Urban design courses are offered throughout the College of Environmental Design, and the Master of Urban Design degree program draws from these. See the links below for course descriptions and terms offered.

Architecture Courses
City and Regional Planning Courses
Environmental Design Courses
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Courses
Visual Studies Courses

Urban Design Program Curriculum

Five courses constitute the core of the Master of Urban Design degree program:

• ENV DES 201 Urban Places Advanced Studio — an intensive studio involving collaborative work on problems that are large in scope, yet require attention to spatial organization and design details; projects often involve the exploration of design options for areas under consideration by governmental agencies.
   
• ENV DES 251 Urban Places Seminar — an introduction to the program, the faculty resources, and issues arising in current urban design practice.
   
• CY PLAN 298 Urban Places Economic Module, which introduces key economic issues and concepts.
   
• ENV DES 252 Urban Place Studies, a seminar that brings all candidates in the program together to develop and discuss with core faculty their individual thesis projects.
   
• ENV DES 253 Urban Places Thesis Studio, offered during the summer and led by an urban design practitioner with part-time involvement of MUD faculty. The summer thesis studio provides students with guidance leading to completion of the thesis by late summer and presentation to faculty and students during orientation week of fall semester. NOTE: Because this course is offered only during the summer, the UC Berkeley General Catalog does not list it. For general and semester-specific descriptions of ENV DES 253, see Environmental Design Courses on the Architecture website.
   

An additional studio is selected from one of the graduate studios in the three departments. As advanced candidates, MUD students are expected to take a leadership role in these studios, assisting with the preparation, conduct, or evaluation of the studio and relating it to the content of the Master of Urban Design program. Students must also complete a course that offers instruction in methods for urban design practice or research; a course in urban design history or theory; and elective courses related to the thesis topic and selected in consultation with MUD faculty. See the MUD Program Statement for further information, including sample programs.