URP 5101 Planning Theory and Practice. A general introduction to the field of planning, examining the intellectual heritage and procedural approaches shared by practitioners working in all areas of contemporary planning practice. Introduces students to the general area of planning theory and some of the fundamental political and ethical issues they will face in planning practice.

URP 5122 Dispute Resolution. Complex regulatory disputes frequently slow public sector decision making and cripple major private sector investments. Parties to disputes, such as in the location of locally unwanted land uses, the setting of air and water quality standards, or the evaluation of urban and transportation plans, frequently fail to cooperate to achieve the best possible outcomes. This course examines why this is so and tries to develop the skills necessary for planners to improve the outcomes in contentious decision making by mediating between conflicting parties.

URP 5123 Collaborative Governance: Consensus Building for Planners.

URP 5125 Plan Implementation. Course covers the core administrative, legal, and political aspects of plan-making and policy implementation. Course topics include: legal aspects of plan-making and legal research methods, policy implementation and the politics of implementation, interorganizational cooperation, and public participation in planning.

URP 5201 Planning Research Methods. Focuses on the social research and evaluation methods used in planning, including: the linkage between theory, research, and policy; conceptualization and operationalization of the research problem; study designs; sampling; data sources and collection techniques; the logic of data analysis; and micro-computer use.

URP 5211 Planning Statistics. An introduction to descriptive and associative statistics as applied to public policy problems encountered by planners. Covers basic definitions and descriptive measures, probability theory, distributions, sampling, and inference. Elementary multivariate techniques are treated, including those appropriate to the analysis of nominal and interval scales.

URP 5222 Planning Alternatives Evaluation. (Prerequisites - URP 5101 and URP 5201, or permission of instructor) Focuses on methods used to analyze problems and formulate action alternatives. Emphasis is given to a variety of policy analytic techniques, including modeling, applied economic analysis, probability and risk, goals achievement, and cost benefit and cost effectiveness in the assessment of alternative courses of action.

URP 5261 Forecasting for Urban Development. Deals with the methods used in plan analysis and development. Emphasis is given to demographic analysis and projection techniques, and economic base analysis. Students are required to use these methods in preparing a demographic, economic and land use analysis for a Florida county and sub-county area.

URP 5272 Urban and Regional Information Systems. Introduction to concepts, structures, and functions of geographic information systems and their application to planning research and practice as well as theory and techniques of effective communication of planning information through electronic and print media.

URP 5312 Growth Management. Introduction to the problems and needs of growth management and comprehensive planning in U.S. cities, covering public and private perspectives on development and growth management, state and national institutions involved in development, and planning approaches available for meeting the growth management problem.

URP 5316 Land-Use Planning. This course provides an opportunity for students to examine and understand existing land use planning methods and formats, develop their land use planning skills, and gain experience by developing a land use plan for a small hypothetical city.

URP 5342 Advanced Planning Problems (Prerequisites or Co-requisites - URP 5222 and URP 5261, permission of instructor) This course involves team study of specialized planning problems. It requires teams of students to select problems to which the planning process can be applied and which require the use of methods and techniques learned in the core program and in a student's specialization. The course, along with the thesis (URP 5971) or directed independent research (URP 5910) options, serves as a capstone requirement of the program.

URP 5350 Pedestrian Oriented Communities. Course focuses on merging transportation planning with neotraditional design concepts as a means to promoting communities in which pedestrians are safe and comfortable and are able to walk to various public and private services.

URP 5421 Environmental Planning. Provides a general introduction to the related problems of resource management and environmental planning through an overview of problems, potential solutions, and their relation to methodologies, existing institutions, and other public policy areas such as land use controls and regional development.

URP 5422 Coastal Planning. Examines the planning and management of coastal environments including coastal geomorphic processes, coastal ecosystems, legal structures, and regulatory strategies. Issues include coastal hazards, critical lands management, protection of coastal ecosystems, public access, and sea level rise.

URP 5424 Sustainable Development Planning in the Americas. Examines various dimensions of the "sustainable development" paradigm and its local-global policy implications, issues and controversies with focus on North American and Latin America . Organized in three modules: 1)environmental philosophies that have influenced the movement; 2) North American approaches to planning for sustainable development; and 3)critical issues of sustainable development in Latin America .

