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PUBLIC POLICY [6]

PUB PLC CM250. Environmental and Resource Economics and Policy. (4)
(Formerly numbered C250.) (Same as Urban Planning M267.) Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 204 and 208, or Urban Planning 207 and 220B. Survey of ways economics is used to define, analyze, and resolve problems of environmental management. Overview of analytical questions addressed by environmental economists which bear on public policies. Concurrently scheduled with course C115. Letter grading. Prof. J.R. De Shazo [7]

PUB PLC M223. Transportation and Environmental Issues. (4)
(Same as Urban Planning M258.) Lecture, three hours. Regulatory structure linking transportation, air quality, and energy issues, chemistry of air pollution, overview of transportation-related approaches to air quality enhancement; new car tailpipe standards; vehicle inspection and maintenance issues; transportation demand management and transportation control measures; alternative fuels and electric vehicles; corporate average fuel economy and global warming issues; growth of automobile worldwide fleet; the automobile in the sustainability debate. Letter grading. Prof. Randall Crane [8]

URBAN PLANNING [9]

URB PLN M190. Human Environment: Introduction to Architecture and Urban Planning. (4)
(Same as Architecture and Urban Design M190.) Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Kinds of problems that arise in creating and maintaining an environment for urban activities, and approaches and methods of architecture and urban planning in helping to cope with such problems. Complexities involved in giving expression to human needs and desires in provision of shelters and movement systems, to possibilities and limitations of technology and building forms, and to issues involved in relating the human-made to the natural environment. Students encouraged to comprehend major urban issues both as citizens and as potential technical experts.

URB PLN M206A. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. (4)
(Formerly numbered 206A.) (Same as Public Policy M224A.) Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour. Preparation: one graduate-level statistics course, familiarity with one of the packaged statistics programs. Principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and applied techniques of using spatial data for mapping and analysis. Topics include data quality, data manipulation, spatial analysis, and information systems. Use of mapping and spatial analysis to address a planning problem. Letter grading.

URB PLN M206B. Advanced Geographic Information Systems. (4)
(Same as Public Policy M224B.) Lecture, four hours; laboratory, four hours. Requisite: course M206A or Public Policy M224A. Principles and skills of geographic analysis and modeling; managing, processing, and interpreting spatial data. Especially useful for students interested in environmental, demographic, suitability, and transportation-related research. Scripts (Avenue), modeling (Spatial Analyst), network analysis, and transportation modeling (TransCAD). Letter grading.

URB PLN 234A. Development Theory. (4)
(Formerly numbered 266.) Lecture, three hours. Review of basic literature and schools of thought on development theory through analysis of impact of mercantilism, colonialism, capitalism, and socialism on various urban and rural social and economic structures in the Third World. Presentation, through evaluation of theoretical writings and case studies, of complexity and diversity of developing countries. Emphasis on linkages between policy and rural and urban impacts. Gives students important background for courses 234B, M234C, and many of the other planning courses addressing Third World issues. Letter grading.

URB PLN 234B. Rural Development Issues. (4)
(Formerly numbered 267B.) Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: course 234A. Development more thoroughly of themes raised in earlier courses. Topics may include peasantries, development and rural women, agricultural ecology, comparative land reform, agrarian revolution, and special problems of tropical development. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Letter grading.

URB PLN M234C. Resource-Based Development. (4)
(Formerly numbered M267A.) (Same as Geography M229.) Discussion, three hours. Recommended preparation: course 234A. Some major issues associated with development of specific natural resources. Topics include nature of particular resource (or region associated with it), its previous management, involvement of the state, corporations, and local groups, and environmental and social impact of its development. Letter grading.

URB PLN 249. Special Topics in Social Policy and Analysis. (2 to 8)
Seminar, three hours. Topics in social policy and analysis selected by faculty. May be repeated for credit.

URB PLN 260. Environmental Politics and Governance. (4)
(Formerly numbered 260A, 260B.) Lecture, three hours. Environmental planning is more than simply finding problems and fixing them. Each policy must be negotiated and implemented within multiple, complex systems of governance. Institutions and politics matter deeply. Overview of how environmental governance works in practice and how it might be improved. Letter grading.

