Urban and Regional Studies Minor

Catalog Year

2024-2025

Degree

Minor

Total Credits

18

Locations

Mankato

Career Cluster

Government and Public Administration

Program Requirements

Core

This course will identify and analyze global social, economic, political and environmental problems impacting community viability and explore the full range of solutions to these problems. The course will view communities as complex, sustainable organisms and bring together the works of the great minds working on sustainability.

Prerequisites: none

Goal Areas: GE-05, GE-10

Introduction to community leadership-elected, professional, or voluntary-and the skills and values which support it.

Prerequisites: none

Goal Areas: GE-09, GE-11

A basic working knowledge and vocabulary of urban design concepts and techniques in an applied problem solving context.

Prerequisites: none

Electives

Select 9 credits from URBS upper division courses, or see advisor for approval.