Land Use Planning

Advance your career in urban and regional planning by gaining theory and knowledge of budgeting, research and management, along with the fundamentals of current issues in land use planning, with a focus in either Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or community development.

The Land Use Planning Emphasis builds upon your applied planning experience to expand your career opportunities as a public sector planner in local government, a private sector land use planning consultant, or a community planner for a nonprofit organization. Students without professional planning experience may be admitted with conditions.

Students must complete the Core courses plus the following Planning courses.

Core:

  • ADM 515 Principles of Leadership
  • ADM 540 Principles of Administration
  • POS 543 Organizational Management
  • ENG 526 Advanced Professional Writing

Choice of:

One of the courses below or approved course in the area of: Research Methods, Statistics or Evaluation approved by your advisor

  •  ADM 530 Principles and Strategies of Program Evaluation
  •  POS 501 Research Methods and Analysis
  •  GSP 506 Planning Analysis and Presentation (3)
    • May substitute for ADM 530 or POS 501

Emphasis:

  • Required:
  • GSP 501 Communities and Public Planning (3)
  • GSP 521 Planning Law and Ethics (3)
  • GSP 532 GIS for Planners (3)

Community Planning Concentration

Choose 9 units from:

  • GSP 401 Planning Permitting and Review (2)
    • Required for students with limited professional planning experience
  • GSP 506 Planning Analysis and Presentation (3)
    • Not an option if used in Core area
  • GSP 514 Planning Sustainable Communities (3)
  • GSP 545 Community Planning and Public Health (3)
  • PRM 423 Recreation Facilities and Area Planning (3)
  • CM 690 Construction Contract Administration (3)
  • GSP 599 Contemporary Developments (1-4) May be taken twice with different topics
  • GSP 608 Fieldwork Experience (1-3) only for students with limited professional planning experience
  • Approved electives from the GIS Track (3-4)

Geographic Information Systems Concentration 

Choose 9 units from:

  • GSP 531 Map Design and GIS (4)
  • GSP 533 Spatial Analysis & GIS Applications (4)
  • GSP 535 Programming for GIS (4)
  • GSP 536 Enterprise Geodatabase (4)
  • GSP 537 GIS Modeling and Analysis: Raster (4)
  • GSP 538 Modeling and Analysis: Vector (4)
  • Approved electives from the Community Planning Track (1-4)

Capstone class:

  •  ADM 689 Capstone project






     

 Emphasis Contact


Alan Lew 928-523-6567

Alan.Lew@nau.edu

 








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