URB PLN 261. Land-Use Control: Economic and Structural Perspectives. (4)
Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 260A, 260B. Comparison of regulatory methods of land-use control to command or planning methods. Basics of land use as a commodity in first part: land economics, land markets. Development, historically, of a structuralist perspective on use of land in cities and regions in second part. Land-use regulation (in third part) in light of first two, to see how effective it is in steering course of land development. Regulatory approach compared with real planning.

URB PLN 262B. Urban Environmental Problems: Water Resources. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Water is life and wealth in California, which has world's most extensive long-distance, interbasin water transfer system. To date, water resources planning has been devoted almost exclusively to adding facilities for water delivery. But conflicts over additional developments have basically precluded further extension of this system, despite growing pressures to increase supplies. Examination of environmental impacts, geography, use of water, and consideration of resource planning.

URB PLN M262C. Pollution Prevention. (2)
(Same as Environmental Health Sciences M239.) Seminar, one hour. Designed for graduate students. Series of talks by academics, policymakers, industry representatives, and public interest advocates addressing opportunities for and obstacles to adopting principles of pollution prevention, including several case studies of specific policy and industry initiatives in this area. S/U grading.

URB PLN 263. Natural Resource Conservation. (4)
Discussion, three hours. Requisites: courses 260A, 260B. Exploration, through reading, discussion, and student presentations, of meaning of resource conservation, its desirability, and ways of achieving it. Emphasis on integrated management of public lands, though students may attend particularly to a specific resource (minerals, water, timber, wilderness).

URB PLN M264. Environmental Law. (3 to 6)
(Same as Law M290.) Lecture, three to three and one-half hours. Examination of the field of environmental law through analysis of various legal issues and public policy: legal consequences of public decision-making strategies and allocation of primary responsibility for various environmental decisions. Focus on air pollution and Clean Air Act as a means of illustrating policy issues underlying the field.

URB PLN C265. Environmentalism: Past, Present, and Future. (4 to 6)
Discussion, three hours; optional field study, five to 10 hours. Exploration of history, politics, and theories of environmental movements, dynamics of race, class, and gender in relation to environmental agendas, and potential role of environmentalism in reshaping our society. Readings, discussion, and research papers. Offered annually as a graduate research seminar and biannually as an undergraduate upper division lecture and field studies program. Concurrently scheduled with course CM189. S/U or letter grading.

URB PLN C266. Global Environment and Development: Problems and Issues. (4)
(Formerly numbered C252.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Questions of population, resource use, Third World poverty, and the environment. Analysis of global economic restructuring and its connections to changing organization of production and resulting environmental impacts. Examination of emergent local and regional coalitions for self-reliance and sustainable development. Case studies from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the U.S. Concurrently scheduled with course CM128. S/U or letter grading.

URB PLN 268. Advanced Seminar: Environmental Analysis and Policy. (4)
Discussion, three hours. Generally designed for second-year M.A. and Ph.D. students. Exploration of broad issues related to environmental and resource planning. May be repeated for credit.

URB PLN 269. Special Topics in Environmental Analysis and Policy. (2 to 8)
Seminar, three hours. Topics in environmental analysis and policy selected by faculty. May be repeated for credit.

URB PLN 280. Nonprofit Development. (4)
(Formerly numbered 216.) Discussion, three hours. Overview of basic concepts and skills utilized in nonprofit development initiatives, especially by community-based organizations. Focus on nonprofit provision of subsidized housing, emphasizing way professionals "broker" debt and equity funding from private, governmental, and philanthropic sources. Use of client projects and negotiation exercises. S/U or letter grading.

ECONOMICS [10]

ECON 204F Natural Resource Economics
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ECON 204H Applications of Economic Theory: Environmental Economics
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ECON 286B. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Development Projects. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 286A. Methodology for evaluating investment projects, with special attention to types of issues that arise in developing countries. Discussion of social versus private evaluation criteria; applications to highway, electricity, and irrigation projects. S/U or letter grading.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES [11]

ENV HTL 201. Seminar: Health Effects of Environmental Contaminants. (2)
Seminar, two hours. Requisites: courses 200A, 200B, 210, 230, 250. Emphasis on health effects of air, water, environmental pollutants on man and review of research literature. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

ENV HTL 202. Seminar: Environmental Chemistry. (2)
Seminar, one hour. Requisites: courses 200A, 200B, 410A, 410B. Environmental chemistry aspects of environmental health sciences through multimedia analyses and biological and microbiological analyses. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.

