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Graduate Catalog 2013 - 2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Urban Studies
  

  • UST 657 - Adv Fundraising & Philanthropy

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): UST 651 or departmental approval. Prerequisite: UST 651 or departmental approval. This course is designed for experienced advancement and fundraising professionals who have been introduced to the basics of nonprofit revenue generation. Includes a brief review of the theoretical foundations of nonprofits and revenue generation. The focus of the course is the leadership and management of fundraising initiatives including planning for strategy and operations of fund development departments, programs and campaigns; use of technology and information systems; the ethics of fundraising, and practical skill development.


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  • UST 660 - Neighborhood Planning

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. The process and techniques for the creation and implementation of neighborhood development plans with an emphasis on Cleveland neighborhoods, neighborhood organizations, and neighborhood planning. An introduction to the local government organizations and private institutions that support neighborhood planning and federal, state, and local programs that fund neighborhood planning and development programs. Students participate in field research on a selected neighborhood project. Cross-listed with PDD 660.


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  • UST 661 - Legal Developments in Housing

    (4 credits)
    Analysis of the evolution of housing and community development legislation, programs, and policies in metropolitan America, with emphasis on special topics.


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  • UST 662 - Urban Housing Policy

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Focuses on the evolution of urban housing policy, the policies which shape the existing housing system, and proposals for modifying housing policy and programs. Housing policy developments are related to broad ideological and political changes since the 1960s. Considers major aspects of the current housing situation, including financing, production, affordability, preservation, and discrimination. Cross-listed with PDD 662.


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  • UST 664 - Neighborhood Development

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Analysis of community organizations at the neighborhood, community, and national levels; problems and concepts of community organization; models of social action and issues facing organizations. Cross-listed with PDD 664.


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  • UST 670 - Intro to Law & Public Policy

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Introduces the basic structures of the American legal system and how that system interacts with such other disciplines as planning, policy analysis, and public administration in the creation of public policy. First course of a two-course sequence, with UST 683. Cross-listed with PAD 670.


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  • UST 683 - Law and Public Policy Clinic

    (1-4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): UST 670 . Provides an opportunity for students to work on legal and public policy issues under the supervision of Law and Urban Affairs faculty. Clients include state and local governments, citizens’ groups, and nonprofit agencies who come to the clinic for analysis of and proposed solutions to a variety of critical government and social issues. Cross-listed with PAD 683.


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  • UST 690 - Urban Intership

    (8 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 691 - Practicum

    (1 credits)
    The practicum is intended to provide hands on learning and professional experience by providing students with the opportunity to develop a fundraising project that they complete over the course of the certificate course work.


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  • UST 692 - Capstone Sem Public Admin

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: departmental approval. A generalist public administration capstone course that provides a final, common experience for MPA students. Students integrate learning from the MPA core curriculum with professional practices encountered in public and nonprofit organizations. Students are expected to prepare and defend a capstone paper.


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  • UST 693 - Special Topics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Special offerings varying with faculty expertise and student interest. Typical subjects include Affirmative Action in the Public Sector, Public Personnel Management, Women as Leaders, etc. Specific topics listed in the Course Schedule.


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  • UST 696 - Individual Research

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 697 - Readings in Urban Problems

    (8 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 698 - Exit Project

    (8 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 699 - Master’s Thesis

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 704 - Organizational Behavior

    (4 credits)
    Complex formal organizations are the principal social vehicle for the conduct of public affairs. This course is an introductory doctoral seminar that examines the principal conceptual and theoretical bases for understanding the behavior of complex formal organizations, especially large-scale public bureaucracies. Cross-listed with NAL 604 and PAD 604.


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  • UST 710 - Dev Process/Market Analysis

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 714 - Future of Urban Children

    (4 credits)
    An examination of trends in the well-being of urban children and youth and the major factors influencing their growth and development. These factors include families and community structures and processes, socioeconomic status, education, health, delinquency, violence, and selected social policies.


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  • UST 715 - Economic Dev/Budget Policy

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 716 - System/Process of Policy Dev

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Study of methods used by policy makers and their staffs in formulating policy instruments; the objectives policy makers seek to accomplish; alternatives for achieving objectives. Areas of emphasis include distributional and spillover effects of policy; the political and organizational problems associated with the acceptance and implementation of policy.


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  • UST 720 - Economic Development: Plans and Strategies

    (4 credits)
    Examination of the techniques utilized in developing plans for overall economic growth and development with an emphasis on the industrial sector; actual experience in formulating and testing plans and development strategies. Requires comprehensive regional analysis.


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  • UST 721 - Local Labor Market Analysis

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 722 - Economic Development Policy

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. An examination of the international and national competitive positions of industry; state and national industrial policy proposals; various approaches to economic development and industrial policy. Cross-listed with PAD 622 and PDD 622.


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  • UST 723 - Urb Dev Finance

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Prerequisites. UST 603 and UST 610. Financing, deal structuring, and analysis of public subsidy for urban real estate projects using discounted cash flow analysis. Also includes preparation of a comprehensive report and the presentation of an urban real estate project. Crosslisted with PAD 623 and PDD 623.


