Bachelors Program in City Planning

Bachelors Degree Program in City Planning

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INTRODUCTION

The field of City Planning attempts to investigate and provide solutions to planning problems with a view towards shaping the current and future urban environment. Thus, city planners develop such solutions by moving systematically through a time-related process requiring defining goals, analyzing information, formulating plans, setting priorities, and designing programs of actions.

To deal with the complex problems of urban environment, city planners require considerable skills, knowledge and insight, plus the ability to understand the social, economic, physical, and political interrelationships, which characterize urban goals and problems. Beyond the nature of such plans, city planners must also be prepared to make day-to-day decisions that affect the well being of urban inhabitants. The ability to surmount the increasing challenges of planning can be greatly assisted by considering Geographic Information System (GIS) and related information technology, early in planning education.

Undergraduate city planning education leads to diverse careers through professional employment or graduate studies in the same field or related professions. In the public sector, city planners are found in municipalities and numerous government agencies. Increasingly, city planners are moving into various private sector jobs, such as consultant firms, utility companies, development companies, financial institutions, national and regional commercial corporations, research organizations, and special interest groups. Being able to work in these different areas is thus assisted by the knowledge that GIS is an intermediary platform that mediates various disciplines and professions.

THE PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

The ultimate goal of this program is to provide students with a coherent understanding of contemporary planning, such as combining a good theoretical background with the dynamics of professional practices and the society at large. In addition to special technical skills, the program helps each student to acquire an interdisciplinary education that leads to an understanding of the physical and social environment, their problems, and their potentialities for enriching human life. The main objectives of the program are therefore:

– Offer a program leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in City Planning.

– Equip the prospective students with the professional capability to sustain and enhance the quality of life in cities and regions.

– Meet the growing demands in the local market for qualified graduates with GIS background.

THE PROGRAM

The Department of City and Regional Planning at KFUPM offers a program leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in “City Planning”. This degree is granted after the completion of 126 credit hours. The department is offering this program with two options:

OPTION I: B.S. in City Planning with Summer Training.

OPTION II: B.S. in City Planning with Coop.

The curriculum, in each option, consists of four major requirements: General Education requirements (40 credit hours for both options), Core requirements (74 credit hours for Option I; 65 credit hours for Option II), a Summer Training (for Option I only; 0 credit hours) or Coop (for Option II only; 9 credit hours), and elective courses (12 credit hours for both options).

General Education requirement courses focus on vital basic areas such as communication skills, mathematics, and natural sciences. Core requirement courses cover planning theory and history, planning workshops, environmental planning, policies and public works, land use and transportation, sustainable development and impact assessment, analytical methods, computer applications, as well as socio-economic dynamics of urban societies.

CITY PLANNING CURRICULUM WITH SUMMER TRAINING

COURSE TITLE LT LB CR COURSE TITLE LT LB CR
First Year (Preparatory)
ENGL 001		Preparatory English I	15 5 8	ENGL 002	Preparatory English II	15 5 8
MATH 001		Preparatory Math I	3 1 4	MATH 002	Preparatory Math II	3 1 4
PYP 001		Prep. Physical Sciences.	2 0 2	PYP 002	Prep Computer Sciences	0 2 1
PYP 002		University Study Skills	0 2 1	ME 003	Prep. Eng. Technology	0 2 1
pe 001		Prep Physical Education I	0 2 1	pe 002	Prep Physical Education II	0 2 1
			20 10 16			18 12 16
Total credits required in Preparatory Program: 31
Second Year (Freshman)
CP 101		Introd. to City Planning	3 0 3	ARC 100	Architectural Graphics	0 10 5
ENGL 101		English Composition I	3 0 3	ENGL 102	English Composition II	3 0 3
MATH 131		Finite Mathematics	3 0 3	MATH 132	Applied Calculus	3 0 3
PHYS 133		Principles of Physics	3 3 4	IAS 101	Practical Grammar	2 0 2
ias 111		Belief and its Consequences	2 0 2	ICS 102	Introduction to Computing	2 3 3
PE 101		Physical Education I	0 2 1	PE 102	Physical Education II	0 2 1
			14 5 16			10 15 17
Third Year (Sophomore)
CP 201		Planning Theory	3 0 3	CP 204	Land Use Planning	3 0 3
CP 202		Planning Laws and Leg.	3 0 3	CP 205	Urban Economics	3 0 3
CP 203		Intro to Spatial Database Systems	3 0 3	CP 206	GIS I	2 3 3
CE 260		Surveying I	2 3 3	CP 210	Planning Workshop I	1 9 4
STAT 211		Statistics for Business I	3 0 3	engl 214	Technical Report Writing	3 0 3
IAS 212		Professional Ethics	2 0 2
			16 3 17			13 12 16
Forth Year (Junior)
CP 301	Urban Survey Methods		3 0 3	CP 306	Quantitative Methods in Plan.	3 0 3
CP 302	Intro to Enviro Planning		2 0 2	cp 307	Transportation Planning	3 0 3
CP 303	Intro to Cartog. & Remote Sensing		2 3 3	CP 308	GIS II	2 3 3
CP 310	Planning Workshop II		1 9 4	CP 315	Planning Workshop III	1 9 4
ARC 353	Housing Policy & Design		2 0 2	ias 322	Human Rights in Islam	2 0 2
ias 201	Writing for Professional Needs		2 0 2
			13 12 16			11 12 15
Summer Session				CP 399	Summer Training	0 0 0
Fifth Year (Senior)
CP 401		Senior Plann. Proj. Prep.	1 0 1	CP 402	Sustainable Development	2 0 2
CP 410		Planning Workshop IV	1 9 4	CP 499	Senior Planning Project	1 9 4
CP 4xx		CP Elective I	3 0 3	ARC 482	Socio-cultural Factors in Design	2 0 2
CP 4xx		CP Elective II	3 0 3	xxx XXX	University Elective II	3 0 3
xxx XXX		University Elective I	3 0 3	ias 4xx	IAS Elective	2 0 2
ias 301		Oral Comm. Skills	2 0 2
			13 9 16