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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - URP6766
Tracking Number - 1636
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Approved, Permanent Archive - 2009-03-04
Campus: Tampa
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2007-09-05
- Department: Geography
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number: 122700
- Contact Person: Elizabeth Strom
- Phone: 43439
- Email: estrom@cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: URP
- Number: 6766
- Full Title: Research Methods for Urban & Regional Planning
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?: N
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Res Methods Urban Plan
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: none
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: The course is designed to introduce students to strategies for designing research and the appropriate methods for collecting urban and regional planning data; familiarize students with social research and evaluation methods used in planning.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Part of core requirements for new Urban and Regional Planning program. Familiarity with research, analysis and decision-making skills are fundamental to planning practice.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course will primarily serve students in the Urban and Regional Planning program. Beginning in Fall 2009, students enrolled in COBA’s Masters of Science in Real Estate will also be required to take this course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? no
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PhD or masters with extensive professional experience.
- Objectives: To develop research skills for planners through readings and hand-on exercises.
- Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, students would be armed with important research skills in areas such as the identification of appropriate data sources, sampling, data collection and related techniques and the use of computers and on-line research materials.
- Major Topics: Research design, sampling, surveying, use of data, decision-making.
- Textbooks: Ian Bracken, Urban Planning methods, Routledge 2007
Hermalata Dandekar, Planners' Use of Information. American Planning Association 2002
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.