Planning and Development Graduate Certificate

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Plan how land's used

Expand your knowledge of land-use assessment, urban design and planning.

Discover concepts and theories to use in your current career or elsewhere.

Certificate in Planning and Development

Gary Michelfelder, Graduate Director
Temple Hall, Room 318; Phone 417-836-3171
GaryMichelfelder@MissouriState.edu

Program description

This certificate program is designed to provide graduate-level education in Community and Regional. It is anticipated that this program would be attractive to students in other MSU graduate programs in the sciences and social sciences as well as working professionals. Planning concepts and theory are especially useful for students pursuing degrees in Public Administration, Political Science, and Geospatial Sciences. The Community and Regional Planning certificate program emphasizes concepts and theories surrounding land use assessment, urban design, neighborhood planning, transportation planning, and tourism and planning and development.

Admission criteria

The Community and Regional Planning Certificate program is open to all persons holding a BS, BA, MS, or PhD degree. Students must, of course, satisfy all prerequisites for any courses they take in the program; or they must obtain instructor approval to waive specific prerequisites. Once admitted to the program, the student must take a minimum of four courses as designated and approved by the program coordinator and must have an average cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or better to receive the certificate.

Completion requirements

Students must have an overall grade point average of 3.00 for completion of the certificate program.

Required Courses (13 hours)

Course Code Course Title Credit Hours
PLN 671 Land Use Planning 3 hrs
PLN 672 Community Planning Practicum 4 hrs
Six hours from PLN courses
above 600 or 700 level.
  6 hrs

Other courses approved by the program coordinator may be substituted for any of the above listed courses on a case-by-case basis. The certificate program coordinator must approve the substitution prior to enrolling in any course.

Completion requirements

Students must have an overall grade point average of 3.00 for completion of the certificate program.

Apply online

Apply to this program through a central application: GradCAS. Review the sections above before you begin.

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