TRANSPORTATION AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Senior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand major debates, issues, and theories in transportation, land use, urban design, and travel behavior at the site, neighborhood, regional, and global scales. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Develop and apply strategies for collecting and analyzing data representing built environment and transportation issues such as travel behavior. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Appreciate the roles of officials, stakeholders, and community members in making decisions about transportation and built environments. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Appreciate economic, social, cultural, technological, and environmental factors in urban and regional growth and change. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop one’s professional identity by envisioning a future self (and possibly make plans that build on the course experience), evaluating one’s own learning, and assessing one’s own strengths and weaknesses. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand major debates, issues, and theories in transportation, land use, urban design, and travel behavior at the site, neighborhood, regional, and global scales. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Develop and apply strategies for collecting and analyzing data representing built environment and transportation issues such as travel behavior. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Appreciate the roles of officials, stakeholders, and community members in making decisions about transportation and built environments. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Appreciate economic, social, cultural, technological, and environmental factors in urban and regional growth and change. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop one’s professional identity by envisioning a future self (and possibly make plans that build on the course experience), evaluating one’s own learning, and assessing one’s own strengths and weaknesses. Audience: Graduate