For an up-to-date description of environmental planning major requirements, courses, and course sequences, please refer to the program webpage at https://landarch.rutgers.edu/ep-course-sequence.html.
SEBS UNDERGRADUATE CORE CURRICULUM (39 credits)
Contemporary Challenges (6 credits) Two courses, one in each of the Contemporary Challenges areas: Diversities and Social Inequalities [CC-D] and Our Common Future [CC-O]
Experiential Learning (3 credits) Students must participate in a certified experience that meets this goal [EL]
Natural Sciences (6 credits) Students must take two courses, one each in two of the following areas: physical, biological, or environmental sciences [NS]
Historical Analysis (3 credits) Students must take one course [HST]
Social Analysis (6 credits) SEBS students must complete two courses, one in either social/cultural analysis or economic analysis, and one in governmental and regulatory analysis [SCL]
Arts and Humanities (3 credits) Students must complete one course [AH]
Writing and Communication (6 credits) Students must take 01:355:101 or its equivalent [WC] and one course that fulfills the learning goal, communicate effectively in modes appropriate to a discipline or area of inquiry [WCD].
Quantitative and Formal Reasoning (6 credits) Students must take two courses [QQ; QR]
Graduation Requirements: Major in Environmental Planning (573)
The environmental planning curriculum provides a broad educational experience emphasizing an understanding of planning and management of the physical and cultural environments. The program strives to consider our relationship with the land, in an effort to foster ethical planning solutions. A program that that promotes sustainability regardless of location, strives for social equity and envisions a post-industrial landscape that provides ecological services.
Course Number
| Credits
| Name
| SEBS
|
Requirement I
| 9
| Physical Sciences
| Core
|
01:119:103
| 3
| Principles Biology
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Plus 3 credits from:
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01:450:101
| 3
| Earth Systems or
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01:460:100
| 3
| Planet Earth or
| NS
|
11:776:102
| 3
| Soil and Society
|
|
Plus 3 credits from:
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|
|
|
11:670:102
| 3
| Intro. Climate Science or
|
|
11:670:101
| 3
| Intro. Meteorology
|
|
Requirement II
| 4
| Quantitative Methods
|
|
01:640:115
| 4
| Pre-calculus College Math
|
|
01:640:111
| 2
| Pre-calculus I plus
| QQ
|
01:640:112
| 2
| Pre-calculus II
|
|
Requirement III
| 34
| Environmental Planning Core
|
|
11:573:202
| 3
| Environmental Issues
|
|
11:573:231
| 3
| Fundamentals of Environmental Planning
|
|
11:550:231
| 5
| Intro. Environmental Design
|
|
11:573:232
| 3
| Fundamentals of Environmental Geomatics
|
|
11:573:233
| 1
| Fundamentals of Environmental Geomatics Laboratory
|
|
11:550:237
| 3
| Visualization I-Drawing and Drafting
|
|
11:573:413
| 3
| Open Space Planning and Management
|
|
11:550:241
| 4
| Construction I: Mapping and Engineering
|
|
Plus 5-6 credits from:
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|
|
|
11:573:232
| 3
| Intro. Geomatics
|
|
11:372:462
| 3
| Adv. Geomatics
|
|
11:573:409
| 3
| Challenges and Opportunities
|
|
11:550:301
| 3
| Social and Cultural Aspects of Design
| EBE
|
11:550:331
| 5
| Environmental Planning Studio
|
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Plus 3 credits from:
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|
|
11:550:442
| 3
| Planting Design
|
|
11:373:202
| 3
| Sustainability Decision Tools
|
|
11:216:101
| 3
| Intro. Ecology
|
|
Requirement IV
| 9
| Environmental Sequence
|
|
3 credits from:
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|
|
11:375:360
| 4
| Soils and Water
|
|
11:776:440
| 3
| Soil Fertility
|
|
11:776:102
| 3
| Soils and Society
|
|
Plus 3 credits from:
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|
|
|
11:216:272
| 4
| Dendrology
|
|
11:550:233
| 3
| Landscape Plants I
|
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Plus 3 credits from:
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|
|
|
11:375:101
| 3
| Intro. Environmental Science
|
|
11:573:445
| 3
| Ecological Design and Stewardship
|
|
11:216:332
| 3
| Plant Ecology
|
|
11:216:351
| 3
| Principles of Ecology
|
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Requirement V
| 6
| History/Theory Sequence
|
|
11:550:230
| 3
| Environmental Design Analysis
|
|
11:550:250
| 3
| History of Landscape Architecture
| AH/CC
|
11:573:302
| 3
| Ecological History of North America
|
|
Requirement VI
| 9
| Planning Electives
|
|
3 credits from:
|
|
|
|
11:375:202
| 3
| Water and Wastewater Treatment
|
|
11:375:307
| 3
| Solid Waste Management and Treatment
|
|
10:762:335
| 3
| Gender, Family, and Public Policy
|
|
10:762/832/971:202
| 3
| Designing Healthy Cities (studio format)
|
|
11:373:362
| 3
| Natural Resource Economics
|
|
11:373:363
| 3
| Environmental Economics
|
|
11:573:437
| 3
| Sustainability Decision Tools
|
|
Plus 3 credits from:
|
|
|
|
11:573:444
| 3
| Watershed Planning and Management
|
|
10:762:233
| 3
| Urban World
|
|
10:762/833/843:210
| 3
| Principles of Public Policy
|
|
10:762/971:201, 10:762:306
| 3
| Intro. Urban Planning and Design
|
|
10:762:413
| 3
| Urban Revitalization
|
|
Plus 3 credits from:
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|
|
11:550:332
| 5
| Praxis Studio I (Junior) Section CD
| EBE
|
11:550:332
| 5
| Praxis Studio I (Junior) Section EC
| EBE
|
11:550:332
| 5
| Praxis Studio I (Junior) Section OD
| EBE
|
11:550:234
| 3
| Landscape Plants II
|
|
11:550:235
| 3
| Herbaceous Plants in the Landscape
|
|
11:573:437
| 3
| Spatial Data Visualization
|
|
16:550:545
| 3
| Intro. Geomatics
|
|
11:216:474
| 3
| Adv. Geomatics
|
|
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|
|
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TOTAL
| 71
|
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Cannot use planning electives twice within the major.
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List of suggested but not required certificates/minors and required number of credits:
Certificate Programs:
Environmental Geomatics (19)
Minor Programs:
Agroecology (21-24)
Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources (20-23)
Environmental and Business Economics (21-23)
Entomology (19-26)
Environmental Policy, Institutions, and Behavior (21)
Environmental Sciences (21)
Marine Sciences (18)
Meteorology (18)
Plant Science (18-20)
Urban Forestry (21)
