Georgia Institute of Technology School of City and Regional Planning | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA

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).

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 the School of City and Regional Planning
• two additional 3-credit electives selected from a list (found below) of sustainability and community engagement courses offered in City Planning and related academic disciplines.

Students must take at least three courses from the below list of courses (subject to the normal Georgia Tech requirements for undergraduates taking graduate courses). At least one of these courses must have a CP prefix and at least two of these courses must be at the 3000 level or above.

The list of courses shown below is 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 list. All courses previously approved by the Chair will be included on the list found below.

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.

Students must earn a grade of "C" or above in each course (no pass/fail options) for a minimum GPA of 2.0 overall within the minor.

It is the major advisor’s responsibility to verify that students are using only courses from the designated block(s) from the student’s major field of study that are allowed to satisfy a minor program, that they are not using any Core Area A-E courses (including humanities and social sciences), and that they are not using any courses for more than one minor or certificate. Any free elective course used to satisfy the course requirements of the student’s major degree program may also be used to satisfy the course requirements for a minor.