs, segregation/discrimination, and homelessness); sociological, demographic, and economic considerations; and the roles of planners and the public and private sectors. Cross-listed with LDAR 6755 and ARCH 6205. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6410 - Social Justice in Planning
This course investigates various social justice issues encountered in planning, including conflict resolution; advocacy; environmental justice; social equity; culture and diversity; disadvantaged populations; public engagement techniques; affordability; equal access; and policy impacts. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6449 - Urban Social Problems
Examines local government from the perspective of sociology and group dynamics. Course could include some or all of the following subjects: neighborhoods and community groups, class and race relations, community crime, social service issues, immigration, the underclass in American society, and related urban social problems. Cross-listed with PUAD 5628 and 7628. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6450 - Urban Economic Systems
This course offers an exploration into urban economic systems; local economies; urban economic development; urban market assessment; local job generation; local scenario planning; local taxes/spending; and urban fiscal/economic policies and impacts at the neighborhood and city scale. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6455 - Real Estate Development and Finance
The course offers a detailed analysis of the real estate development process, its relationship to the planning/design profession, and financial aspects of real estate development including measures of value, capitalization rates, capital budgeting, debt and equity markets and taxation. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6460 - Green Real Estate Development
This course offers an exploration into the principles, designs, policies, and best practices relating to sustainable real estate development. Topics include infill development; transit-oriented development; LEED-ND; green buildings; universal design; mixed-income projects; and net-zero developments, among others. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6499 - Preservation Theory and Practice
Philosophical questions in preservation practice; balancing significance in the environment with natural decay and demands for change. Policy issues as well as preservation and adaptation design. Cross-listd with HIPR 6010. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6500 - Environmental Planning/Management
This course addresses issues related to planning under major environmental laws, ecosystem service-based management, urban green infrastructure, urban watershed and river management, urban forest and parks planning. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6505 - Enviro. Policy & Regulation
This course focuses on the important field of environmental policy and regulation, including topics such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); environmental justice; environmental law; land use conflicts; contamination/remediation; environmental regulators; and regulatory policies and enforcement. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6510 - Energy/Natural Res. Planning
This course provides an overview of the issues associated with energy and natural resource planning. Topics include: energy policy; alternative energy development; water resources; extraction/mining; natural resource protection and regulation; resource management, policies, politics, and technologies. Cross-listed with GEOG 4260. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6515 - Sustainable Planning & Design
This course takes a comprehensive look at the principles of sustainable planning and design. Topics include: sustainability defined; measuring sustainability; sustainable planning/practices; sustainable design; LEED and other sustainability programs and organizations; environmental quality; sustainability advocacy. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6548 - Defining & Measuring Sustainability
Unique cross-disciplinary course that teaches students community engagement strategies to define sustainability goals. Life cycle assessment and material flow analysis tools used to measure environmental sustainability benchmarks. Fieldwork applies both tools to cities in Colorado. Cross-listed with CVEN 5461. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6549 - Environmental Impact Assessment
The objective of this course is to provide the foundation for understanding the environmental impact assessment process, its legal context, and the criteria and methods for procedural and substantive compliance. Prereq: URPL 5530 or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with GEOG 4220, 5220. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6550 - Transportation Planning/Policy
This course examines policy issues in urban transportation planning: how transportation system design and political/institutional contexts shape transportation decision-making; major modes of urban transportation; and the social, environmental, economic, energy, and health impacts of transportation systems. Cross-listed with GEOG 4670. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6555 - Transportation and Land Use
Examines basic concepts/methods in contemporary land use and transportation planning, including travel demand forecasting, traffic impact analysis, travel behavior, active transportation; and examples of transportation/land use interaction such as the influence of built environments on travel and transit-oriented development. Cross-listed with GEOG 4630. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6560 - Transit Planning
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of transit planning, including transit planning fundamentals; transit routes and systems; transit modes and technologies; ridership modeling; scheduling; operations; funding; policies and regulation; relationship to land use; and facilities/design requirements. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6565 - Pedestrian & Bicycle Planning
This course provides a detailed focus on the unique planning issues and factors involved with bicycle and pedestrian modes of transportation, including pedestrian/bicycle planning fundamentals; routes and systems; facilities and design requirements; funding; maintenance and operations; policies; and best practices. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6600 - Regional Planning and Economic Analysis
Provides an overview of public processes and institutions for planning housing, transportation, infrastructure and jobs at a regional scale, as well as analytic techniques to study worker and commodity flows, industrial clusters, commuting patterns, and other data regarding regional economies. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6605 - Regional Economic Systems
This course offers a comprehensive investigation into regional economic systems; metropolitan economies; regional economic development; regional market assessment; job generation; taxes/spending; and fiscal/economic policies and impacts at the metropolitan, regional, and statewide scale. Cross-listed with GEOG 4400. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6610 - Planning Sustainable Suburbs
This course takes a detailed look at the unique characteristics, issues, and challenges associated with planning and retrofitting automobile-oriented suburban communities and the opportunities for development of new communities using sustainable planning and design principles. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6615 - Small Town, Rural, and Resort Planning
This course investigates the unique characteristics, issues, and challenges associated with planning in small and/or rural communities, including agricultural issues and farmland conservation; growth management; rural economic development; and small downtown revitalization strategies. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6620 - Tourism and Resort Planning
This course investigates the unique aspects associated with planning and developing sustainable tourism infrastructure. Topics include: eco-tourism; historic tourism; cultural tourism; urban tourism; sports and recreation planning; regional tourism planning; and sustainable resort planning and development. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6625 - Sustainable Tourism Planning
This course focuses on tourism impacts on fragile cultural and ecological environments; identifying and understanding these impacts; ways to mitigate using planning approaches and tools; and how to share these understandings to persuade the public to action. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6645 - Disaster/ClimateChangePlanning
Introduces students to concepts and debates that shape disaster and climate change studies. Features case studies of disaster and climatic issues affecting Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region. Looks specifically at how planning can reduce risk and increase local resilience. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6650 - Planning in the Dev. World
This course explores the issues involved in planning in the developing world; challenges and solutions for complex development; health/community issues; social justice; cultural/technological issues; environmental justice; funding; infrastructure development; international development organizations. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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URPL 6655 - Comparative International Planning
This course investigates the global dimensions of planning, including a survey of global planning issues; a comparative analysis of planning philosophies, policies, techniques and approaches used throughout the world; and international planning coordination and organizations. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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