URP 5425 Methods of Environmental Analysis. Examines available methods of environmental impact analysis and control and contemporary methods for valuing environmental costs and benefits.

URP 5427 Environmental Legislation and Policy. Introduces legal concepts and doctrines relevant to the use and protection of natural resources, ecosystems, and environmental quality. The roles of courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies in responding to the problems and formulating control strategies are examined.

URP 5429 Saving the Apalachicola. The purpose of this class is to give students an understanding of how the Apalachicola River operates as a system from a biological, hydrological and geopolitical basis and to examine critical issues in interstate negotiations between three states and the federal Government to manage the watershed as a basin.

URP 5521 Public Health Epidemiology. This course presents selected information, concepts, and methods from the field of epidemiology with emphasis on the methods by which risk factors are identified and evaluated as potential causes of health-related events. It is geared toward providing students a basic understanding of epidemiology, its role as the foundation for public health, and how it is practiced.

URP 5540 Economic Development. Critically analyzes the strategy and tools for developing employment and investment in American state and local economies. Covers programs targeted to depressed urban communities and neighborhoods, unskilled and displaced workers, downtown and neighborhood commercial areas, small businesses, and specific sectors (e.g., high technology). The course also discusses the major trends in the location of business (including the development of the Sunbelt and the increased international competition with American industry) that affect the planning of state and local economies.

URP 5544 Gender and Development. Examines effects of planned and unplanned development on women and strategies pursued to address productive roles of women, not reproductive roles.

URP 5610 Development Areas. This course will analyze the problems of developing countries as integral parts of a more general process of the development of human societies on a global scale. The approach of the course to the issues and problems of planning will be spatial, permitting coverage of the economic, social, political and cultural aspects of the development process within an interdisciplinary framework. Particular topics will include the meaning of development, the measurement and indicators of development, analytic and administrative strategies for integrating economic and physical planning, and procedures for preparing development plans.

URP 5611 Strategies for LDCs. Approaches the question of formulating and implementing effective strategies for development by identifying the obstacles and opportunities for planned change in less-developed countries. Three levels of development are discussed: international, national, and sub-national. At each level the relevant theories and available policy options are presented and evaluated. Spatial strategies, that incorporate the unique aspects of people and places, are emphasized.

URP 5614 Population and Development Planning. This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of issues, methods, strategies and problems related to the integration of population information with policies for guiding the social and economic development of third world nations. Topics to be covered include demographic conditions and trends, population policies, the influence of demographic conditions on societal development, alternative policy and program strategies for promoting regional and societal development, and procedures for better utilization of demographic information in policy making.

URP 5615 Housing and Infrastructure in LDCs. An examination of infrastructure and housing issues in developing countries, including relationships between infrastructure and development, demand and supply of new facilities, financing alternatives, squatter housing, and self-help strategies.

URP 5616 Project Planning. The project cycle will be used as a reference point to discuss the following issues: Problem identification and basic needs assessment, feasibility studies, selection of most appropriate activities, implementation and evaluation of results. The course will also explore the implications for blueprint vs. process oriented approaches to project design and implementation.

URP 5711 Transportation Planning. Introduction to the U.S. transportation system and how planning is done for it. Examines contemporary U.S. transportation problems, sources of funding, institutions, and legislation. Presents the theory and methods employed by planners in resolving transportation problems through investment decision plans, operating strategies, and government policies. Stresses the close relationship between transportation and land use decisions.

URP 5716 Transportation and Land Use. Examines the critical relationship between the transportation system and the built environment. Topics include urban and economic theories of transportation-land use interaction, the concept of accessibility, the effects of land use decisions on transportation, the effects of transportation decisions on land use, parking policy, measures of transportation system performance, and the concept of transit-oriented development. Additional topics are included on a periodic basis.

URP 5717 Transportation Demand Analysis. The theory of transportation demand, what planning models are and how to use them, elasticity analysis, estimating several direct demand models with SPSS and a real-world data set, interpreting the estimation output, learning to read a journal article presenting a demand analysis, learning the basics of highway and transit modeling with the FSUTMS micro-computer modeling system. This is an intensive, hands-on computer modeling course.

URP 5731 The Planning of Community Infrastructure. Examines issues and techniques in planning for community infrastructure. Emphasis is placed on capital intensive infrastructure systems, but other services and facilities are covered. Considerable attention is devoted to analyzing variations in demand for infrastructure associated with land use types, intensities and spatial form.

