Community Planning & Resilience
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
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | 16 | |
| Comprehensive Emergency Management Planning | ||
| Disaster Mitigation | ||
or DREM 683 | Disaster Recovery | |
| Resilience for Designers, Planners, and Managers | ||
| Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | ||
| Landscape Theory, Research, + Scholarly Methods | ||
| Electives (minimum) | 14 | |
| Professional Topics in Architecture * | ||
| Business Continuity & Crisis Management | ||
| Voluntary Agency Disaster Services | ||
DREM 790 Graduate Seminar * | ||
| Advanced Geographic Information Systems | ||
| Remote Sensing of the Environment | ||
| Geographic Information Systems Pattern Analysis and Modeling | ||
| Professional Topics in Landscape Architecture * | ||
| Total Credits | 30 | |
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Course may be repeated for credit.