PLAN Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
11452	PLAN 89 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Special Topics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Ashley Hernandez	Dey Hall-Rm 0209	Seats filled	Seats filled	18/18
Description: Special topics course. Content will vary each semester. 3 units.
11440	PLAN 101 - 001 Cities and Urban Life	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Justin Nolan	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0222	33/35	Seats filled	33/35	0/999
Description: This course will introduce students to the topic of cities and urban life. Over 80% of the United States' population lives in cities or their suburbs, and over half of the world's population lives in urban areas. Studying cities and urban life is important to understanding how human societies have developed, how our households live and function, how our economies grow and innovate, how our culture develops and influences, and an array of other topics. 3 units.
3229	PLAN 246 - 001 Cities of the Past, Present, and Future: Introduction to Planning	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Tab Combs	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0101	52/100	Seats filled	52/100	0/999
Description: Introduction to the evolution of cities in history, to the concept of urban morphology or form, and to the different elements or subsystems of the urban system and how they have changed over time. 3 units.
9466	PLAN 363 - 001 Personal Finance, Wealth Building, and Public Policy	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Meetra Najrabi	Gardner Hall-Rm 0008	95/100	Seats filled	95/100	0/999
Description: This course examines the skills to make important financial decisions such as buying a car, a house, paying for college, and managing credit and debt. Students will also learn about the fundamentals of investment and retirement planning to prepare them for a lifetime of wealth building. Finally, students will learn about public policy initiatives aimed at increasing the wealth building opportunities of low-income and minority households and communities. 3 units.
13929	PLAN 363 - 002 Personal Finance, Wealth Building, and Public Policy	MoWe 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Meetra Najrabi	Fetzer Hall-Rm 0109	36/100	Seats filled	36/100	0/999
Description: This course examines the skills to make important financial decisions such as buying a car, a house, paying for college, and managing credit and debt. Students will also learn about the fundamentals of investment and retirement planning to prepare them for a lifetime of wealth building. Finally, students will learn about public policy initiatives aimed at increasing the wealth building opportunities of low-income and minority households and communities. 3 units.
13930	PLAN 363 - 003 Personal Finance, Wealth Building, and Public Policy	MoWe 5:05PM - 6:20PM	Meetra Najrabi	Gardner Hall-Rm 0008	66/100	Seats filled	66/100	0/999
Description: This course examines the skills to make important financial decisions such as buying a car, a house, paying for college, and managing credit and debt. Students will also learn about the fundamentals of investment and retirement planning to prepare them for a lifetime of wealth building. Finally, students will learn about public policy initiatives aimed at increasing the wealth building opportunities of low-income and minority households and communities. 3 units.
14108	PLAN 364 - 001 Personal Finance II: Investing and Public Policy	MoWe 4:40PM - 5:55PM	Roberto Quercia	Chapman Hall-Rm 0201	49/100	Seats filled	49/100	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, PLAN 363 is recommended but not required. The purpose of the course is to help students understand the principles that lead to successful investing. The course emphasizes the importance of grounding the application of these principles on the students' values. More narrowly, the course discusses stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other types of investments. Finally, the course identifies the way public policy interacts and impacts our investment decisions. 3 units.
15127	PLAN 372 - 001 Introduction to Urban Data Analytics	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	Ahmed Rachid El-khattabi	Dey Hall-Rm 0303	21/25	Seats filled	21/25	0/999
Description: This course introduces the techniques and tools used to assemble, manage, and analyze many types of data used to support decision-making in urban environments. Students will learn to work with messy and incomplete datasets, an important part of the course will be learning to clean and analyze imperfect data. The goal of this course is to prepare students to apply urban data analytics in practice. 3 units.
13941	PLAN 390 - 001 Undergraduate Special Topics in Urban and Regional Studies	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Alanna Coombes	Wilson Hall-Rm 0217	16/35	Seats filled	16/35	0/999
Description: This course examines selected urban and regional issues under guidance of a member of the faculty. 1 - 3 units.
13942	PLAN 390 - 002 Undergraduate Special Topics in Urban and Regional Studies	MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Alanna Coombes	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0222	7/35	Seats filled	7/35	0/999
Description: This course examines selected urban and regional issues under guidance of a member of the faculty. 1 - 3 units.
3561	PLAN 420 - 001 Community Design and Green Architecture	We 4:45PM - 7:17PM	Eric Thomas	Dey Hall-Rm 0404	Seats filled	Seats filled	22/22	0/999
Description: The impact of building on the environment and health will be examined by looking at the major areas of: land use planning, water resource use, energy, materials and indoor environment. 3 units.
