The Minor

The Sustainable Community Development Minor prepares students to create a more socially and environmentally balanced world through design and planning. Our courses provide both theoretical knowledge and professional skills in the cultural and ecological aspects of the built environment.

The undergraduate minor requires successful completion of any five courses (at least 3 credits each) selected from classes within the Sustainable Community Development curriculum.

No more than two courses used to fulfill the requirements of any major may be applied towards the fulfillment of the SCD minor.

The minor can be declared by completing the declaration form and emailing it to the program director.

Requirements

The minor requires 5 courses selected from core classes within the Sustainable Community Development curriculum. The five courses for the Sustainable Community Development minor can be selected from the following classes:

SUSTCOMM 110 Community Engagement/Transform Your World (fall semester)
SUSTCOMM 125 Global Cities & Global Issues (spring semester)
SUSTCOMM 140 Awareness of the Visual Environment (fall semester)
SUSTCOMM 197D Intro to Environmental Design (3 cr)
SUSTCOMM 205 Dynamics of Human Habitation (spring semester, summer online)
SUSTCOMM 232 History of Sustainable Community Development (spring semester) (4 cr)
SUSTCOMM 297G Climate Change and Resilient Cities (4 cr)
SUSTCOMM 297L Visual Communication: Design Principles and Digital Skills (3 cr)
SUSTCOMM 314 Writing in Community Development and Landscape Architecture (3 cr)
SUSTCOMM 333 Introduction to Community Economic Development (4 cr)
SUSTCOMM 335 Plants in the Landscape (3 cr)
SUSTCOMM 394RI Research Issues in Community Development (3 cr)
SUSTCOMM 397P Planning Tools & Techniques (3 cr)
SUSTCOMM 543 Landscape Architecture History I (fall semester)
SUSTCOMM 544 Landscape Architecture History II (spring semester)
SUSTCOMM 574 City Planning (fall semester)
SUSTCOMM 597A Digital Technology for Design Representation (3 cr)
REGIONPL 545 Intro to Land Use (3 cr)
REGIONPL 577 Urban Policies (3 cr)
REGIONPL 580 Sustainable Cities (3 cr)
REGIONPL 585 Planning for Climate Change (3/4 cr)
LANDARCH 294A Construction Materials (3 cr)
LANDARCH 297A Fundamentals of Design-Studio I (3 cr)
LANDARCH 297M Business Concepts of Landscape Contracting (3 cr)
LANDARCH 547 +547L Landscape Pattern and Process with Lab (fall semester)
LANDARCH 582 Landscape Green Urbanism (3 cr)
LANDARCH 587 People and the Environment (3 cr)
LANDARCH 591G Urban Greening Theory and Practice (3 cr)
LANDARCH 591I Green Infrastructure (3 cr)
LANDARCH 592M Material Experiments (3 cr)

Other coursework with SUSTCOMM, LANDARCH or REGIONPL designation may be counted toward minor with prior departmental approval.

All coursework for the minor must be completed with a grade of C- or better.