ENV HTL 204. Seminar: Exposure Assessment. (2)
Seminar, two hours. Discussion of various topics in exposure assessment. Topics vary by term and include aspects of population activity, microenvironments, types of monitoring (outdoor, indoor, personal, biomarkers), and multimedia sources of exposure. S/U grading.

ENV HTL 206. Seminar: Applied Coastal Ecology. (2)
Seminar. two hours. Discussion of various topics in applied coastal ecology. Topics vary by term and include wetland ecology, restoration ecology, and ecology and management of coastal watersheds. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.

ENV HTL 212. Applied Ecology. (4)
Lecture, four hours. Preparation: one ecology course. Application of ecological theory and principles to solve environmental problems, including conservation biology, assessment of environmental impacts, and restoration ecology and mitigation of environmental impacts. Letter grading.

ENV HTL 230. Environmental Management. (4)
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Economics 100, Mathematics M112, 115A, Political Science 140A, 142B. Introduction to foundations and principles of environmental management, decision making, and evaluation of environmental policies and programs. Letter grading.

ENV HTL 231. Environmental Decision Systems Analysis. (4)
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 230. Techniques and models of systems analysis and concepts of general system theory as applied to comprehensive study, planning, evaluation, and management of environmental decision systems. Experimentation with relevant computer programs. S/U or letter grading.

ENV HTL 234. Critical Readings in Environmental Policy for Scientists and Engineers. (4)
Lecture, one hour; discussion, three hours. Requisite: course 230 or 235. Designed for graduate science and engineering students. Critical analysis of environmental policies, regulations, and decisions and their scientific basis. Literature revision, classroom presentation, and research paper required. Letter grading.

ENV HTL 235. Quantitative Methods for Environmental Assessment. (4)
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or public health, one term of statistics, one year of advanced mathematics. Introduction to quantitative methods for evaluating health effects and environmental impacts of human activities; concepts of environmental assessments and planning. Assignments include statistics analysis, risk assessment, economic methods. Examples from U.S. and California regulations, policy, project environmental assessments. Letter grading.

ENV HTL 252D. Properties and Measurement of Airborne Particles. (4)
Lecture, four hours. Preparation: one year each of chemistry, physics, and calculus. Basic theory and application of aerosol science to environmental health, including properties, behavior, sampling, and measurement of aerosols and quantitative problems. S/U or letter grading.

ENV HTL 253A. Physical Agents in Work Environment. (2)
(Formerly numbered 253.) Lecture, two hours. Preparation: one year of physics. Requisite: course 250. Physics, measurement methods, health effects, and control methods for radiation (ionizing and nonionizing), noise, and heat in the workplace environment. S/U or letter grading.

ENV HTL 253B. Physical Agents Laboratory. (2)
Laboratory, two hours. Requisite: course 253A. Hands-on experience in use of survey instruments for evaluation of worker exposure to various physical agents encountered in work environment. Letter grading.

ENV HTL 255. Control of Airborne Contaminants in Industry. (4)
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours. Preparation: one year of physics. Requisites: courses 250, 252D. Principles and applications of control technology to industrial environments, including general and local exhaust ventilation, air cleaning equipment, and respiratory protection. S/U or letter grading.

GEOGRAPHY [12]

GEOG 213. Seminar: Biogeography. (4)
Discussion, three hours; reading period, two hours. Requisite: course 208 or 212. Related research projects growing out of course 208 or 212. May be repeated for credit.

GEOG 230. Political Ecology. (4)
Seminar, three hours; reading period, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Exploration of theoretical constructs and approaches to analyses of development and the environment associated with political ecology. Examination of relations between poverty, ecological degradation, and global restructuring. Case studies of changing production organization and ecology of land-use patterns within different and emergent economic and political contexts. S/U or letter grading.

LAW [13]

LAW 290. International Law and the Global Environment
This introductory course will focus on the variety of legal mechanisms that regulate the environment including common law property and tort doctrines such as nuisance and negligence, as well as the major federal statutes such as RCRA, CERCLA, NEPA, the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act. Statutes will be studied in some detail but also as examples of different regulatory approaches, ranging from "command and control" regulation to "incentive based" and "information disclosure" strategies. We will study some of the hot issues in environmental law such as the remediation of hazardous waste sites and the revitalization of Takings jurisprudence by property rights advocates under the 5th Amendment. We will also think strategically, from both the industry and environmentalist perspective, about how law may be an instrument of social change. We will explore the field from a number of perspectives - as a site of intense group conflict, as an example of how regulation can both fail and succeed to achieve its goals, as an opportunity for public-private cooperation in governance, and as an example of a technical and scientifically driven area of law.

