Minor in Sustainable Cities
The School of City and Regional Planning offers a minor in Sustainable Cities that emphasizes both sustainability and community engagement. It provides students with a deep learning experience that integrates classroom learning and real-world, community-based project experience in creating sustainable communities, with a focus on the built urban environment. The minor is affiliated with Serve-Learn-Sustain (SLS).
If you have questions about the minor, please contact Johnnie Sawyer at johnnie.sawyer@design.gatech.edu.
Requirements
The minor in Sustainable Cities consists of five courses and fifteen credit hours. It includes:
- six credits of required coursework (CP 2233: Sustainable Urban Development and CP 4052: Sustainable Cities Studio)
- one additional 3-credit elective from a list of courses offered by the School of City and Regional Planning
- one additional 3-credit elective selected from a list of courses offered in related academic disciplines
- one additional 3-credit elective drawn from the courses on either list.
The lists of courses shown below are not exhaustive. With permission of the Chair of the School of City and Regional Planning students may substitute one course with substantial Sustainable Cities content that is not on the below lists. All courses previously approved by the Chair will be included on an updated list of Chair Approved Courses available from the website of the School of City and Regional Planning.
A maximum of 3 credit hours of transfer credit may be used to satisfy the course requirements for a minor. This includes courses taken at another institution or credit earned through the AP or IB program, assuming the scores meet Georgia Tech minimum standards.
All courses counting toward the minor must be taken on a letter-grade basis and must be completed with a grade of C (2.00) or better.
It is the responsibility of the student and major advisor to verify that any courses a student wishes to count toward both a major and a minor meet all the Georgia Tech and major School requirements. For Georgia Tech minor requirements see the Catalog entry describing requirements for any minor.
Course List
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Required Courses |
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Sustainable Urban Development |
3 |
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Sustainable Cities Studio (with prerequisite of CP 2233) |
3 |
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Select three hours from the following list of City Planning courses: |
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3 |
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Foundation of Urban & Region Development |
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Introduction to Urban & Region Planning |
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Land Conservation |
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Introduction to Climate Change Planning |
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Environmental Planning & Impact Assessment |
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Urban Transportation |
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Geographic Information Systems |
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Land Use Planning |
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Policy Tools for Environmental Management |
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Health Impact Assessment |
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Equity, Justice & Economic Development |
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Community Development |
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Government & Housing Markets |
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Citizen Participation |
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Urban Ecological Design |
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Public Health and Built Environment |
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Select three hours from the following list of courses in related academic disciplines: |
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3 |
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Foundations of Sustainable Systems |
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Technology and Sustainable Community Development |
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Business Decisions for Sustainability and Shared Value |
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Social Impact: In-depth Exploration and Design |
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General Ecology Lecture |
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General Ecology Lab |
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Extreme Atlanta: Climate Change in Urban Spaces |
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Environmental Policy and Markets |
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Energy Policy and Markets |
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Semester in the City |
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Urban Sociology |
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The City in U.S. History |
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American Environmental History |
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Introduction to Social Justice |
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Environmentalism and Ecocriticism |
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Information and Communication Technologies and Global Development |
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Information and Communication Technologies and Global Development |
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Multimodal Transportation |
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Smart and Sustainable Cities |
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Energy, Efficiency, and Sustainability |
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History of Urban Form |
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Architecture and Ecology |
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Collaborative Design Workshop |
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VV4 Bee Snap |
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VV5 Engineering for Social Innovation |
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VVS HumaniTech |
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Study Abroad in Japan: Summer Program in Sustainable Development (Courses may also be taken on campus in Atlanta): |
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Introduction to Global Development |
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Sustainable Megaregions |
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Energy, Environment and Policy |
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Global Development Capstone |
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Study Abroad in Italy: Sustainable Development and Climate Change (Courses may also be taken on campus in Atlanta): |
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Climate Policy |
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Sustainability, Technology and Policy |
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Sustainability in Spain (LBAT) |
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France Today (taught only at GTL) |
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Field Work Abroad |
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LBAT French Semester Abroad (LBAT) |
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Crossing Borders |
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Current Issues (LBAT) |
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Globalization in Latin America |
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Spanish Service Learning |
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Spanish Service Learning Abroad I |
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Spanish Service Learning Abroad II |
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Hispanic Community Internship |
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Iberoamerican Cities |
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Serve Learn Sustain in Spain |
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Select three hours from either of the above lists. |
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3 |
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Total Credit Hours |
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15 |
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