Program: Land Use Planning Concentration, BS - Southern Oregon University - Modern Campus Catalog™

Apr 08, 2025

2012-13 Catalog

Core courses cannot be used to meet upper division elective requirements within this concentration.

Land Use Planning Concentration Core

(24 credits)

Lower Division

select one of the following (4 credits)

GEOG 101 - Introduction to Geography: The Rogue Valley 4 credits
GEOG 107 - Introduction to Human Geography 4 credits
GEOG 108 - Global Lands and Livelihoods 4 credits

Required Upper Division

(20 credits)

GEOG 350 - Urban Environments 4 credits
GEOG 439 - Land Use Planning 4 credits
GEOG 440 - Planning Issues 4 credits
ES 451 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 4 credits
or
GEOG 451 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 4 credits
ES 492 - Field Geography 4 credits
or
GEOG 492 - Field Geography 4 credits

Upper Division Social Science, select two of the following

(8 credits)

ANTH 462 - Cultural Resource Management 4 credits
ES 421 - Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development 4 credits
ES 423 - Sustainability and Natural Resources 4 credits
GEOG 360 - Global Issues in Population, Development, and the Environment 4 credits
GEOG 437 - Conservation in the United States 4 credits
SOC 310 - Community Studies 4 credits
SOC 420 - Environmental Sociology 4 credits
SOC 450 - Social and Cultural Change 4 credits

Upper Division Natural Sciences, select two of the following:

(8 credits)

ES 386 - Environmental Data Analysis 4 credits
or
GEOG 386 - Environmental Data Analysis 4 credits
ES 327 - Energy and Climate Change 4 credits
ES 435 - Water Resources 4 credits
ES 475 - Environmental Modeling 4 credits
ES 453 - Introduction to Remote Sensing 4 credits
or
GEOG 453 - Introduction to Remote Sensing 4 credits
ES 457 - Introduction to Global Positioning Systems 4 credits
or
GEOG 457 - Introduction to Global Positioning Systems 4 credits
G 360 - Environmental Geology 4 credits
GEOG 433 - Soil Science 4 credits
GEOG 481 - Geomorphology 4 credits
GEOG 482 - Climatology 4 credits

Internship/Practicum

(2 credits)

ES 496 - Environmental Studies Honors Capstone II 2 to 3 credits
or
GEOG 496 - Internship
OR
ES 409 - Practicum 1 to 15 credits