The Regional Analysis and Community Development Option is concerned with the spatial arrangements, distribution and interrelationships between socio-economic development projects and programs and community life, and the processes for resolving issues related to them. Students take foundation as well as specialized courses in economic geography, urban geography, community and regional analysis and community development practices.

Students in this option will be equipped for a wide range of jobs in both the public and private sectors. Among these are city and county planners, transportation planners, economic development coordinators, development program administrators, location analysts, market research analysts, and business analysts.


A. Core Courses.

B. Required Courses:

C. Additional credits selected from the following to total 40 credits (plus Math 355):

D. Recommended Courses:

  • Geology 330 (3 cr) Environmental Geology

  • Business 331 (3 cr) Marketing Research

  • Economics 100 (3 cr) Introduction to Economics

  • Economics 310 (3 cr) Statistical Methods for Business and Economic Activites

  • Economics 374 (3 cr) Regional Economic Growth

  • Natural Resources 480 (3 cr)  Urban and Regional Planning Practice

  • Sociology 356 (3 cr) Urban Sociology

  • Sociology 357 (3 cr) Sociology of Planning

  • Political Science 242 (3 cr)  State and Local Government

  • Political Science 341(3 cr) Urban Politics

  • Political Science 356(3 cr) Government Finance

  • Political Science 358 (3 cr) Public Budgets

  • Political Science 397(3 cr) Methods of Policy Analysis

  • Computer Information(4 cr) Introduction to Computing and Systems 101-102 Practicum in Computing

* Latent courses are not taught on a routine basis.

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