Community Development Concentrations

All Community Development students must select one of the following concentrations:

Community Organization and Change
Housing and Economic Development
Communications and Community Development

Community Organization and Change

Required (23 credits)

• USP 311 Introduction to Urban Planning (4 cr)
• USP 426 Neighborhood Conservation and Change (4 cr)
• USP 428 Concepts of Community Development (4 cr)
• USP 429 Poverty in the Urban Community (3 cr)
• USP 430 Urban Studies Research Methods (4 cr)
• USP 450 Concepts of Citizen Participation (4 cr)

Choose 4 courses from among the following:

• USP 312 Urban Housing and Development (4 cr)
• USP 313 Urban Planning: Environmental Issues (4 cr)
• USP 385 History of American Cities (4 cr)
• USP 410 Native Amercian Planning Issues (3cr)
• USP 424 Healthy Communities (4 cr)
• USP 425 Community and the Built Environment (4 cr)
USP 445 Cities and Third World Development (3 cr))
• USP 480 Political Economy of Nonprofit Organizations (3 cr)
• ANTH 416 Urban Anthropology (4 cr)
• BST 484 African-American Community Development (4 cr)
• GEOG 462 Sense of Place (4 cr)
• HST 434 U.S. Social and Intellectual History (4 cr)
• PS 431 State and Local Government and Politics (4 cr)
• SOC 320 Globalization (4 cr)
• SOC 337 Minorities (4 cr)
• SOC 376 Social Change (4 cr)
• SOC 420 Urbanization and Community (4 cr)
• SOC 423 Stratification (4 cr)
• SOC 424 Groups, Interactions, and Identity (4 cr)
• SOC 436 Social Movements (4 cr)
• SOC 460 Youth Subcultures (4 cr)
• SP 437 Urban Communication (3 cr)

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Housing and Economic Development

Required (22 credits):

• USP 311 Introduction to Urban Planning (4 cr)
• USP 312 Urban Housing and Development (4 cr)
• USP 423 Development Process (3 cr)
• USP 428 Concepts of Community Development (4 cr)
• USP 430 Urban Studies Research Methods (4 cr)
• USP 451 Community Economic Development (3 cr)

Choose 4 courses from among the following:

• USP 313 Urban Planning: Environmental Issues (4 cr)
• USP 385 History of American Cities (4 cr)
• USP 410 Native American Planning Issues (3cr)
• USP 419 Population and Society (4cr)
  
• USP 424 Healthy Communities (4 cr)
• USP 425 Community and the Built Environment (4 cr)
• USP 426 Neighborhood Conservation and Change (4 cr)
• USP 427 Downtown Revitalization (3 cr)
• USP 429 Poverty in the Urban Community (3 cr)
• USP 445 Cities and Third World Development (3 cr)
• USP 446 Real Estate Development II (3 cr)
• USP 448 Real Estate Market Analysis (3 cr)
• USP 455 Land Use: Legal Aspects (3 cr)
• USP 456 Urban Transportation: Problems and Policies (3 cr)
• USP 465 Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning (3rd)
  
• USP 468 Oregon Land Use Law (3 cr)
• USP 480 Political Economy of Nonprofit Organizations (3 cr)
• USP 490 Green Economics and Sustainable Development (3 cr)
• USP 498 Introduction to Finance and Real Estate (3 cr)
• USP 499 Real Estate Finance and Investments (3 cr)
  
• BST 484 African-American Community Development (4 cr)
• ECON 465 Economics of Labor Markets (4 cr)
• GEOG 332 Urban Geography (4 cr)
• GEOG 345 Resource Management (4 cr)
• GEOG 432 Urban Landscapes (4 cr)

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Communications and Community Development

Required (20 credits):

• USP 311 Introduction to Urban Planning (4 cr)
• USP 426 Neighborhood Conservation and Change (4 cr)
• USP 428 Concepts of Community Development (4 cr)
• USP 430 Urban Studies Research Methods (4 cr)
• USP 450 Concepts of Citizen Participation (4 cr)

Choose 8 credits from among the following:

• SP 215 Introduction to Intercultural Communication (4 cr)
• SP 218 Interpersonal Communication (4 cr)
• SP 337 Communication and Gender (4 cr)
• SP 420 Political Communication (4 cr)
• SP 437 Urban Communication (4 cr)

Choose 8 credits from the following:

• USP 385 History of American Cities (4 cr)
• USP 457 Information Cities (3 cr)
• BST 484 African-American Community Development (4 cr)
• SP 212 Mass Communication and Society (4 cr)
• SP 220 Public Speaking (4 cr)
• SP 313 Communication in Groups (4 cr)
• SP 314 Persuasion (4 cr)
• SP 320 Advanced Public Speaking (4 cr)
• SP 324 Critical Thinking and Argumentation (4 cr)
• SP 340 Interviewing (4 cr)
• SP 415 Problems of Intercultural Communication (4 cr)
• SP 417 Communication and Conflict (4 cr)
• SP 418 Advanced Interpersonal Communication (4 cr)
• SP 422 Critical Theories of Mass Communication (4 cr)
• SP 423 Organizational Communication (4 cr)
• SP 427 Issues in International Communication (4 cr)
• WR 227 Introduction to Technical Writing (4 cr)
• WR 228 News Writing (4 cr)

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