Community Planning & Resilience

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The Community Planning & Resilience degree offers students the opportunity to focus on the concepts of resilience and planning from an interdisciplinary perspective. The program includes instruction in disaster management, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, geographic information systems (GIS), and sustainable development. Students will be prepared to identify shocks and stressors that can influence communities, create strategies/approaches to address these complex urban challenges, and bring together the necessary stakeholders and funding opportunities to implement strategies. 

Degree Requirements

Required Courses16
DREM 610
Comprehensive Emergency Management Planning
DREM 613
Disaster Mitigation
or DREM 683
 Disaster Recovery
DREM 720
Resilience for Designers, Planners, and Managers
GEOG 655
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
LA 722
Landscape Theory, Research, + Scholarly Methods
Electives (minimum)14
ARCH 789
Professional Topics in Architecture *
DREM 661
Business Continuity & Crisis Management
DREM 663
Voluntary Agency Disaster Services
DREM 790 Graduate Seminar *
GEOG 656
Advanced Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 665
Remote Sensing of the Environment
GEOG 680
Geographic Information Systems Pattern Analysis and Modeling
LA 789
Professional Topics in Landscape Architecture *
Total Credits30
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Course may be repeated for credit.