LAW M290. Environmental Law
Description not available.

LAW 441 Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions
Description not available.

SOCIOLOGY [14]

SOCIOL M213A. Introduction to Demographic Methods. (4)
(Formerly numbered 213A.) (Same as Biostatistics M208 and Community Health Sciences M208.) Lecture, four hours. Preparation: one introductory statistics course. Introduction to methods of demographic analysis. Topics include demographic rates, standardization, decomposition of differences, life tables, survival analysis, cohort analysis, birth interval analysis, models of population growth, stable populations, population projection, and demographic data sources. Letter grading.

SOCIOL 213B. Techniques of Demographic and Ecological Analysis. (4)
Requisite: course 210A. Procedures and techniques for collection, evaluation, and analysis of demographic and ecological data; models of population and ecological structure and change; applications to study of social structure and social change.

SOCIOL 285A-285Z. Special Topics in Sociology. (4 each)
Seminar, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Seminars on selected current topics of sociological interest. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics and instructors. May be repeated for credit.

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Environmental Undergraduate Courses

MPP students are able to take some of these undergraduate courses listed here if they have not had them as undergraduates. These courses will not count toward the 72 units for the MPP degree. Graduate students can petition to take up to 8 units of upper division undergraduate courses to count toward their graduate degree. This petition will require the permission of the graduate faculty advisor and the Public Policy Department Chair. Approval of this petition will be made on a case-by-case basis.

EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES [15]

E&S SCI 5. Environmental Geology of Los Angeles. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours; field trips. Geologic hazards and natural resources of greater Los Angeles region. Topics include Los Angeles geologic hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, and floods; Southern California oil fields; gold and gem mining in the region; local beach processes; and Los Angeles water-resource problems. Field trips to San Andreas fault, California aqueduct, active landslides, and historic gold mines. P/NP or letter grading.

ECONOMICS [10]

ECON 134A. Environmental Economics. (4)
(Formerly numbered 134.) Lecture, three hours; discussion/quiz, one hour. Requisites: courses 11, 101. Application of economic theory to natural and environmental resources problems. Topics include sustainability and natural resource scarcity, steady-state models for renewable resources (land and water, fisheries, forests), externalities and pollution (including use of incentives for pollution control), and nonrenewable resources (minerals). P/NP or letter grading.

ECON 134B. Economics of Environmental Regulation. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 134A. Social choice theory, efficiency and markets, public bads and externalities, property rights, Pigovian fees, marketable permits, legal solutions, risk and uncertainty, international and interregional competition, economy-wide effects of environmental regulations, and formal environmental demand theory. P/NP or letter grading.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE [16]

ENVRON M1A. Global Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspective I. (5)
(Same as GE Clusters M1A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course M1A is enforced requisite to M1B, which is enforced requisite to M1CW. Human effects on Earth's ecosystem and social and technological solutions to environmental pollution and overpopulation. History and ecology in lectures; laboratory exercises included in discussions. Letter grading.

ENVRON M1B. Global Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspective II. (5)
(Same as GE Clusters M1B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course M1A. Human effects on Earth's ecosystem and social and technological solutions to environmental pollution and overpopulation. History and ecology in lectures; laboratory exercises included in discussions. Letter grading.

ENVRON M1CW. Global Environment: Special Topics. (5)
(Formerly numbered M1C.) (Same as GE Clusters M1CW.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisites: course M1B, and English Composition 3 or 3H. Not open for credit to students with credit for former course M1C. Examination of specialized environmental topics such as air and water, global warming, and feeding Earth's population. Satisfies Letters and Science Writing II requirement. Letter grading. Environmental Health Sciences Courses

ENV HTL 100. Introduction to Environmental Health. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: one course each in chemistry and biology. Introduction to environmental health, including coverage of sanitary principles and chronic and acute health effects of environmental contaminants. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOGRAPHY [12]

GEOG 1. Physical Environment. (4)
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Study of Earth's physical environment, with particular reference to the nature and distribution of landforms and climate.

