Urban and Regional Studies Minor

Catalog Year 2025-2026

Program Requirements

Core

This course will identify and analyze global social, economic, political and environmental problems impacting community viability and explore the full range of solutions to these problems. The course will view communities as complex, sustainable organisms and bring together the works of the great minds working on sustainability.

Prerequisites:
none
Goal Areas:
GE-05, GE-10

Introduction to community leadership-elected, professional, or voluntary-and the skills and values which support it.

Prerequisites:
none
Goal Areas:
GE-09, GE-11

A basic working knowledge and vocabulary of urban design concepts and techniques in an applied problem solving context.

Prerequisites:
none

Electives

Select 9 credits from URBS upper division courses, or see advisor for approval.

Degree
Minor

Total Credits
18

Locations
Mankato

Career Cluster
Government and Public Administration