Undergraduate Courses

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning offers a breadth of knowledge through its degree programs on understanding urban and built environments and teaches skills in information analysis, computing, written communications, and graphic techniques. In addition, the department offers specialized courses in land use, community design, neighborhood development, local government policy, economic development, environmental affairs, real estate development, historic preservation, legal issues, and geographic information systems. The preprofessional environmental design program utilizes the dynamic bi-national Buffalo-Niagara region as a laboratory for planning, design, and action.
For information on courses and course descriptions in the pre-professional environmental design program offered by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, visit http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/academicprograms/env_courses.shtml.
Career information and post-baccalaureate opportunities for environmental design students is available in the UB undergraduate Catalog at http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/academicprograms/ env_career.shtml.
For information on environmental design admissions and advisement, contact School of Architecture and Planning Advisement at ap-advising@buffalo.edu.


