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Stackable Certificate Programs, Community and Regional Planning

Stackable graduate certificates are available to degree-seeking and non-degree-seeking graduate students. Some stackable certificates may be awarded following completion of program requirements, while others require simultaneous awarding of the graduate certificate and a graduate degree.

See the Stackable Certificates section of this catalog for additional information and policies related to stackable certificates.

The graduate program for this catalog section offers the following stackable certificate programs. To see a full list of graduate certificates offered at the University, please see the Graduate Study section of the Graduate Catalog.

Community and Regional Planning: Introduction to City Planning

This Community and Regional Planning: Introduction to City Planning stackable graduate certificate provides an overview of the theoretical foundations, specific skills, and practical experience that constitute the context of professional planning. The stackable graduate certificate is open to any University of Texas at Austin degree-seeking graduate student and requires three courses (nine credit hours). All courses required for the stackable graduate certificate are offered in a face-to-face format on the UT Austin campus.

RequirementsHours
CRP 380FTopics in Foundations of Planning (Topic 1: Planning History, Theory, and Ethics)3
CRP 381MTopics in Foundational Methods in Planning (Topic 2: Qualitative and Participatory Methods)3
Three hours selected from the following:3
Topics in Physical Planning and Design (Topic 5: Garden City to New Community)
Topics in Physical Planning and Design (Topic 9: Social Life of Public Places)
Topics in Physical Planning and Design (Topic 11: The Future: Views in Planning)
Topics in Environment and Natural Resources (Topic 3: Environmental Impact Assessment)
Topics in Environment and Natural Resources (Topic 4: Disasters and Resilience: Planning and Response)
Topics in Environment and Natural Resources (Topic 7: Introduction to Urban Ecology)
Topics in Environment and Natural Resources (Topic 15: Brownfields)
Topics in Transportation (Topic 4: Land Use and Transportation Planning)
Topics in Transportation (Topic 9: Transportation Planning and Policy)
Topics in Transportation (Topic 10: Bicycle and Pedestrian Transit Planning)
Topics in Transportation (Topic 11: Megaregional Planning)
Topics in Economic and Community Development (Topic 2: Urban Economic Development Policy)
Topics in Economic and Community Development (Topic 3: Sustainable Urban Economic Development Planning)
Topics in Economic and Community Development (Topic 4: Community Development)
Topics in Economic and Community Development (Topic 6: International Sustainable Social Development)
Topics in Economic and Community Development (Topic 7: Social, Spatial, and Environmental Justice)
Topics in Economic and Community Development (Topic 15: Migratory Urbanism)
Topics in Applied Planning Techniques (Topic 5: Urban Geographic Information Systems)
Topics in Applied Planning Techniques (Topic 12: Financing Real Estate Projects: Non-Profit and For-Profit)
Topics in Infrastructure Planning (Topic 2: Water Resources Planning)
Topics in Infrastructure Planning (Topic 7: Race and the Built Environment)
Topics in Housing (Topic 3: Affordable Housing Planning and Policy)
Topics in Housing (Topic 5: Housing Practice and Public Policy in Latin America)
Topics in Historic Preservation (Topic 1: History of American City Building)
Topics in Historic Preservation (Topic 2: Preservation History and Theory)
Total Hours9