3223	PLAN 491 - 001 Introduction to GIS	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Julia Cardwell, Carl Jurkowski	Carolina Hall-Rm 0220	Seats filled	Seats filled	5/5	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, GEOG 370; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Stresses the spatial analysis and modeling capabilities of organizing data within a geographic information system. (GISci) 3 units.
3225	PLAN 491 - 601 Introduction to GIS	Mo 3:35PM - 4:25PM	Carl Jurkowski, Julia Cardwell	Carolina Hall-Rm 0322	Seats filled	Seats filled	2/2	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, GEOG 370; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Stresses the spatial analysis and modeling capabilities of organizing data within a geographic information system. (GISci) 0 units.
3226	PLAN 491 - 602 Introduction to GIS	We 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Carl Jurkowski, Julia Cardwell	Carolina Hall-Rm 0322	Seats filled	Seats filled	3/3	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, GEOG 370; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Stresses the spatial analysis and modeling capabilities of organizing data within a geographic information system. (GISci) 0 units.
13944	PLAN 554 - 001 Planning in Practice Speaker Series	Tu 12:30PM - 1:30PM	Sandra Lazo de la Vega	TBA	17/40	Seats filled	17/40	0/999
Description: This course is an introduction to the work of Urban Planning in practice. This course is designed to expose students to contemporary issues in planning practice and the variety of ways a career in urban planning can develop. Students will hear from practicing planners throughout this course. Guest speakers will discuss a project they have worked on, or the ways in which their professional career in planning has developed. 1.5 units.
12339	PLAN 576 - 001 Urbanism in the Global South	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	Shakirah Hudani	Carolina Hall-Rm 0104	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	0/999
Description: This course introduces concepts and themes on the development of urbanism in the "Global South". Students engage with current debates over urbanism in the Global South, including looking at urban inequalities in contemporary cities. Through the course, students will be able to compare and critically analyze formations of contemporary urbanism in selected cities in the Global South from a comparative perspective. 3 units.
11442	PLAN 590 - 001 Special Topics Seminar	Fr 1:35PM - 4:35PM	Frank Muraca	New East-Rm 0102	16/22	Seats filled	16/22	0/999
Description: Original research, fieldwork, readings, or discussion of selected planning issues under guidance of a member of the faculty. 1 - 9 units.
15004	PLAN 590 - 002 Special Topics Seminar	Tu 3:30PM - 6:00PM	Shlomit Flint Ashery	New East-Rm 0102	1/22	Seats filled	1/22	0/999
Description: Original research, fieldwork, readings, or discussion of selected planning issues under guidance of a member of the faculty. 1 - 9 units.
10921	PLAN 590 - 004 Special Topics Seminar	Th 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Sandra Lazo de la Vega	New East-Rm 0101	8/16	Seats filled	8/16	0/999
Description: Original research, fieldwork, readings, or discussion of selected planning issues under guidance of a member of the faculty. 1 - 9 units.
13945	PLAN 634 - 001 International Transportation Planning	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Allie Thomas	New East-Rm 0201	11/18	Seats filled	11/18	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to international transportation planning, taking into consideration history, governance, finance, and operations. Transportation planning as a field is highly diverse. How transportation engineers and planners think about moving goods and people differs across the globe. This course sets out to expose you to how the transportation planning practice differs across the world by looking at best practices such as bus rapid transit, people-oriented street design, congestion pricing--to name a few. 3 units.
9743	PLAN 635 - 001 Energy Modeling for Environment and Public Health	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Noah Kittner	Stone Center-Rm 0210	6/10	Seats filled	6/10	0/999
Description: Recommended preparation, MATH 231. This course will equip students with an overview of contemporary issues in energy modeling and energy systems analysis, with a focus on environmental and public health impacts of energy systems. Students will gain exposure to a variety of research methodologies, analytical tools, and applications of energy modeling applied to environmental and public health related problems such as climate change, air pollution, and water footprints of energy systems. 3 units.
13964	PLAN 637 - 001 Public Transportation	MoWe 5:05PM - 6:20PM	Matthew Palm	Gardner Hall-Rm 0007	25/40	Seats filled	25/40	0/999
Description: Alternative public urban transportation systems including mass transit, innovative transit services, and paratransit, examined from economic, land use, social, technical, and policy perspectives. 3 units.
