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The Environmental Planning curriculum provides a broad educational experience emphasizing an understanding of planning and management of the physical and cultural environments. The program strives to consider our relationship with the land, in an effort to foster ethical planning solutions. A program that that promotes sustainability regardless of location, strives for social equity and envisions a post-industrial landscape that provides ecological services.

Program Learning Goals

  1. Understand, analyze, and incorporate natural features and systems in planning and land management practices.
  2. Analyze and incorporate social, cultural, and behavioral factors in planning.
  3. Understand the history of environmental planning and policy including contemporary and sustainable practices and their impact on people and the land.
  4. Evaluate implications of institutions and policy in terms of their ability to shape sustainable regions. 
  5. Effectively communicate with the public, communities, and policymakers on issues of land stewardship, environmental justice, and social well-being.

Requirements (120 credits)

Environmental Planning (573) Major Requirements

Cannot use planning electives twice within the major.
Cannot have as a grade more than one D.

Please see SEBS Core Curriculum Requirements

SEBS Core Curriculum Codes

Requirement V1: (3) Biological Sciences

  • 01:119:103 Principles of Biology (4)

Requirement V2: (6) Physical Science

3 credits:

  • 01:450:101 Earth Systems (3)
  • 01:460:100 Planet Earth (3)

Plus 3 credits from

  • 11:670:102 Introduction to Climatology (3)                            
  • 11:670:101 Introduction to Meteorology (3)

Requirement V3: (4) Quantitative Methods

  • 01:640:115 Pre-calculus College Math (4) or
  • 01:640:111 Pre-calculus I (2) and
  • 01:640:112 Pre-calculus II (2)

Requirement V4: (39) Environmental Planning Core

  • 11:573:202 Environmental Issues (3)
  • 11:573:231 Fundamentals of Environmental Planning (3)
  • 11:550:231 Introduction to Environmental Design (5)
  • 11:573:232 Fundamentals of Environmental Geomatics (3)
  • 11:573:233 Fundamentals of Environmental Geomatics (lab) (1)
  • 11:550:237  Landscape Drawing & Drafting (3)
  • 11:550:241 Construction I: Site Engineering (4)
  • 11:550:345 2D Digital Design & Drafting (1.5)
  • 11:550:347 2D Digital Design Communication (1.5)
  • 11:550:331 Environmental Planning Studio (5)
  • 11:216:101   Introduction to Ecology (3)

Plus 3 credits from 11:216:101:

  • 11:550:340 Planting Design (4)
  • 11:573:362 Intermediate Environmental Geomatics (3)
  • 11:550:442 Sustainable Landscape Technologies (3)

Plus 3 Credits from (Capstone Experience Options):

  • 11:573:409 Challenges and Opportunities (3)
  • 11:573:413 Open Space planning and Management (3)

Requirement V5: (5) Environmental Sequence

3 credits from:

  • 11:776:102 Soils and Society (3)
  • 11:776:440 Soils Fertility (3)
  • 11:216:272 Dendrology (4)
  • 11:550:233 Landscape Plants I (3)

Plus 3 credits from:

  • 11:375:101 Introduction to Environmental Science (3)
  • 11:573:445 Ecological Design and Stewardship (3)
  • 11:216:332 Plant Ecology (4)
  • 11:216:351 Principles of Ecology (3)

Requirement V6: (3) History / Theory Sequence

  • 11:550:230 Environmental Design Analysis (3)
  • 11:573:302 Ecological History of North America (3)

Requirement V7: Planning Electives

Resource Management  or

  • 11:375:202 Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)
  • 11:375:307 Solid Waste Management and Treatment (3)
  • 11:573:362 Intermediate Envi. Geomatics (3)
  • 10:762:335 Women Inequality & Public Policy (3)
  • 10:762/832/971:202 Designing Healthy Cities (Studio format) (3)
  • 11:373:362 Natural Resource Economics (3)
  • 11:373:362 Environmental Economics (3)
  • 11:573:462 Advanced Geomatics (3)

Systems Planning and Management or

  • 10:762:233 Urban World (3)
  • 10:762/833/843:210 Principles of Public Policy (3)
  • 10:762/971:201, 10:762:306 Intro Urban Planning and Design (3)
  • 10:762:413 Urban Revitalization (3)

Specialized Focus

  • 11:550:234 Landscape Plants II (3)
  • 11:550:235 Herbaceous Plants in the Landscape (3)
  • 11:573:437 Spatial Data Visualization (3)
  • 11:216:474 Advanced Remote Sensing Analysis (3)

Requirement V8: (18)

Approved Minor (18)

Total with minor (85)

Rev 09-2024

Program Director

Frank Gallagher
848-932-5167
Blake Hall, Rm. 115
gallagher@sebs.rutgers.edu