About the Program

Planning is a discipline concerned with effective change and development in a positive and beneficial manner. Buffalo State is the only SUNY comprehensive college that offers an undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning. The program emphasizes technical skills and it is applied in nature - many of the courses are taught by professional planners currently employed by local planning agencies. In particular, our GIS offerings provide students with highly marketable skills. Upper division classes are small (10-20 students), which facilitates individual attention.

Evening study available.

About the Pol Sci, Public Admn,and Plan Department

202 Cassety Hall
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-6116
Fax: (716) 878-3369
https://politicalscience.buffalostate.edu/

Learning Outcomes

Students will:

1. understand the basic themes in the planning field and the multidisciplinary aspects of the profession.
2. be able to assemble ideas and information from prior planning practice and scholarship and understand its relationship to plan development.
3. be able to organize planning information into maps, graphs, and other visual representations and analyze that information to seek patterns, relationships, and connections.
4. be able to prepare and deliver clear and convincing written and oral presentations.

Program Requirements

General Education 23 Requirements
33 credit hours 33

Urban and Regional Planning Major Requirements (39 credit hours)
PLN 215 INTRODUCTION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING 3
PLN 225 PLANNING METHODS 3
PLN 315 PRINCIPLES OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING 3
PLN 325 MAPS AND MAPMAKING USING GIS 3
PLN 340 LAND USE PLANNING AND ZONING 3
PLN 401 PLANS AND PLAN-MAKING 3
PLN 431 PLANNING PRACTICUM 3

Electives Selected by Advisement (18 credit hours)
Select from the following: 18
PLN/GEG 309 URBAN GEOGRAPHY
PLN 341 HOUSING AND EQUITABLE URBANISM
PLN 350 PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
PLN 380 NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PLN/GEG 405 URBAN ANALYSIS USING GIS
PLN 412 COMMUNITY PLANNING AGENCIES AND ISSUES
PLN 488 INTERNSHIP (1-15)
GEG 305 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
GEG 425 FUNDAMENTALS OF GIS
GEG 428 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING APPLICATIONS IN GIS

All College Electives
42-48 credit hours 42-48
Total Credit Hours 120