URP 5742 Housing and Community Development. Introduction to housing and community development issues, problems and policy. Attention is focused on the operation of the housing market, historical development of housing and community development problems, and the evaluation of public and private sector responses to these problems.

URP 5743 Neighborhood Planning. Introduction to theory and practice of planning with neighborhoods. Course focuses on the ways in which planning can enable neighborhood residents, with help from other private and public sector actors, to enhance the attractiveness of their neighborhood.

URP 5745 Housing and Community Development Methods. Prepares students in key skills needed to study and measure housing demand and supply. The first part of the course is spent on understanding and applying techniques for measuring housing need and demand. The remainder of the course focuses on the real estate finance skills and techniques commonly used to develop low income housing.

URP 5749r Community Development Systems. Advanced seminar in selected housing and community development issues and problems.Content varies.

URP 5847 The Growth and Development of Cities. Introduction to the various economic, social, demographic, technological, political and environmental factors affecting the location, development and growth or decline of cities, as well as the distribution of activities (industry, commerce, population, public facilities) within them.

URP 5873 Site Design and Land Use Analysis. This course focuses on the study and evaluation of the built environment, with particular reference to those aspects of the development process that result in "better" physical forms. Through this course students should gain an appreciation for the architectural and design elements of land use development, be in a position to evaluate alternative site designs for impacts on use and functioning, and relate the design and uses of land to planning and growth control mechanisms in a critical way.

URP 5881 Urban Design. This course examines key issues in contemporary urban design and architecture, focusing on the form of the city and current trends in urban design practice. Through exposure to past and current issues, theories, and values in urban design, students will develop a critical understanding of the wider social and environmental impacts of the shape, structure and design of historic and contemporary urban projects and developments.

URP 5885 Graphics Communication for Urban Planning and Design.

URP 5905r Directed Individual Study (S/U grade only)

URP 5910r Directed Individual Research (S/U grade only)

URP 5930r Professional Topics (0 hrs.). A selected professional topics course, including visiting speakers, field trips, and other events.

URP 5939 Gender and the City. Cities provide a broad range of economic opportunities and permit a variety of non-traditional social behaviors. However, not all citizens are equally able to participate in these opportunities and behaviors. Students will use gender as a lens to examine conditions in the city and consider the ways in which gender constrains or facilitates opportunities. Ways in which race, ethnicity, and class interact with gender to exacerbate any gendered bias will also be considered.

URP 5944 Dispute Resolution Practicum. In this course, students will work under the direct leadership of a professional facilitator or mediator on actual public participation, consensus building or conflict resolution projects. There may be opportunities to do conflict assessments, process designs, agendas, facilitations, mediations, and project evaluations. Emphasis will be on the practical integration of dispute resolution theory and practice.

URP 5971 Master's Thesis (S/U grade only)

URP 6102 Seminar in Planning Theory. Planning is viewed as the attempt to apply the methods and findings of the sciences to practical questions of public policy. Philosophy of science, ethical theory and political philosophy are examined for the implications each has for this view. For doctoral and advanced master's students only.

URP 6202 Design of Policy-Oriented Research. The process and design of empirical research used in the analysis of policy and planning problems. Strengths and weaknesses of alternative research designs are considered from an epistemological viewpoint. Strategies for overcoming design limitations imposed by policy contexts are emphasized.

URP 6846 Seminar in Urban Theory. Examines major bodies of theory and alternative perspectives for explaining urbanization and the growth of cities. Focus is on intra-urban theory: the patterns and processes of development with an urban area. For doctoral and advanced master's students only.

URP 6847 Seminar in Regional Theory. Examines major bodies of theory and alternative perspectives for explaining urbanization and the growth of cities. Focus is on inter-urban theory: regional development and the relationships between cities. For doctoral and advanced master's students only.

URP 6938 Research Colloquium (0 hours). Seminar for doctoral students addressing issues of interest in research, teaching, and career development.

URP 6980 Dissertation (S/U grade only)

URP 6981 Supervised Teaching (S/U grade only)

URP 8960 Preliminary Examination Preparation (S/U grade only)

URP 8969 Preliminary Doctoral Examination(S/U grade only)

URP 8976 Masters Thesis Defense (S/U grade only)

URP 8985 Dissertation Defense (S/U grade only)