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Phase I Courses
Phase II Courses

Phase I

Qualitative Research Methods
Choose one of the following, with potential for substitution of alternative courses at an equivalent or more advanced level:

URBDP 598 Qualitative Research Methods Autumn
GEOG 425 Qualitative Methodology in Geography Winter
HIST 598 Methods of Historical Research Spring
HSERV 526 Qualitative Research Methods for Public Health Spring
POL S 493 Qualitative Research Methods Spring

Substitutions

Approved    
URBDP 589D Interpreting the Urban Environment  
 

Spring Quantitative Research Methods
Choose one of the following, with potential for substitution of alternative courses at an equivalent or more advanced level:

CS&SS 594C Multivariate Data Analysis for Social Sciences Autumn
CS&SS 504 Applied Regression Winter
CEE 584 Analytic Methods in Transportation Winter

Substitutions

Approved    
CSSS 526 Structural Equation Models for the Social Sciences  
CSSS 589
Advanced Data Analysis
PB AF 528 Quantitative Methods  
SOC 505
Applied Social Statistics
   
Not Approved  
PB AF 527 Quantitative Research Methods
URBDP 520 Quantitative Methods in Urban Design & Planning
 

Note: for students needing a refresher in mathematics, the following one-credit course would be a useful refresher before taking one of the courses above:

CS&SS 505 Review of Mathematics for Social Scientists Spring
   

And the following one-credit course is valuable for obtaining skills in computing environments for quantitative analysis:

CS&SS 506 Computer Environments for the Social Sciences  Winter
   

Phase II

Urban Processes and Patterns
Choose three of the following, with potential for substitution of alternative courses:

URBDP 479  Urban Form  Autumn
URBDP 498  Real Estate Process            Winter
URBDP 561 Urban Economics    Winter
URBDP 598   Urban Ecology   Autumn
URBDP 598  American Urban History  Autumn
GEOG 440  Regional Analysis    Spring
GEOG 448 Geography of Transportation   Autumn
GEOG 450  Theories of Location  Autumn
GEOG 466  Regional Economic Development  Winter
GEOG 477 Advanced Urban Geography   Spring
GEOG 478 Intraurban Spatial Patterns  Spring
GEOG 479    Race, Ethnicity, and the American City   Spring
GEOG 578  Theorizing Cities  Winter
SOC 490  The Urban Underclass   Aut/Win
POL S 481  Big City Politics    Winter

Substitutions

Approved    
ESC 441
Landscape Ecology
URBDP 598 Topic in Urban Affairs: Community & Economic Development
URBDP 598 Transportation & Environment  
   
Not Approved  
URBDP 467 Remote Sensing
URBDP474
Site Planning: Issues & Techniques

Research Design and Methods
Choose two of the following, with potential for substitution of alternative courses:

CS&SS 536  Log-Linear Modeling  Autumn
CS&SS 560  Hierarchical Modeling in the Social Sciences  Winter
CS&SS 567 Statistical Analysis of Networks  Winter
CS&SS 594 Distributional Methods with Application to the Measurement of Inequality   Winter
CS&SS 529 Sample Survey Techniques   Spring
CS&SS 544 Event History Analysis of Social & Spatial Change Spring
CS&SS 566 Causal Modeling  Spring
URBDP 422  Geospatial Urban & Regional Analysis  Spring
URBDP 525 Planning Evaluation  Winter
URBDP 530 Introduction to Urban Simulation  Spring
URBDP 571  Research and Analytic Methods for Urban Design  Winter
GEOG 460  Introduction to Geographic Information Systems  Autumn
GEOG 461  Urban Geographic Information Systems  Winter
PBAF 526 Program Evaluation     Winter
SOC 526 Causal Approach to Theory Building & Data Analysis Winter
SOC 529  Structural Equation Models for the Social Sciences   Winter

Substitutions

Approved    
QERM 514
Analysis of Ecological & Environmental Data
EPI 511 Introduction to Epidemiology
   
Not Approved  
FISH 547 River Ecology
OCEAN 506A
Applied Geostatistics
URBDP474
Site Planning: Issues & Techniques

Urban and Environmental Design and Planning
Choose two of the following, with potential for substitution of alternative courses:

URBDP 465 Land Use Planning  Autumn
PBAF 513  Policy Analysis  Autumn
PBAF 517  Economics of the Public Sector   Spring
PBAF 518  Applied Cost-Benefit Analysis   Autumn
URBDP 598  Transportation Planning   Autumn
URBDP 598 Environmental Planning   Winter
POLS 574 Environmental Regulatory Policy  Autumn
CFR 592 Environmental Policy Processes Autumn
ARCH 561  Urban Design Theory  Winter
PBAF 565 Housing Policy  Spring

Substitutions

Approved    
URBDP 598D
Democracy, Citizenship, and Participation in the City
URBDP 598F Urban & Suburban Building Types for Urban Designers & Planners

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   Autumn
GRDSCH 630 Special Topics in College/University Teaching    Winter

Substitutions