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Geography and City and Regional Planning

City and Regional Planning Minor

The City and Regional Planning Minor consists of 21 units of urban planning and geography courses as well as courses related to urban issues from other departments in the College of Social Science. The minor degree provides exposure to urban and regional issues in American cities and how urban and regional planning can help to address these problems.

Coordinator: Consult department chair, Geography and Planning Department.

Faculty Advisers: Undergraduate advisors of the Geography and Planning Department, Anthropology Department, and Sociology Department.

Required Courses

Concepts and Issues* (9 units)

CRP 80 - Introduction to Cities and Urban Planning (3 units)
CRP 125 - Environmental Planning (3 units)
CRP 110 - Planning Process and Theory (3 units) , CRP 120 - Community Development Theory & Practice (3 units) or SOC 163 - Urban Sociology (3 units)

Methods and Techniques* (6-9 units) - Select from the following list of courses:

CRP 130 - Transportation Planning (3 units)
CRP 140 - Economics for Planners (3 units)
GEOG 132 - United States Environmental Law (3 units)
GEOG 141 - GIS I: Data Display and Manipulation (3 units)
PLSI 90 - Methods of Analysis of Quantitative Political Data (3 units)
SOC 175 - Quantitative Research Methods in Sociology (4 units)
Fresno State Catalog

Electives (3-6 units) - With the approval of a program advisor, select 3-6 units of the following courses:

AFRS 1 - Ethnic Experience (3 units)
AFRS 135 - The African American Community (3 units)
BA 154 - Real Estate Law (3 units)
CRIM 2 - Administration of Justice  (3 units)
CRP 115 - Urban Design (3 units)
CRP 130 - Transportation Planning (3 units)
CRP 140 - Economics for Planners (3 units)
CRP 150B - Community Plan Making - B (3 units)
ECON 40 - Principles of Microeconomics (3 units)
FIN 180 - Real Estate Principles (3 units)
GEOG 132 - United States Environmental Law (3 units)
GEOG 142 - GIS II: Data Creation and Project Implementation (3 units)
GEOG 160 - Urban Geography ( 3 units)
GEOG 192 - Directed Readings (3 units)
PLSI 103 - California Politics (3 units)
PLSI 163 - Municipal Government  (3 units)
SOC 111 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity  (3 units)
SOC 163 - Urban Sociology (3 units)
AFRS  104W - Writing About American Inequality (3 units)
ANTH 120 - Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S. (3 units)
CLAS 3 - Introduction to Chicano/Latino Studies (3 units)
CRP 110 - Planning Process and Theory (3 units)
CRP 120 - Community Development Theory & Practice (3 units)
CRP 135 - Planning Law & Administration (3 units)
CRP 150A - Community Plan Making - A (3 units)
CRP 191T - Topics in Urban Planning Techniques (1-3 units)
ECON 50 - Principles of Macroeconomics (3 units)
GEOG 128 - Environmental Pollution (3 units)
GEOG 141 - GIS I: Data Display and Manipulation (3 units)
GEOG 143 - GIS III: Spatial Analysis and Modeling (3 units)
GEOG 190 - Independent Study (1-3 units)
PLSI 90 - Methods of Analysis of Quantitative Political Data  (3 units)
PLSI 160 - State and Local Governments  (3 units)
PLSI 181 - Public Administration (3 units)
SOC 131 - Sociology of Sex and Gender (3 units)

Geography and City and Regional Course Description

Total (21 units)

* Students with a course equivalent to one in this category, taken in their major, may, with the approval of the coordinator, substitute additional units from the electives list for the units required here.

Note: The minors also require a minimum of 2.0 GPA and 6 upper-division units in residence.

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