The Department of City and Regional Planning offers a minor in city and regional planning that is open to all majors in all colleges at UC Berkeley. Each year about 80 students complete the minor. The city planning minor provides students with knowledge on how cities function, how urban processes might be researched, and how urban environments can be transformed through planning, policy, design, and social action. 

A minor cannot convey the full scope of City Planning. Instead, various combinations of courses can, we feel, provide a particular slant or emphasis on planning issues or processes.

Students interested in completing the minor must file a “Declaration of Intent to Minor” form with the staff advisor. At the completion of coursework, a “Notification of Minor Completion” form must be filed with the College. Forms are available at the departmental office. FAILURE TO FILE THE FORMS PRIOR TO GRADUATION WILL JEOPARDIZE RECEIPT OF THE MINOR.

Prerequisites

Students are required to complete two prerequisites from the following list of courses. The two courses must be from a different subject area (Economics, Statistics, and Environmental Design). Prerequisites may be taken on a Passed/Not Passed basis. If economics is taken at another college (and transferred in), it should be either microeconomics or micro and macro together.

Students must meet the prerequisites for courses with an asterisk (*). Please consult with the department and instructor in question.

Economics

• ECON 1 Introduction to Economics (4), or
  ECON 2 Introduction to Economics (4)
• ENVECON 1 Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy (cross-listed with ECON C3) (4)*
• CY PLAN 113A Economic Analysis for Planning (3) (If taken to satisfy the economics prerequisite, this course cannot be applied towards List 1)
   

Statistics

• STAT 2 Introduction to Statistics (4)
• STAT 20 Introduction to Probability and Statistics (4)*
• STAT 21 Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business (4)*
• STAT 25 Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers (3)*
• STAT 131A Statistical Inferences for Social and Life Scientists (4)
   

Environmental Design

• ENV DES 1 People and Environmental Design (3) (CED majors only)
• ENV DES C169B American Cultural Landscapes, 1900 to Present (4)
   

Required Courses

CY PLAN 110 Intro to City Planning (4) (F,Sp), plus:

Four more courses: At least two from List 1 (planning courses), and no more than two from List 2 (planning-related). All five upper-division courses must be taken for a letter grade.

List 1: Planning Courses

CY PLAN 111 Intro to Housing (3) (Sp)
CY PLAN 112A The Idea of Planning (3) (F,Sp)
CY PLAN 113A Economic Analysis for Planning (3) (F)
CY PLAN 113B Community and Economic Development (3) (Sp)
CY PLAN C114 Introduction to Urban and Regional Transportation (3) (Sp)
CY PLAN 115 Urbanization in Developing Countries (4) (F)
CY PLAN 116 Urban Planning Process – Studio (4) (F)
CY PLAN 118AC The Urban Community (4) (F,Sp,Su)
CY PLAN 119 Planning for Sustainability (3) (F,Sp)
CY PLAN 120 Community Planning and Public Policy for Disability (3) (F)
CY PLAN 140 Urban Design: City-Building and Place-Making (3) (F)
CY PLAN 190 Advanced Topics in Urban Studies (1-4) (topics vary by semester)

List 2: Planning-Related Courses**

AFRICAM 107 Race and Public Policy (3)
DEV STD C100 History of Development and Underdevelopment (4) (cross-listed as GEOG C112)
ECON 121 Industrial Organization and Public Policy (4)
ECON 125 Economics of the Environment (4)
ECON 131 Public Sector Microeconomics (4)*
ECON C171 Economic Development (cross-listed as ENVI ECON C151 (4)*
ENE, RES 100 Energy and Society (4)
ENE RES 151 Politics of Energy and Environmental Policy (4)
ENV DES 100 The City: Theories and Methods of Urban Studies (4)
ESPM 102D Resource and Environmental Policy (4)
ESPM 165 International Environmental Politics (4)
ESPM 168 Political Ecology (4)
GEOG 110 Economics Geography of the Industrial World (4)
GEOG 111 Local and Regional Transformation (4)
GEOG 159AC The Southern Border (4)
GEOG 181 Urban Field Study (4)
LGL STDS 182 Law, Politics, and Society (4)
POL SCI 181 Public Organization and Administration (4)
PUBPOL 184 The Economics of Public Problem Solving (4)
SOCIOL 124 Sociology of Poverty (4) (also taught as SOCIOL 124AC)
SOCIOL 125 Urban Sociology (4) (also taught as SOCIOL 125AC)
SOCIOL C126 Populations Issues (cross-listed as DEMOG C126) (4)
SOCIAL 172 Development and Modernization (4)
UGBA 105 Introduction to Organizational Behavior (3)
UGBA 180 Introduction to Real Estate and Urban Land Economics (3)
UGBA 183 The Financial Management of Real Estate Resources (3)
UGBA 192 Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and Consulting Projections (3)

**Students may petition the department for additional courses to satisfy the List 2 requirement if they can demonstrate that the course has significant content relevant to urban planning.