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Small Town, Urban, & Regional Planning

 

Geographers bring a uniquely valuable combination of skills and knowledge to the challenge of planning the places where people live and work. Our majors have gotten jobs in planning in large cities and small towns alike. See a list of job titles and employers for our graduates here. There is more information about geography careers available from the Association of American Geographers here. Open the link and look under “Urban and Regional Planning” for ideas.

To learn more about careers in this field, contact: Dr. Robert Kuhlken: 310 Dean Hall, kuhlkenr@cwu.edu, or 963-2795

If you are interested in a career in urban and regional planning, we suggest you choose the following advanced courses:

Regional

Geography 352 – Geography of North America (5)
Geography 355 – Geography of the Pacific Northwest (4)

Physical

Geography 361/461 – Soils (5)
Geography 382 – Hydrology (5)
Geography 386 – Geomorphology (5)

Human

Geography 304 – Economic Geography (5)
Geography 481 – Urban Geography (5)

Resource

Geography 305 – Introduction to Land Use Planning (5)
Geography 373 – Water Resources (4)
Geography 405 – Advanced Topics in Land Use Planning (3)
Geography 445 – Natural Resources Policy (4)
Geography 448 – Resource and Environmental Analysis (5)
Geography 473 – Watershed Analysis and Planning (4)

Techniques

Geography 303 – Introductory GIS (5)
Geography 404 – Intermediate GIS (5)
Geography 409 – Quantitative Methods in Geography (5)
Geography 410 – Airphoto Interpretation (4)
Geography 413 – Computer Cartography (4)
Geography 417 – Advanced GIS (4)
Geography 430 – Remote Sensing (5)

Suggested Non-Geography Courses

Economics 201 – Principles of Economics Micro (5)
Economics 462 – Economics of Energy, Resources, and Environment (5)
English 310 – Technical Writing (4)
Organizational Management 380 – Organizational Management (5)
Sociology 415 – Urban Sociology (5)

 


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