Environmental Planning Minor

ENVD Planning Minor

Consider complimenting your major with knowledge and skills in sustainability, urban planning and landscape design.

Learn what it takes to facilitate the decision-making to carry out urban planning, urban design, land development and natural resource conservation with consideration of environmental, social, political and babyÖ±²¥app factors.

Declaring an ENVD Minor

In order to declare the Environmental Planning Minor or to discuss the program, please email Nate Jones, assistant director of advising & professional development, nathan.p.jones@colorado.edu to schedule a meeting. 

Audience

The audience for the planning minor is very broad and, overall, tends to grab the interests of students in the following majors:

  • Environmental Studies: Students interested in environmental planning
  • Political Science/Pre-Law: Students interested in working within governing institutions who make decisions
  • Business/Economics: Students interested in planning and the private sector
  • Sociology/Anthropology: Students interested in the use of property and space and impact on communities that inhabit them
  • Geography: Students interested in a professionally-driven implementation of urban geography

Minor Requirements

Complete a minimum of 18 credits in environmental planning-related courses. Of the 18 credits, nine must be taught in environmental design. 

Minor Curriculum

Theory and history (3 credits)

PLAN 2004 - History & Theory of Sustainable Planning and Design (3)
LAND 2004 - History of Landscape Architecture (3)
PLAN 3005 - Process and Practices (3)
LAND 4114 - Landscape Architecture Theory (3)

Technology requirement (3 credits)

GEOG 4603 - GIS in the Social and Natural Sciences (maymester only)
GEOG 3053 - Graphic Information Science: Mapping (4)

Environmental planning electives (6 credits)

Pick two electives from a list of suggested courses. It may be either an ENVD or non-ENVD upper-division course related to environmental planning. For courses not listed below, please consult with your advisor. 

PLAN 3005 – Process and Practice
PLAN 3102 â€“ Strategies & Techniques for Sustainable Planning and Design
PLAN 4101 – Sustainable Futures Planning
ENVD 4361 – Inclusive Community Design
ENVD 4363 – Urban Transportation Planning
ENVD 4363 – Designing & Planning for Natural Areas
ENVD 4764 – Sustainability and Feng-shui
ENVD 4311 – Housing Policies and Practices
LAND 3103 – Planting Design and Ecology
LAND 4114 – Landscape Architecture Theory
ENVD 4363 – Sketching DSGN Visualization
GEOG 3612 – Geography of American Cities
GEOG 4772 – The Geography of Food and Agriculture
EBIO 3590 – Plants and Society
EBIO 4060 – Landscape Ecology
EBIO 3040 – Conservation Biology
Environmental planning capstone (6 credits)

PLAN 4100 - Capstone in Planning and Urban Design (6) 

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