BA Specialization in Urban Planning

Program Requirements

12	credits from Stage I: Specialization in Urban Planning
27	credits from Stage II: Specialization in Urban Planning
21	credits from Stage III: Specialization in Urban Planning

12	credits: • URBS 230 Urbanization: Global and Historical Perspectives (3.00) • URBS 240 Planning (3.00) • URBS 250 Representation Methods in Urban Studies (3.00) • URBS 260 Analytical Methods in Urban Studies (3.00)

credits:

• URBS 333 Urban Laboratory (6.00)

• URBS 335 Geographic Information Systems (3.00)

• URBS 362 Quantitative Research Methods (3.00)

• URBS 393 Law and Regulation in Urban Planning (3.00)

credits chosen from:

• ARTH 374 Architecture and Urbanism in Montreal (3.00)

• GEOG 330 Urban Geography (3.00)

• POLI 349 Political and Social Theory and the City (3.00)

• URBS 300 Neighbourhood and Community Planning (3.00)

• URBS 310 Urban Transportation (3.00)

• URBS 337 Urban Agriculture (3.00)

• URBS 338 Urban Ecology (3.00)

• URBS 370 Housing Policy (3.00)

• URBS 380 Urban and Regional Economic Development (3.00)

Note: A maximum of three credits may be chosen from ARTH 374 and POLI 349.

credits:

• URBS 433 Advanced Urban Laboratory (6.00)

credits chosen from:

• GEOG 463 Advanced Geographic Information Systems (3.00)

• GEOG 465 Remote Sensing (3.00)

• GEOG 466 Geomedia and the Geoweb (3.00)

• URBS 420 Social Geographies of Montreal (3.00)

• URBS 434 Transportation GIS (3.00)

• URBS 435 Transportation Impact Assessment (3.00)

• URBS 450 Economic Restructuring (3.00)

• URBS 460 Reading the Urban Form (3.00)

• URBS 470 Public Infrastructure Finance for Planners (3.00)

• URBS 480 Impact Assessment (3.00)

• URBS 481 Urban Planning in the Developing World (3.00)

• URBS 483 Directed Studies/Practicum in Urban Planning I (3.00)

• URBS 486 Behaviour and the Environment (3.00)

• URBS 488 Analyzing Choice (3.00)

• URBS 490 Public Space and the Public Interest (3.00)

• URBS 495 Field Research (3.00)

Note: A maximum of six credits may be chosen from: GEOG 463, GEOG 465, and GEOG 466.

Students enrolled in the Major in Urban Studies, or other undergraduate programs in Arts and Science, seeking to transfer to the BA Specialization in Urban Planning normally request a transfer at the end of their first year, after completing a minimum of nine URBS credits. A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 is required to transfer.