GEOG 5. People and the Earth's Ecosystems . (5)
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Exploration of ways in which human activity impacts natural environment and how modification of environment can eventually have significant consequences for human activity. Examination, using case studies, of real environmental problems that confront us today. P/NP or letter gradin

GEOG 100. Principles of Geomorphology . (4)
Lecture, three hours; reading period, one hour. Requisite: course 1. Recommended: course 100A. Study of processes that shape the world's landforms, with emphasis on weathering, mass movement and fluvial erosion, transport, deposition; energy and material transfers; space and time considerations.

GEOG 104. Climatology . (4)
Lecture, three hours; reading period, one hour. Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of the many relations between climate and the world of man. Application of basic energy budget concepts to the microclimates of relevance to ecosystems of agriculture, animals, man, and urban places. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 105. Hydrology. (4)
Lecture, three hours; reading period, one hour. Prerequisite: upper division standing or consent of instructor. Corequisite: course 105A. Recommended: courses M40, 104, or equivalent. Role of water in geographic systems: hydrologic phenomena in relation to climate, landforms, soils, vegetation, and cultural processes and impacts on the landscape. Field projects required. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG M107. Soil and Water Conservation . (4)
(Formerly numbered 107.) (Same as Environment M114.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for juniors/seniors. Systematic study of processes of and hazards posed by erosion, sedimentation, and pollution and techniques needed to conserve soil and maintain environmental quality. Scope includes agriculture, forest engineering, mining, and other rural uses of land. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 108. World Vegetation . (4)
Lecture, three hours; reading period, one hour. Limited to juniors/seniors. Characteristics, distribution, environmental and cultural relationships of world's principal vegetation patterns. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 110. Population and Natural Resources. (4)
Lecture, three hours; reading period, one hour. Prerequisite: upper division standing or consent of instructor. Examination of debate about environmental change and ability of the planet to maintain a growing population. Introduction and evaluation of basic demographic processes in context of food production, energy use, and environmental degradation. Discussion of major debates about use of resources in context of increasing population in developing countries and decreasing population in Western countries. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 111. Forest Ecosystems . (4)
Lecture, three hours; reading period, one hour; field trips. Prerequisites: course 2, Life Sciences 1 or equivalent. Limited to juniors/seniors. Evaluation of ecological principles as they apply to forests. Emphasis on constraints of physical environment, biotic interactions, succession, disturbances, and long-term environmental change. P/NP or letter grading

GEOG 124. Environmental Impact Analysis . (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: two environmental studies cluster courses. Requisite: course M40. Introduction to interdisciplinary analysis of local and regional impacts on environmental systems. Evaluation of state and federal concepts for analysis of environmental impact. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 125. Health and the Global Environment . (4)
Lecture, three hours; reading period, one hour. Impact of the environment and lifestyle on individual health examined from a geographical perspective, with examples from both developed and developing countries. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG M127. Soils and Environment. (5)
(Same as Environment M127 and Organismic Biology M127.) Lecture, five hours; discussion, one hour; field trips. Requisites: Chemistry 14A, 14B, and 14BL, or 20A, 20B, 20L, and 30AL. General treatment of soils and environmental implications: soil development, morphology, and worldwide distribution of soil orders; physical, chemical, hydrologic, and biological properties; water use, erosion, and pollution; management of soils as related to plant growth and distribution. Letter grading.

GEOG M128. Global Environment and Development: Problems and Issues. (4)
(Same as Urban Planning CM128.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 5. Designed for juniors/seniors. Questions of population, resource use, Third World poverty, and the environment. Analysis of global economic restructuring and its connections to changing organization of production and resulting environmental impacts. Examination of emergent local and regional coalitions for self-reliance and sustainable development. Case studies from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the U.S. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 129. Seminar: Environmental Studies. (4)
Seminar, three hours; reading period, two hours. Preparation: one course each from natural and human systems cores, three environmental studies cluster courses. Limited to seniors. Qualitative/quantitative analysis of problems associated with rational protection and use of selected environmental systems (urban, rural, forest, desert, coastal, water, soil, or others). P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 131. Environmental Change. (4)
Lecture, three hours; reading period, one hour. Limited to juniors/seniors. Examination of natural forces producing environmental changes over past two million years. How present landscape reflects past conditions. Effects of environmental change on people. Increasing importance of human activity in environmental modification. Focus on impact of natural and anthropogenic changes on forests. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 135. African Ecology and Development . (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for juniors/seniors. Overview of contemporary ecological and development issues in sub-Saharan Africa. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG M137. Historical Geography of American Environment. (4)
(Formerly numbered 137.) (Same as Environment M137.) Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Study of systematic changes of natural environment in the U.S. during historical time, with emphasis on interplay between and among natural factors of climate, soils, vegetation, and landforms, and human factors of settlement, economic activity, technology, and cultural traits. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 168. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. (4)
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Introduction to basic geographic information systems (GIS) concepts and spatial analysis. Data structures, topology, and attribute information. Laboratory exercises use database query, manipulation, and spatial analysis to address "real world" problems. P/NP or letter grading.

