50:975:102 Approaches to Urban Studies (R) (3) An introduction to basic approaches to the study, analysis, and resolution of urban problems, which are explored in their social, economic, political, and physical contexts. Examination of the development of a theoretical approach to contemporary urban studies. Serves as an introduction to further work in urban studies and community development.

50:975:103 Urban and Regional Ecological Planning (3) The network of interdependency and interaction between the human-made and the natural environments. The role of ecological planning in controlled growth and protecting the environment. Examination of environmental protection legislation on the federal, state, and local levels. Use of New Jersey case studies involving the Pinelands Commission and the Coastal Area Facilities Review Act.

50:975:104 Power and Decision Making in Urban Communities (R) (3) The theory and structure of the decision-making process in the urban community, with emphasis on the dynamics of the group as well as the systemic constraints bearing on the process. Formal and informal power structures in the urban community and their influence on the decision-making process. The power and functioning of group types and their relationship to the decision-making process. Topics include urban governing structures, corporatism, elitism, pluralism, public policy, and technology of power.

50:975:204 Poverty and Urban Environmental Systems (R) (D) (3) Problems of urban poverty in the context of income insufficiency and inequality in the American socioeconomic system. Factors contributing to urban poverty including population growth, technological change, racism, migration patterns, and subcultural conflicts. Lifestyles of the urban poor and institutional structures that handicap or aid them in escaping the poverty trap. The needs of the urban poor considered relative to present programs to eliminate poverty. Existing but unmet needs identified and possible solutions explored.

50:975:220 Civic Education and Community Service (3) Provides students with "hands-on" experience in voluntary community service. Minimum of five hours of community service per week and class attendance required.

50:975:231 Social Public Policy Planning (3) Analytic study of the development of social public policy planning in the United States. Development of theoretical models of interaction between social, political, and economic events, and the legislative and professional responses.

50:975:306 Basic Methods of Urban and Regional Planning (3) An introduction to the history and methodology of urban and regional planning. Covers legal aspects of planning in the United States and touches on planning abroad. Organization and operation of the planning function in local, state, and federal governments.

50:975:312 Urban and Regional Planning Studio (3) Intensive study of the problems and opportunities of a selected urban, rural, or suburban area. Focuses on development of physical action proposals resulting from an analysis of the total configuration of needs: fiscal, social, economic, and physical. Working in small teams, participants create a community development, rehabilitation, or conservation plan for their selected area.

50:975:315 Theory and Practice of Urban and Regional Planning (3) Review of modern land-use planning theories and techniques. Purpose and objectives of plans and planning. Comparative theories and approaches to planning. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status or permission of instructor.

50:975:319 Urban Health Care Systems and Human Needs (3) Examination of urban health care systems including consideration of such components as the structure and operations of local health departments, community and other institutional facilities, practitioner services, emerging forms of group practice, neighborhood health units, and other public and private systems serving the ghetto and other local urban communities. Major health needs which these services are designed to meet, existing gaps in provision of health care, and possible approaches to their solution. Includes field exploration of health services in the Camden community.

50:975:320 Energy and the Urban Environment (3) The role of different energy sources as bases of urban life and development. Future study perspectives presented and explored. Approaches to the resolution of ecological problems discussed, with emphasis on maintaining the city as a viable environment for human growth and development.

50:975:326 Planning and Administration of Municipal Services (3) The nature, objectives, and functioning of services customarily found in urban communities: municipal organizational structures; location of departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and other entities therein. Agency responsibilities, methods of operation, and limitations. Law enforcement, environmental protection, educational services, health services, welfare services, sanitation, and zoning; case studies in Camden and other South Jersey communities. Prerequisites: Junior or senior status and a good background in social science.

50:975:339 Housing and Planning Seminar (3) Analysis of the current housing situation in America, including the housing crisis, government and grassroots response, obstacles inhibiting housing construction, new technologies, and major housing problems and sponsorship. Technical aspects of housing problems and sponsorship. Housing situations in Camden and other South Jersey communities used for case studies. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status or permission of instructor.

50:975:405 Legal Foundations of Urban and Regional Planning (3) Development of the legal foundations for urban and regional planning. Zoning, subdivision, land tenure, eminent domain, growth controls, and agricultural land preservation used to illustrate principles of constitutional and administrative law, as well as the law of contracts, property, torts, and procedure. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status or permission of instructor.

50:975:413 Urban and Regional Revitalization (3) The range of strategies relevant to problems of urban fiscal and administrative stress. An assessment of their interrelationship and contributions to an overall revitalization policy. Examination of the privatization of inner-city redevelopment and its relationship to urban theory. Presentations by outside experts, agencies, interest groups, and professionals that have an impact on the formulation of urban public policy. Topics include emerging urban structures, gentrification, historic preservation, public-private ventures, local business development, and innovative financing.

50:975:421 Urban Studies Practicum I (3) Experiential learning in urban field placement related to academic study and preparation. Students may identify their preferred practicum agency from a list available in the department, or they may approach an agency themselves, with the counsel of faculty. Fieldwork is supervised at the agency level, and regular meetings are held with the faculty member directing the section. Prerequisites: Junior or senior status, two courses in the department, and permission of instructor.

50:975:422 Urban Studies Practicum II (3) A continuation of 50:975:421. Prerequisite: 50:975:421.

50:975:451 Community Leadership Training Seminar (3) The process of community development in a variety of settings. In a seminar environment that involves both cognitive study and experiential laboratory training, community development examined in the neighborhood, at work, at home, in religious life, and in schools and colleges. The seminar looks at its own group process in an effort to develop both awareness of, and competency in, its members' individual capacities for leadership in community building. Prerequisites: 50:975:220 or 221 and permission of instructor.

50:975:478 History of Planning Thought (3) Major ideas in urban and regional planning in history. A look at both utopian and practical concepts related to the built environment. The origin, growth, and impact of these ideas on the evolution of planning and urbanization in the context of broader social, intellectual, and technological changes. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status or permission of instructor.

50:975:487 Special Topics in Geographical Information Systems (3) Introduction to computer systems for the storage, management, analysis, and display of geographic data. Emphasis on applications relating to urban and environmental planning.

50:975:490,491,492,493 Special Topics in Urban Studies (3,3,3,3) The program offers, on an occasional basis, specialized courses such as Nonprofit Organizations: An International Perspective (joint with international studies).� Focuses on the role of communities troubled by conflict about ethnicity, identity, and religion.� Typically offered immediately after graduation day, the course involves field study with community organizations in the selected location.

50:975:498,499 Independent Study (BA,BA) Independent supervised study. Students arrange to work with individual faculty members to design and present a significant research project.