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  • UST 725 - Strategic Thinking/Policy

    (4 credits)
    The theory and practice of strategic thinking for planning and management in the public and nonprofit sectors; concepts and procedures that assist planners and managers in coping with uncertainty; development of analytical skills and techniques.


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  • UST 726 - Workforce Development

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Prerequisite. UST 603 or equivalent. Workforce development takes place on both the supply and demand sides of the labor market. The demand side deals with the expressed needs of employers for specific skill types. The supply side is divided into efforts to upgrade the skills of incumbent workers and to inculcate marketable skills to new workers. A practical examination of the state of the art in workforce development strategies, policies, and programs. Cross-listed with PAD 626 and PDD 626


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  • UST 731 - Law & Public Admin

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Administrative law as the body of rules and prescriptions for public agencies. The evolution and development of American administrative law, its substance, and the role of administrative law in the governing process.


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  • UST 733 - Budget Policy & Management

    (4 credits)
    This course covers public budgeting and financial management in the context of America’s political economy. It explores the issue of what should be the appropriate role of the government in the economy and in society. It reviews American capitalism and democracy, their historical evolution, and the policy and budgetary tools available to political leaders and public administrators. It reviews sources of revenue, patterns of expenditure and the debt structure of American governmental units. It also includes an examination of budgetary processes, formats, and accounting systems. The course should provide a solid financial decision making foundation for non-financial managers and for students seeking careers in professions and organizations requiring knowledge of public finance and budgeting. Cross-listed with UST 633, PAD 633 and PDD 633.


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  • UST 734 - Ethics in the Public Sector

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Provides students with an understanding of the ethical dimensions of public administration and helps students develop the awareness, skills, and value framework to act ethically in a public or private sector management role.


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  • UST 742 - Intro to GIS

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Prerequisite: UST 501 or permission of instructor. Principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a computer tool to provide spatial information analysis. Laboratory instruction in the use of GIS software to aid in the analysis of workplace problem situations. Cross-listed with PAD 642 and PDD 642.


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  • UST 743 - Advanced GIS

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Prerequisites: UST 434 and UST 642 or equivalent. This course teaches students how to develop and implement various GIS applications such as network analysis, polygon overlay, and surface modeling. Students use advanced GIS software tools in completing computer-based analytical exercises. Cross-listed with PAD 643 and PDD 643.


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  • UST 751 - Envrnmtal Fin & Capital Budget

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Introductory course in natural-resource economics theory, financial decision-making processes, and public policy relevant to environmental protection, urban sustainability, and natural-resource development and management. Examination of issues and methods of financing environmental projects. Focus on the application of theory to practice in state and local governments. Cross-listed with ENV 551, PDD 551, UST 551 and UST 651.


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  • UST 752 - Environmental Policy/Admin

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. A comprehensive, interdisciplinary introduction to the values, preferences, and economic interests that underlie the formulation of environmental policy. Local, regional, state, national, and global issues are examined and characterized with emphasis on the national and state levels. Cross-listed with PDD 552.


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  • UST 753 - Environmental Planning II

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Prerequisite: UST 553 or permission of the instructor. An advanced course designed for students with knowledge of ecological processes or relevant environmental fields. The course features regional ecological infrastructure and landscape scale. Typical topics include watershed management, land-use change and ecological impacts, and regional open space and habitat preservation. The course provides an opportunity to apply planning processes and techniques such as suitability analysis, GIS mapping, risk assessment, or environmental impact assessment through a project exercise. Cross-listed with PDD 653.


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  • UST 755 - Environmental Risk and Decision- Making

    (4 credits)
    This course surveys the fundamental concepts involved in environmental risk evaluation and risk-based decision-making. Topics include risk assessment, risk management strategies, modeling, catastrophes, uncertainty, and risk perception. Issues arising from differences in expert and lay cognitive frameworks in the use of science for decision making are highlighted. The course also covers the psychological, economic, political, ethical, and legal ramifications of risk-based policy and administrative decision making.


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  • UST 760 - Neighborhood Planning

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. The process and techniques for the creation and implementation of neighborhood development plans with an emphasis on Cleveland neighborhoods, neighborhood organizations, and neighborhood planning. An introduction to the local government organizations and private institutions that support neighborhood planning and federal, state, and local programs that fund neighborhood planning and development programs. Students participate in field research on a selected neighborhood project. Cross-listed with PDD 660.


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  • UST 761 - Legal Developments in Housing

    (4 credits)
    Analysis of the evolution of housing and community development legislation, programs, and policies in metropolitan America, with emphasis on special topics.


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  • UST 762 - Urban Housing Policy

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Focuses on the evolution of urban housing policy, the policies which shape the existing housing system, and proposals for modifying housing policy and programs. Housing policy developments are related to broad ideological and political changes since the 1960s. Considers major aspects of the current housing situation, including financing, production, affordability, preservation, and discrimination. Cross-listed with PDD 662.


