Urban Affairs Minor

CAPPA offers a minor to students interested in complementing their academic career with a broader understanding of Urban Affairs, Urban Planning and the Environment, or Public Administration.

Students pursuing the minor complete two required core courses then select four courses from one of the fields listed below. The minor requires 18 hours of coursework (Before registering for any course, students should consult with the advisor in their major field of study).

~ Due to prerequisite restrictions all ARCH/INTD classes and some LARC/PLAN classes are limited to architecture and interior design declared (3rd/4th year) majors only.

Students interested in adding the Minor in Urban and Public Affairs to their degree plan should send questions to arch.advising@uta.edu.

URBAN AFFAIRS MINOR REQUEST FORM

To schedule an appointment for minor advising with one of our advisors: click here

All courses are not offered every semester. Check the Schedule of Classes to find course offerings.

REQUIRED CORE COURSES -- 6 hours

PLAN 1301: Intro to Urban Life
PLAN 3301: The Metroplex

FIELD OF INTEREST (SELECT ONE) - 12 hours

Group 1 - Public Administration
Group 2 - Urban Affairs

GROUP 1 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Student should select four courses from the list below:

~ Due to prerequisite restrictions all ARCH/INTD classes and some LARC/PLAN classes are limited to architecture and interior design declared (3rd/4th year) majors only.

ACCT 3309: Accounting for Managers
ACCT 4325: Governmental Accounting

ANTH 4348: Political Anthropology

COMM 4305: Communication and Society
COMM 4330: Political Communication
COMM 4335: Intercultural Communication

COMS 3309: Organizational Communication
COMS 3310: Group Communication Theory
COMS 3316: Communication in Human Relations

CRCJ 3336: Law Enforcement Management
CRCJ 3338: Juvenile Justice System
CRCJ 4309: Private Security System

ECON 3304: Public Sector Economics
ECON 3313: Industrial Organization & Public Policy
ECON 3335: Economics of Public Policies
ECON 4330: Human Resource Economics

GEOL 1330: Global Warming
GEOL 2406: Natural Resources & Sustainability
GEOL 4331: Analysis of Spatial Data

LARC 4301: Site Planning and Development Processes ~

MANA 3318: Managing Organizational Behavior
MANA 3319: Management Process Theory
MANA 3320: Human Resource Management
MANA 4320: Employment Law
MANA 4325: Leadership in Organizations
MANA 4328: Human Resource Staffing & Performance Management
MANA 4330: Team Management
MANA 4341: Negotiations and Conflict

PAPP 4307: Urban Geography

PHIL 2312: Ethics

PLAN 4310: Planning the American City
PLAN 4320: Sustainable Communities
PLAN 4395: Studies in Planning (approved Planning topics courses)
- Approved Topics:
  - Environmental Assessment Policy & Practice ~
  - Transportation Policies, Programs & History ~
  - Social Justice ~

POLS 2312: State & Local Government
POLS 3303: Introduction to Public Administration
POLS 3305: Government in Urban America
POLS 3307: Comparative State and Local Politics
POLS 3308: Politics of a Texas City: Arlington City Politics
POLS 4303: Public Administration and the Political Process
POLS 4331: U.S. Constitutional Law: Government Power
POLS 4353: Public Budgeting and Taxation

PSYC 3301: Psychology of Human Relations
PSYC 3302: Business Psychology

GROUP 2 - URBAN AFFAIRS

Student should select four courses from the list below:

~ Due to prerequisite restrictions all ARCH/INTD classes and some LARC/PLAN classes are limited to architecture and interior design declared (3rd/4th year) majors only.

ANTH 2322: Global Cultures
ANTH 3339: Urban Anthropology
ANTH 3355: The Rise of Civilization

ARCH 4307: The Life of Cities ~
ARCH 4311: Topics in Architecture Theory (approved Architecture Theory topics courses)~
- Approved Topics:
  - Planning & Designing the Sustainable City ~
  - What Makes A City: Critical Issues in Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design ~
ARCH 4313: The Architect in Contemporary Society ~
ARCH 4315: Topics in Architecture History (approved Architecture History topics courses) ~
- Approved Topics:
  - Skyscraper Histories ~
ARCH 4395: Topics in Architecture (approved Architecture topics courses) ~
- Approved Topics:
  - Adv. Manufacturing+Sustainability ~
  - Density+Affordability: Reshaping the Suburban City ~

COMM 4305: Communication and Society
COMM 4330: Political Communication
COMM 4335: Intercultural Communication

COMS 3310: Group Communication Theory
COMS 3316: Communication in Human Relations

CRCJ 3380: Race, Crime, and Justice
CRCJ 4301: The American Judicial System
CRCJ 4325: Gangs

ECON 2337: Economics of Social Issues
ECON 3302: The Economics of Crime
ECON 3335: Economics of Public Policies
ECON 4330: Human Resource Economics

GEOG 3350: Reading the Landscape (also HIST 3350)

HIST 2302: History of Civilization
HIST 3327: Cities and Suburbs in U.S. History
HIST 3348: DFW Metroplex (formerly offered as HIST 3351)
HIST 3350: Reading and the Landscape
HIST 3351: History of Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (now offered as HIST 3348)
HIST 3365: African-American History to 1865
HIST 3366: African-American History 1865-Present
HIST 3368: Germany and The World, 1918-Present
HIST 3373: US Economic History, 1860-Present
HIST 3377: History of Mexico

HUMA 4302: Social and Political Theory

LARC 4300: Introduction to Landscape Architecture
LARC 4327: Regionalism, Creativity, and Design (formerly offered as LARC 4395) ~
LARC 4395: Topics in Landscape Architecture (approved Landscape Architecture topics courses)
- Approved Topics:
  - Creative Regional Design ~ (now offered as LARC 4327)

MANA 4326: Diversity in Organizations
MANA 4340: Business and Society
MANA 4341: Negotiations and Conflict

PAPP 4307: Urban Geography

PHIL 3330: Social and Political Philosophy

PLAN 4310: Planning the American City
PLAN 4320: Sustainable Communities
PLAN 4395: Studies in Planning (approved Planning topics courses)
- Approved Topics:
  - Transportation Policies, Programs & History ~
  - Social Justice ~

POLS 2312: State and Local Government
POLS 3305: Government in Urban America
POLS 3308: Politics of a Texas City: Arlington City Politics
POLS 3312: Introduction to Public Policy Analysis
POLS 3313: Modern Critics of Society and Politics
POLS 4318: Politics of African Americans
POLS 4319: Politics of Mexican Americans
POLS 4352: US Immigration Policy and the American Dream

PSYC 3315: Social Psychology

SOCI 3317: Individuals and Society
SOCI 3336: Social Inequality
SOCI 3353: Social Climate of Cities
SOCI 3357: Law and Society
SOCI 4315: Violence in Society

SOCW 3301: Theories of Human Behavior
SOCW 3303: Social Welfare Policies and Services
SOCW 3317: Human Behavior in Diverse Populations