Phase II: Area of Study
Once a student is admitted to Phase II, they form a Supervisory Committee to oversee their progress through the rest of their academic program. The committee must consist of at least three faculty members in the Interdisciplinary Group representing at least two academic departments; one member must be from the Urban Design and Planning Department. Students requiring a committee of a different composition should submit a request to the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee recommends (but does not require ) that students have at least four faculty members on their committee and that two of these be from the Urban Design and Planning Department. Students will develop with their supervisory committee a description of their proposed areas of study. These will define areas of scholarship that must demonstrate an interdisciplinary research approach to an application within urban and environmental planning and policy. The description should develop a curriculum proposal approved by the supervisory committee that addresses the following advanced study requirements:
Phase II Curriculum Requirements
Phase II requirements involve 7 courses and a teaching seminar, in
addition to advanced courses directly related to the area of study selected
by the student. Some of these courses may be taken in the first year.
Urban Processes and Patterns
- Choose three of the following, with potential for substitution of alternative
courses:
| URBDP 479 |
Urban Form |
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| URBDP 498 |
Real Estate Process |
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| URBDP 561 |
Urban Economics |
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| URBDP 598 |
Urban Ecology |
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| URBDP 598 |
American Urban History |
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| GEOG 440 |
Regional Analysis |
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| GEOG 448 |
Geography of Transportation |
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| GEOG 450 |
Theories of Location |
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| GEOG 466 |
Regional Economic Development |
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| GEOG 477 |
Advanced Urban Geography |
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| GEOG 478 |
Intraurban Spatial Patterns |
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| GEOG 479 |
Race, Ethnicity, and the American City |
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| GEOG 578 |
Theorizing Cities |
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| SOC 490 |
The Urban Underclass |
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| POL S 481 |
Big City Politics |
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Research Design
and Methods - Choose two of the following,
with potential for substitution of alternative courses:
| CS&SS 536 |
Log-Linear Modeling |
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| CS&SS 560 |
Hierarchical Modeling in the Social Sciences |
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| CS&SS 567 |
Statistical Analysis of Networks |
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| CS&SS 594 |
Distributional Methods with Application to the Measurement of Inequality |
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| CS&SS 529 |
Sample Survey Techniques |
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| CS&SS 544 |
Event History Analysis of Social & Spatial Change |
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| CS&SS 566 |
Causal Modeling |
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| URBDP 422 |
Geospatial Urban & Regional Analysis |
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| URBDP 525 |
Planning Evaluation |
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| URBDP 530 |
Introduction to Urban Simulation |
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| URBDP 571 |
Research and Analytic Methods for Urban Design |
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| GEOG 460 |
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems |
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| GEOG 461 |
Urban Geographic Information Systems |
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| PBAF 526 |
Program Evaluation |
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| SOC 526 |
Causal Approach to Theory Building & Data Analysis |
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| SOC 529 |
Structural Equation Models for the Social Sciences |
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Urban and Environmental
Design and Planning - Choose two of the
following, with potential for substitution of alternative courses:
| URBDP 465 |
Land Use Planning |
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| PBAF 513 |
Policy Analysis |
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| PBAF 517 |
Economics of the Public Sector |
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| PBAF 518 |
Applied Cost-Benefit Analysis |
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| URBDP 598 |
Transportation Planning |
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| URBDP 598 |
Environmental Planning |
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| POLS 574 |
Environmental Regulatory Policy |
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| CFR 592 |
Environmental Policy Processes |
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| ARCH 561 |
Urban Design Theory |
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| PBAF 565 |
Housing Policy |
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Teaching
Methods - One teaching seminar,
and experience as a TA for at least one quarter, before completion of phase
III. The following courses or a suitable alternative will satisfy this
requirement.
| GEOG 599 |
Effective Teaching |
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| GRDSCH 630 |
Special Topics in College/University Teaching |
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General Examination
A critical review of the literature in the area of study must be developed by the student, which integrates interdisciplinary research on the area of study selected by the student, and identifies areas of potential research opportunity that may subsequently form the basis for a dissertation proposal. The review should demonstrate broad familiarity with relevant research in the chosen area, and with the range of theory and methods applied within the reviewed literature. The committee will provide feedback to the student at this stage about areas of additional study that may be required before a suitable dissertation proposal may be developed. Once advanced coursework in the area of study and critical review of the literature are completed, the student and committee schedules a General Examination, in which the Supervisory Committee evaluates the preparedness of the student to advance to doctoral candidate status, and to begin developing a dissertation proposal. It will be designed and evaluated by the student's supervisory committee.