GEOG 170. Advanced Geographic Information Systems. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 168. Introduction to full geographic information systems (GIS) functionality, using ARC/INFO on UNIX workstations. Spatial manipulation, query, and computation of datasets carried out in project-oriented approach. P/NP or letter grading.

HISTORY [17]

HIST 99. Introduction to Historical Practice. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Discussion classes of no more than 15 students. Introduction to study of history, with emphasis on historical theory and research methods. P/NP or letter grading.

HIST 154C. History of American Architecture and Urban Planning, 1600 to 1890. (4)
Designed for juniors/seniors. Aspects of American cultural history as explored through architecture, urban planning, and allied arts, with emphasis on development of an architectural consciousness in America, ways in which the built environment has affected its users and observers, and extent to which it has reflected their values and ways of living.

HIST 154D. History of American Architecture and Urban Planning, 1890 to the Present . (4)
Designed for juniors/seniors. Aspects of American cultural history as explored through architecture, urban planning, and allied arts, with emphasis on development of an architectural consciousness in America, ways in which the built environment has affected its users and observers, and extent to which it has reflected their values and ways of living.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES [18]  

INTL DV 100A. Introduction to Development Studies: Economic Development and Culture Change. (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: some beginning experience in social sciences at college level. Designed for juniors/seniors. Analysis of determinants of underdevelopment, with focus on impact of colonialism, foreign investment, and trade, and on political economy. Letter grading.

INTL DV 100B. Introduction to Development Studies: Political Economy of Development. (4)
(Formerly numbered M100B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: some beginning experience in social sciences at college level. Designed for juniors/seniors. Analysis of determinants of underdevelopment, with focus on impact of colonialism, foreign investment, and trade, and on political economy. Letter grading.

INTL DV 197. Special Topics in International Development. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Preparation: some beginning experience in social sciences at college level. Lecture/seminar format on selected topics in international development. Course either features visiting instructors in field of development studies or allows program's affiliated faculty to engage specific contemporary issues. May be repeated for credit with topic change.

POLITICAL SCIENCE [19]

POL SCI 146E. Organization Theory, Public Policy, and Administration: National Policy Development and Implementation. (4)
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 40. Designed for juniors/seniors. Investigation of complex process of policy development and implementation in the U.S., including roles of federal, state, and local agencies as well as private organizations. Subsections offered on particular policy areas, with topics announced in preceding term. P/NP or letter grading.

POL SCI 146F. Organization Theory, Public Policy, and Administration: Politics, Ethics, and Business. (4)
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 40. Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of political issues, interests, and institutions that impose constraints on and provide opportunities for business. Ethical issues that arise in external environment of business and its internal operations. Examples of topics include government regulation, product liability, affirmative action, lobbying Congress, exporting hazardous waste to developing countries. P/NP or letter grading.

POL SCI M197G Political Economy of Development
Description not available.

SOCIOLOGY [14]

SOCIOL 31. Dilemmas of Third World Development . (4)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to understanding dilemmas of Third World social development and prospects for progress in the future.

SOCIOL 197D. Undergraduate Seminar . (5)
Seminar, three hours. Limited to junior/senior Sociology majors. P/NP or letter grading.

URBAN PLANNING [9]

URB PLN M190. Human Environment: Introduction to Architecture and Urban Planning. (4)
(Same as Architecture and Urban Design M190.) Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Kinds of problems that arise in creating and maintaining an environment for urban activities, and approaches and methods of architecture and urban planning in helping to cope with such problems. Complexities involved in giving expression to human needs and desires in provision of shelters and movement systems, to possibilities and limitations of technology and building forms, and to issues involved in relating the human-made to the natural environment. Students encouraged to comprehend major urban issues both as citizens and as potential technical experts.

 

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