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Abroad is an elective course for both graduate students and
undergraduate students in the Urban and Regional Planning program.
Students from other disciplines, particularly architecture and public
administration, would find the course relevant, and are welcome.
The course addresses the following “knowledge
component” criteria of the Planning Accreditation Board:
4.3.1 Structure and Function
of Urban Settlements – by focusing on cities and their changing
social and physical manifestations;
4.3.2 History and Theory of
Planning Processes – by focusing on the history of both physical and
social planning in Amsterdam and environs; and,
4.3.3 Administrative, Legal
and Political Aspects of Plan-Making and Policy Implementation – by
focusing on planning systems.
The
course also addresses the “value component” criteria of the Planning
Accreditation Board, specifically 4.3.12 Diversity of Views and Ideologies;
4.3.13 Conservation of Significant Social and Cultural Heritages Embedded in the
Built Environment; and, other value component criteria aimed at planning
practice.
The
course has four specific objectives:
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first is to expose students to urban social and physical structure in a
series of urban places.
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The second is to expose students to
both historical and current aspects of urban development and planning.
The historical is examined by identifying and understanding artifacts
and comparing and contrasting great planning ideas, plans, and
implementations throughout the past (e.g., non-secular symbolism, the
physical infrastructure of river towns, various architectural styles).
This is accomplished by visiting both governmental and academic
institutions.
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The third objective is to simulate
non-tourist life in great urban places.
This includes reliance on non-motorized (walking) and motorized
(transit, intra-regional and regional trains) modes of transportation;
visiting world-class museums, venues, and academic institutions; and,
learning about local culture.
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The
fourth objective is to provide interaction with professional (at various
levels of government, in public and private research organizations) and
academic personnel in urban and regional planning and closely related
disciplines (Architecture, Geography, Civil Engineering, and GIS
Technology). Through
interaction with faculty and students, it is the hope that participants will
use this opportunity to develop their own contacts and begin patterns of
professional associations.
For information about other Florida Atlantic University
International Programs:
http://www.fau.edu/goabroad/
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