Green infrastructure includes water, habitats, parks, soils, and forests essential for healthy communities and building community resiliency. Working in teams, students conduct field work and determine community needs and opportunities for a community's urban forests, water, recreation, and historic and cultural resources. Students then complete a strategic green infrastructure plan for a city.

Elective courses offered at the request of faculty or students to provide an opportunity for internships, fieldwork, or independent study. Prerequisite: Planning faculty approval of topic.

The course focuses on planning, preservation, and practice within rural places and among underrepresented populations. The coursework includes assignments that employ new skills or knowledge related to course objectives. Students will be involved in co-learning with residents of rural communities in and outside of the classroom. The course may include a service-learning component for approximately 25-30% of overall instructional time.

Students act as a consultant team to develop sustainable planning and design strategies for sites which rotate each year.

Applied independent study.