Spring 2009 Undergraduate Courses

UAP 1024: Urban Public Issues (CRN 15374)

Meets: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11:15 am - 12:05 pm in Hold AU at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: DL Zahm

This class introduces some of the most vital concerns and issues challenging democratic capitalistic urban societies today. Topics addressed include different perspectives on the causes and portent of the urban underclass, the growing inequality between the educated and less well educated in the nation's labor markets, the causes of the marked resegregation of many of the nation's urban centers by race and income and the implications of privatization and interjurisdictional competition for the public policy behavior and outcomes of subnational governments.

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UAP 2014: Urbanization & Development (CRN 15375)

Meets: Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm in MCB 307 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: Sonia Hirt

Relationships between urbanization and economic development; role of cities in social, political, cultural, and economic development of societies; cities as settings for innovation and change.

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UAP 3014: Urban Policy and Planning (CRN 15376)

Meets: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10:10 am - 11:00 am in MCB 329 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: CT Koebel

An introduction to urban policy and urban planning. Includes analysis of the basic concepts and principles of urban policy, a review of urban policy in the United States, discussion of the development of urban planning and its role in shaping the urban environment, and an analysis of the relationship between public policy and planning and the organization and structure of the urban environment. Must complete prerequisite UAP 1024 with a B- grade or higher.

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UAP 3224: Policy Implementation (CRN 15377)

Meets: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11:15 am - 12:05 pm in MCB 202 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: MR Potter

Systematic analysis of the field and practice of public policy implementation. Includes analysis of the structure and dynamics of the policy process as well as specific analytic approaches to understanding policy implementation. Includes analysis of intra-organizational, interorganizational and intergovernmental implementation processes. Must complete prerequisites UAP 3014 and UAP 3024 with B- grade or higher.

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UAP 3264: Contemporary Urban Issues (CRN 17306)

Meets: Mondays, 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm in AA 114 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: RE Lang

Consideration of one particular issue of immediate importance to the contemporary urban environment. Topics emphasize major social or economic policy issues, and may change each year. Junior standing required.

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UAP 3344: Global Environ Issues (CRN 15378)

Meets: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm in LITRV 1870 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: RC Rich

Critical examination of major global environmental problems (e.g., global warming, atmospheric ozone depletion, acid rain, tropical deforestation, toxic waste) with emphasis on their social, economic, political, ethical, and policy implications and solutions. Completion of Area 4 of University Core required. II

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UAP 3354: Environ Policy & Plan (CRN 15379)

Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:00 am - 9:15 am in AA 7 MCB 307 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: DR Pitt

Introduction to the interdisciplinary principles of environmental policy, planning, economics, and ethics to address pollution abatement, resources conservation, habitat protection, and environmental restoration. The course will focus on practical means of identifying environmental problems and creatively solving them. I,II

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UAP 3444: Administrative Law and Policy (CRN 15380)

Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am - 12:15 am in MCB 230 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: BS Faulkner

The legal context of the exercise of discretion by public administrators in the United States. Adjudication and rule- making; access to administrative processes and information; legislative and judicial control of administration.

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UAP 4184: Community Involvement (CRN 15382)

Meets: Mondays, 4:00 pm - 6:50 pm in WMS 220 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: MH Schnitzer

Issues, concepts, and techniques of citizen participation in community development. Institutional frameworks and their historical precedents. Exercises developing group communications skills, public meeting facilitation, and design of community involvement programs.

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UAP 4214: Women, Environ & Development (CRN 15383)

Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm in AA 111 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: WA Dunaway

Explores intersecting roles of gender, culture, and socio-economic status in people's use of nature, management of environmental resources, and experiences of environmental change. Examines debates on environmental and development initiatives, environmental ethics, and environmental social movements from feminist perspectives. II

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UAP 4264: Environmental Ethics (CRN 15384)

Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 am - 10:45 am in AA 114 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: JO Browder

Issues in applied environmental ethics. Contributions of diverse religious and philosophical traditions to contemporary perspectives on the human-nature relationship. Examination of environmental policies from utilitarian economic, deep ecology, and ecofeminist perspectives. Junior, senior or graduate standing required. II

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UAP 4364: Environ Policy Sem (CRN 15385)

Meets: Wednesdays, 4:00 pm - 6:50 pm in MCB 318 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 2
Instructor: DL Zahm

Critical examination of the social, political, economic, legal, scientific, and technological contexts underlying processes of environmental change, problems, and solutions, as seen from various conceptual and disciplinary perspectives. Senior status required and 9 credit hours, 3000-level or above, in the Environmental Policy and Planning major or minor. I,II

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UAP 4394: Renewable Energy Syst (CRN 15386)

Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm in AA 7 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: J Randolph

Examines the relationship between the real estate market and urban development. Focuses on the private sector real estate market and how it responds to and shapes urban policy and urban planning practices.

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UAP 4744: Principles of Real Estate (CRN 15387)

Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm in LITRV 1670 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 4
Instructor: JJ Richardson

Examines the relationship between the real estate market and urban development. Focuses on the private sector real estate market and how it responds to and shapes urban policy and urban planning practices.

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UAP 4754: Legal Foundations of Planning (CRN 15388)

Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:00 am - 9:15 am in SURGE 107 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: M McMahon

Examination of the legal context in which urban planning and public policy operate. Legal structure, role of law, powers of sovereign governments, constitutional limitations on government activities, and public-private conflict and their influence on planning and public policy are examined.

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UAP 4914: Public & Urban Seminar (CRN 15389)

Meets: Wednesdays, 4:00 pm - 6:50 pm in MCB 318 at the Blacksburg Campus.

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: DL Zahm

This capstone seminar explores the central questions of the role of the citizen and the citizenry in democratic capitalistic urban societies as well as the nature of accountability in such regimes. Topics such as the processes by which representation occurs, alternate theories of democratic community and the relationship of the public, private and civil sectors in urban society are treated. Senior status in PUA required. PUA majors and minors must complete this course with a C grade or higher to graduate; otherwise course must be repeated.

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