Minor in Environmental Planning

Our students learn to integrate environmental, social and economic factors into natural resource conservation and urban design.

The minor in environmental planning allows students to explore the intersection of the natural and social sciences with urban and regional development. Environmental planning facilitates decision-making to carry out urban planning, urban design, land development and natural resource conservation with consideration given to environmental, social, political and economic factors. Environmental planners are central to inspiring more creative and ecologically informed plans and help mitigate the detrimental effects of development.

  • Learn how to facilitate decision-making to promote environmentally sound growth
  • Understand the frameworks necessary to achieve sustainable outcomes
  • Complement your undergraduate studies with a minor

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A minor in environmental planning allows you to enter the workforce with additional skills and knowledge alongside your major area of study.

 
$74,300

Median annual salary for urban and regional planners; $69,300 median annual salary for landscape architects

(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2019)

 

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Broaden your employment possibilities with additional knowledge and skills gained from a minor

Academic Plan & Requirements

To earn the minor in environmental planning, students must complete a minimum of 18 credits in environmental planning-related courses. Of those 18 credits, at least 9 must be taught within the ENVD program.

The environmental planning minor provides non-ENVD students experience with the process, technical skills and professional practice of environmental planning. Students are required to take courses offering training in software (primarily Geographic Information Systems/GIS), theoretical and conceptual materials, and studio work. The program is directed toward students interested in obtaining a graduate degree in planning, urban design or landscape architecture, and those wishing to work interdisciplinarily across their major using the tools of planning and landscape architecture. 

Course options range under the following categories:

  • Theory and history
  • Technology
  • Design studio
  • Electives

Community & Involvement

We offer students many opportunities to network with peers and faculty, further their studies, and get the most out of their undergraduate experience.