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  • UST 771 - Political Phl & Public Admin

    (4 credits)
    Examines the writings of major political philosophers and the way in which they have helped shape discourse in public administration. Students become more aware of the character of the presuppositions regarding the nature of a state, which undergird the writings of various public administration scholars. Ideas regarding the composition, authority, and engagements of government and administration, as well as the rights and obligations of citizens, are discussed drawing on original writings from different schools of philosophy, including rationalism, empiricism, positivism, utilitarianism, romanticism, pragmatism, idealism, analytical philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism. Students are encouraged to see how these ideas can be discerned in the public administration literature and how they affect the way in which the character and tasks of contemporary public administration are viewed. Cross-listed with UST 831.


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  • UST 800 - Urban Theory

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Acquaints students with the approaches used by the social sciences in examining urban problems. Faculty from the fields of political science, public administration, economics, sociology, and planning participate jointly in presenting and discussing their diverse conceptual and research approaches to the analysis of urban problems.


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  • UST 802 - Logic of Inquiry

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Doctoral-level seminar focusing on the paradigmatic (metatheoretical assumptions of Public Administration theorists). The course examines classifications of such assumptions and their implications for the conduct of research and the structure of findings. Different schools of thought in public administration are examined paradigmatically.


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  • UST 803 - Quant Res Mtd I

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Examines statistical models designed to assess a single outcome or criterion variable: bivariate and multiple regression; N-Way and factorial ANOVA; repeated measures ANOVA; and analysis of covariance of the General Linear Model. Examines the analysis and interpretation of a variety of data sets using each of these procedures.


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  • UST 804 - Quantitative Research Methods II

    (4 credits)
    Focuses on statistical models that assess multiple outcome or criterion measures; multivariate multiple regres-sion; and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). In addition, a section of the course explores the internal structure of data with procedures such as factor analysis, cluster analysis, and multidimensional scaling.


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  • UST 805 - Qualitative Research Methods in Urban Studies

    (4 credits)
    In this survey course, students examine various qualitative research techniques accompanied by examples of their application in papers published in professional journals. Students design and present a project applying one of the qualitative methods studied or proposing a new approach.


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  • UST 806 - Res Mtd Urb Stu

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Provides a basic understanding of methods for conducting empirical social science research. Covers the process of social science research, the conduct of the enterprise, obstacles to empirical research, analysis and interpretation of data, and ethical issues in social science research.


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  • UST 810 - Economic Development Seminar

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. The empirical and theoretical field of economic development of advanced industrial economies. Review of economic development literature and current practice. Required seminar for major or minor field in Economic Development.


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  • UST 820 - Sem Hou Pol/Pro

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. A review and analysis of federal, state, and local housing policies and programs in the United States since the 1930s. Key policy issues and the economic, political, and social factors which affect policy outcomes. Required seminar for major or minor field in Housing and Neighborhood Development.


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  • UST 830 - Pub Adm Seminar

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Explores the literature of public administration. How major pieces of literature relate to the period in which they were written and to the intellectual traditions on which the authors built. Economic, political, and social factors affecting major policy issues. Required seminar for major or minor field in Public Administration/Budgeting.


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  • UST 831 - Political Phl & Public Admin

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. Examines the writings of major political philosophers and the way in which they have helped shape discourse in public administration. It seeks to help students become more aware of the character of the presuppositions regarding the nature of a state, which undergird the writings of various public administration scholars. Ideas regarding the composition, authority, and engagements of government and administration, as well as the rights and obligations of citizens, are discussed drawing on original writings from different schools of philosophy, including rationalism, empiricism, positivism, utilitarianism, romanticism, pragmatism, idealism, analytical philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism. Students are encouraged to see how these ideas can be discerned in the public administration literature and how they affect the way in which the character and tasks of contemporary public administration are viewed. Cross-listed with UST 771.


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  • UST 833 - Public Finance Seminar

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): UST 603  or equivalent. Examines how scholars in public sector economics and budgeting think and write about important ideas in public finance, including the economic role of government in society, efficiency and social equity, public choice in democratic government, budgetary politics and processes, the role of analysis in government decisions, the principles of taxation, and fiscal federalism. Special attention is paid to reading and discussing the classic literature in the field. The philosophical assumptions that undergird this literature are explored in order to provide a critical appreciation of the way in which public finance scholars view the world, politics, society, and the nature of knowledge. Also, the nature of the activity of research in public finance is examined.


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  • UST 835 - Org Theory for Public Admin

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses. An intensive review of major milestones in the organizational literature that have influenced public administration theory and practice. Theoretical perspectives include classic-bureaucratic, scientific management, human relations, sociotechnical, leadership, constructionist, and post-modern. Emphasis on developing a critical perspective and understanding the impact and implications of organizational theory for public administration.


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  • UST 893 - Independent Study

    (6 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 895 - Doctoral Research

    (12 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 896 - Prospectus

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 897 - Readings in Urban Studies

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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  • UST 899 - Dissertation

    (12 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate students, Nondegree graduates ineligible to enroll in 600/700/800 level graduate courses.


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