Community Development Major Resources

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The following is a comprehensive list of classes offered within the Community Development degree. Please share with us your comments around any of these classes by clicking on the course number, and then editing the page, or creating the page if it is not yet created. Thanks!

• USP 301 Theory and Philosophy of Community Development (4 cr)
• USP 302 Methods of Community Development (4 cr)
• USP 303 Community Development Field Seminar (4 cr)
• USP 311 Introduction to Urban Planning (4 cr)
• USP 312 Urban Housing and Development (4 cr)
• USP 313 Urban Planning: Environmental Issues (4 cr)
• USP 385 History of American Cities (4 cr)
• USP 410 Native Amercian Planning Issues (3cr)
• USP 419 Population and Society (4cr)
• USP 423 Development Process (3 cr)
• USP 424 Healthy Communities (4 cr)
• USP 425 Community and the Built Environment (4 cr)
• USP 426 Neighborhood Conservation and Change (4 cr)
• USP 427 Downtown Revitalization (3 cr)
• USP 428 Concepts of Community Development (4 cr)
• USP 429 Poverty in the Urban Community (3 cr)
• USP 430 Urban Studies Research Methods (4 cr)
• USP 445 Cities and Third World Development (3 cr)
• USP 446 Real Estate Development II (3 cr)
• USP 448 Real Estate Market Analysis (3 cr)
• USP 450 Concepts of Citizen Participation (4 cr)
• USP 451 Community Economic Development (3 cr)
• USP 455 Land Use: Legal Aspects (3 cr)
• USP 456 Urban Transportation: Problems and Policies (3 cr)
• USP 457 Information Cities (3 cr)
• USP 468 Oregon Land Use Law (3 cr)
• USP 480 Political Economy of Nonprofit Organizations (3 cr)
• USP 490 Green Economics and Sustainable Development (3 cr)
• USP 498 Introduction to Finance and Real Estate (3 cr)
• USP 499 Real Estate Finance and Investments (3 cr)

• BST 484 African-American Community Development (4 cr)
• ECON 465 Economics of Labor Markets (4 cr)
• GEOG 332 Urban Geography (4 cr)
• GEOG 345 Resource Management (4 cr)
• GEOG 432 Urban Landscapes (4 cr)
• SP 215 Introduction to Intercultural Communication (4 cr)
• SP 218 Interpersonal Communication (4 cr)
• SP 337 Communication and Gender (4 cr)
• SP 420 Political Communication (4 cr)
• SP 437 Urban Communication (4 cr)
• SP 212 Mass Communication and Society (4 cr)
• SP 220 Public Speaking (4 cr)
• SP 313 Communication in Groups (4 cr)
• SP 314 Persuasion (4 cr)
• SP 320 Advanced Public Speaking (4 cr)
• SP 324 Critical Thinking and Argumentation (4 cr)
• SP 340 Interviewing (4 cr)
• SP 415 Problems of Intercultural Communication (4 cr)
• SP 417 Communication and Conflict (4 cr)
• SP 418 Advanced Interpersonal Communication (4 cr)
• SP 422 Critical Theories of Mass Communication (4 cr)
• SP 423 Organizational Communication (4 cr)
• SP 427 Issues in International Communication (4 cr)
• WR 227 Introduction to Technical Writing (4 cr)
• WR 228 News Writing (4 cr)
• ANTH 416 Urban Anthropology (4 cr)
• GEOG 462 Sense of Place (4 cr)
• HST 434 U.S. Social and Intellectual History (4 cr)
• PS 431 State and Local Government and Politics (4 cr)
• SOC 320 Globalization (4 cr)
• SOC 337 Minorities (4 cr)
• SOC 376 Social Change (4 cr)
• SOC 420 Urbanization and Community (4 cr)
• SOC 423 Stratification (4 cr)
• SOC 424 Groups, Interactions, and Identity (4 cr)
• SOC 436 Social Movements (4 cr)
• SOC 460 Youth Subcultures (4 cr)