Completing a Community Planning minor at UNH will equip you with the skills to shape sustainable and vibrant communities. This minor focuses on urban development, land use and environmental planning, offering practical knowledge in designing spaces that enhance quality of life. It’s particularly valuable in today’s world, where sustainable development and smart growth are crucial. This minor appeals to students interested in urban studies, environmental science, or public policy and who are passionate about improving communities and solving complex social challenges.
What is the community planning minor?
The community planning minor is a set of classes that cover the primary methods of planning and community development. You’ll learn a set of techniques that improve the physical environment for sustaining people, businesses, service delivery and the natural environment. This is a flexible minor intended to enhance most major degrees.
Why study community planning at UNH?
A minor in community planning can enhance your major degree in life sciences and agriculture, liberal arts, health and human services, engineering, business and many others. The community planning minor gives you community-level perspective, critical skills,and hands-on experience and makes you better equipped for creating sustainable solutions for the future health of communities.
Potential career areas
- Community development practitioner
- Community planner
- Recreation planner
- Regional planner
- Sustainability specialist
- Stewardship specialist
- Transportation planner
- Urban planner
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Curriculum & Requirements
Planning is a multidisciplinary profession that requires an understanding of social, economic, and environmental connections to land use change. Students may supplement their major with the minor in community planning to enhance their skills to work with communities for improved sustainability.
- Required: 20 hours of credit
- A grade of C- or better in each of the 5 courses.
- No more than 8 credits used to satisfy major requirements may be used for the minor
- Credit/fail courses may not be used for the minor.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Group I: Theory and Practice of Planning | ||
| All or equivalent of the following three courses: | ||
| CEP 415 | Community Development Perspectives | 4 |
| CEP 508 | Applied Community Development | 4 |
| CEP 614 | Fundamentals of Planning | 4 |
| Group II: Tools and Applications in Planning | ||
| Select two of the following: | 8 | |
CEP 673 | Green Real Estate | |
or CEP 672 | Fundamentals of Real Estate | |
CEP 777 | Topics in Community Planning | |
EREC 606 | Land Economics Perspectives: Uses, Policies, and Taxes | |
EREC 627 | Community Economics | |
EREC 756 | Rural and Regional Economic Development | |
NR 658 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | |
NR 724 | Resolving Environmental Conflicts | |
NR 785 | Systems Thinking for Sustainable Solutions | |
TOUR 767 | Social Impact Assessment | |
| Total Credits | 20 | |