8624	PLAN 639 - 001 Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Tab Combs	Phillips Hall-Rm 0385	22/40	Seats filled	22/40	0/999
Description: This course will interrogate the role of streets in communities paying particular attention to how streets contribute to mobility, accessibility, economic vibrancy, social cohesion, and safety from crime and traffic danger. We will consider how different people are affected by streets and transport policy. 3 units.
10381	PLAN 656 - 001 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Miyuki Hino	Dey Hall-Rm 0307	30/40	Seats filled	30/40	0/999
Description: An introduction to climate change impacts and adaptation for undergraduate juniors and seniors and graduate students. The focus of this course is understanding how social and environmental systems interact to create risk and damage. This course prepares students to design and implement adaptation strategies for organizations of all types, from businesses to government agencies. Students will learn to integrate information about climate hazards, natural systems, built infrastructure, and socioeconomic systems. Previously offered as PLAN 756. Restricted to juniors, seniors, and graduate students only. 3 units.
10748	PLAN 663 - 001 Diversity and Inequality in Cities	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Ashley Hernandez	Gardner Hall-Rm 0007	5/40	Seats filled	5/40	0/999
Description: Permission of instructor needed for undergraduates. Introduces students in planning to issues related to diversity and inequality. Different aspects of diversity (e.g., gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality/citizenship) will be explored. Examines the relationship between diversity and the unequal distribution of resources and life trajectories. 3 units.
14323	PLAN 671 - 001 Development Planning Techniques	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Sara Nienow	New East-Rm 0102	15/18	Seats filled	15/18	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, Preparation in basic statistical methods demonstrated through successful completion of PLAN 720, ECON 400, BIOS 600, ENEC 562, STOR 155, PLCY 460 or equivalent. Intermediate and advanced techniques for analyzing the development of local and regional economies. Social accounts, indicator construction, regional input-output models, economic and fiscal impact analysis, labor market analysis, and regional economic forecasting techniques. Previously offered as PLAN 771. 3 units.
5283	PLAN 685 - 001 Water and Sanitation Planning and Policy in Less Developed Countries	Fr 9:05AM - 11:45AM	DALE WHITTINGTON	Peabody Hall-Rm 2080	2/15	Seats filled	2/15	0/999
Description: Permission of the instructor. Seminar on policy and planning approaches for providing improved community water and sanitation services in developed countries. Topics include the choice of appropriate technology and level of service, pricing, metering, and connection charges; cost recovery and targeting subsidies to the poor; water venting; community participation in the management and operation of water systems; and rent-seeking behavior in the provision of water supplies. 3 units.
15256	PLAN 702 - 001 Master's Project Proposal Development	Tu 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Matthew Palm, Ashley Hernandez	Hanes Hall-Rm 0107	22/40	Seats filled	22/40	0/999
Description: This seminar-based course will provide guidance to master's students as they begin work on their MP proposals. Students will be exposed to a variety of University resources, learn how to design and write independent research, and receive feedback on their ideas and project proposals. The course will combine visits from guest speakers, lectures, and breakout sessions. 1.5 units.
13973	PLAN 720 - 002 Planning Methods	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Matthew Bhagat-Conway	Gardner Hall-Rm 0210	44/50	Seats filled	44/50	0/999
Description: This course introduces a broad variety of methodological approaches, both qualitative and quantitative. The first part of the course will focus on methods broadly applicable to the social sciences, and the latter part of the course will cover planning-specific methods. Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. 3 units.
4875	PLAN 724 - 001 Introduction to Law for Planners	MoWe 12:20PM - 1:35PM	LeAnn Brown	Woollen Gym-Rm 0304	45/50	Seats filled	45/50	0/999
Description: Governmental institutions, real property, constitutional law, land use law, and environmental law. 3 units.
15121	PLAN 730 - 001 Data Collection Methods	Tu 2:00PM - 4:45PM	DOUGLAS CURRIVAN	TBA	Seats filled	Seats filled	5/5	0/999
Description: Reviews alternative data collection techniques used in surveys, concentrating on the impact these techniques have on the quality of survey data. Topics covered include errors associated with nonresponse, interviewing, and data processing. 3 units.
8815	PLAN 731 - 001 Questionnaire Design	Fr 1:00PM - 3:30PM	Emily Geisen, EMILIA PEYTCHEVA	TBA	Seats filled	Seats filled	5/5	0/999
Description: Examines the stages of questionnaire design including developmental interviewing, question writing, question evaluation, pretesting, questionnaire ordering, and formatting. Reviews the literature on questionnaire construction. Provides hands-on experience in developing questionnaires. 3 units.
5105	PLAN 735 - 001 Community Revitalization Applied	Th 2:00PM - 4:45PM	Tyler Mulligan	Knapp-Sanders Bldg-Rm 3301	Seats filled	Seats filled	6/6	0/999
Description: Students apply their skills in business, planning, or public administration to actual community revitalization projects in North Carolina communities. Projects require an understanding of community development methods, the real estate development process, and public-private partnerships. Students will manage client relationships and learn how their skills contribute to solving community challenges. This course is ideal for first year graduate students. 4.5 units.
4203	PLAN 738 - 001 Transportation Policy and Planning	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Allie Thomas	Murphey Hall-Rm 0204	20/21	Seats filled	20/21	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, PLAN 636; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Examination of active transportation planning and policy questions: land use relationships, modal comparisons, environmental quality, transportation demand management, paratransit planning, the transportation needs of special populations, and international comparisons. 3 units.
14023	PLAN 739 - 001 Transportation Planning Models	Th 5:00PM - 8:00PM	Matthew Bhagat-Conway	New East-Rm 0102	12/22	Seats filled	12/22	0/999
Description: Permission of the instructor for undergraduates. The transportation planning process; data collection, trip generation, modal choice, trip distribution and assignment. Social, economic, and environmental impacts of transportation. Innovative modeling techniques. 3 units.
1623	PLAN 741 - 001 Land Use and Environmental Planning	MoWe 2:30PM - 3:45PM	Roger Waldon	Kenan Labs-Rm B121	15/35	Seats filled	15/35	0/999
Description: Methods of land use planmaking. Use of GIS and spreadsheets to analyze land suitability and spatial needs. Preparation of land classification plans, land use design plans, and development management programs. 3 units.
11449	PLAN 745 - 001 Development Impact Assessment	MoWe 8:40AM - 9:55AM	Todd BenDor	New East-Rm 0301	15/22	Seats filled	15/22	0/999
Description: Methods for data management and predictive analysis of the environmental, transportation, and other infrastructure; fiscal and social impacts of land development projects. Impact mitigation measures are also examined. 3 units.
11450	PLAN 752 - 001 Project and Site Planning	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:25AM	ANDREW WHITTEMORE	Alumni Bldg-Rm 0203	22/26	Seats filled	22/26	0/999
Description: Techniques of site analysis, project programming, and arrangement of structures on the land. Workshop covering design and review of urban development projects within limitations of regulatory standards and market criteria. 3 units.
3925	PLAN 754 - 001 Natural Hazards Resilience Speaker Series	Tu 5:00PM - 6:00PM	Anna Schwab, Rick Luettich	TBA	17/40	Seats filled	17/40	0/999
Description: Invited practitioners and scholars will discuss a range of pertinent topics, including research findings and experience in practice tied to disaster management and climate change adaptation. Speakers will include a range of officials, scholars, private sector representatives, media members, politicians, advocates, community leaders, and members of various professional associations. 1 units.
8942	PLAN 757 - 001 Planning for Historical Preservation	Th 5:00PM - 7:30PM	Andrew Stewart	New East-Rm 0301	1/18	Seats filled	1/18	0/999
Description: Concepts, processes, and policies for historic preservation; its role in the community planning and development process. 3 units.
13977	PLAN 760 - 001 Real Estate Investment and Affordable Housing	MoWe 2:30PM - 3:45PM	Roberto Quercia	Peabody Hall-Rm 2060	31/34	Seats filled	31/34	0/999
Description: Fundamentals and techniques of real estate investment analysis, including cases and computer modeling; applications of the public interest in private investment decisions; tax and other public policies influencing real estate investments; and affordable housing. 3 units.
5093	PLAN 787 - 001 Applied Environmental Finance: How to Pay for Environmental Services	MoWe 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Austin Thompson-Spain	Knapp-Sanders Bldg-Rm 1300	1/5	Seats filled	1/5	0/999
Description: How can governments, communities, organizations, and businesses fund environmental services? This applied course reviews the diverse tools and strategies that environmental service providers use to pay for programs. The course will focus on environmental services related to: drinking water, wastewater, storm-water, watershed protection, energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainability, and wetlands. 3 units.
1624	PLAN 823 - 001 Planning Workshop	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Matthew Palm	Wilson Hall-Rm 0217	10/35	Seats filled	10/35	0/999
Description: Problem-solving, client-based courses designed to give students experience in applying planning theory and methods to actual problem situations in economic development, housing and community development, real estate, environmental planning, and land use and transportation. 3 units.