BS Real Estate Major Elective Courses (Description)

Description

ECO 310 Urban Economics - back to overview
This course discusses the economic rationale for the existence of cities and urban areas. Location decision-making by both firms and households is analyzed with attention given to the resulting land values, land rents, population density gradients, and urban land use patterns. We study models of the supply and demand for housing, the measurement and determination of house value, and the corresponding problems of segregation, housing abandonment, property taxation, and public housing. Other urban problems such as poverty, crime, and transportation are also discussed. PREREQUISITE ECO 105.

FIN 330 Investments: Securities and Markets - back to overview
Investment principles and problems. Development of the student's perception of risks and opportunities in investment instruments and markets; description of the markets and their operations; effects of current financial events upon the various markets. PREREQUISITE: FIN 202, 310 and 320.

GEO 241 Geographic Information Systems I - back to overview
An introduction to the fundamentals of geospatial information processing. Special topics include spatial data types, map design, and animation. Instruction is accomplished through lectures and hands-on computer lab exercises. PREREQUSITE: LSP 120 or HON 180.

GEO 242 Geographic Information Systems II - back to overview
An introduction to the fundamentals of GIS. Special topics include the capture, processing, manipulation, analysis, and output of geographically referenced information. Instruction is accomplished through lectures and hands-on lab exercises using Arcview GIS. PREREQUISTE: GEO 241 or Instructor Consent.

GEO 243 Remote Sensing - back to overview
An introduction to the fundamentals of remote sensing, the analysis of the earth through air or space borne sensors. Special topics include image interpretation, image processing, change analysis, environmental monitoring, and photogrammetry. Instruction is accomplished through lectures and hands-on lab exercises using IDRISI. A small lab fee will be charged. PREREQUISITE: ISP 120 or HON 180.

GEO 244 Geographic Information Systems III - back to overview
Project-driven course requiring a sophisticated understanding of GIS. Urban and environmental applications PREREQUISTE: GEO 242 or Instructor Consent.

GEO 321 Chicago: Spatial Anatomy of a Metropolis - back to overview
An advanced exploration of Chicago's urban geography, focusing in detail on topics such as historical geography, industrial change, community development, housing, architecture, transportation and Chicago's status as a "global city."

GEO 333 City Problems and Planning - back to overview
An introduction to the development of urban design and futuristic models of cities, emphasizing the role of city planning in preventing or solving urban problems.

HAA 280 History Premodern of Architecture - back to overview
Social, economic and political history of European and Mediterranean architecture, from Paleolithic times to the 1789 French Revolution. Topics include: classicism, the status and role of the architect, social struggle, patronage and architectural technologies. Formerly ART 370.

HAA 281 History of Modern Architecture - back to overview
World architecture from the 1789 French Revolution to the present. Examines the influence of industrial, technological, political and social change in the development of modernist and post- modernist architecture. Formerly ART 371.

HAA 370 Contemporary Architectural Theory and Practice - back to overview
Study of contemporary debates in architecture and urban planning. The student explores economic, social and political aspects of architectural theory through a case study of a contemporary monument or city plan. PREREQUISITE: previous 100 or 200 level art history course or permission of instructor. Formerly ART 372.

HAA 380 Chicago Architecture and Urbanism - back to overview
This course investigates contemporary historiographic debates and new archival evidence surrounding research on Chicago architecture and urbanism. In addition to participating in lectures/discussions of HAA 380, students also meet separately to discuss scholarly debates as well as their individual research proposals, as appropriate for graduate level work. (Cities Minor) PREREQUISITE: previous 100 or 200 level art history course or Instructor Permission. Formerly ART 339.

HSP 398 Special Topics in Hospitality (Hospitality Real Estate) - back to overview
Content and format of this course are variable. An in-depth study of current issues in hospitality. Subject matter will be indicated in class schedule. PREREQUISITE: check class schedule.
(Note: topic must be approved for use by the Department of Real Estate)

HST 240 History of Chicago - back to overview
A history of the founding and development of Chicago from a frontier village to a major industrial, commercial and cultural center. This course will focus on the changing lives of ordinary Chicagoans.

HST 254 American Urban History - back to overview
An overview, examining American urban life from the early days of the colonial seaport, through the rise of the smoky industrial center, to today's troubled "dual city" of the rich and the poor. Throughout the course, we will focus on how urbanization affected the lives of the diverse peoples who experienced it. We will also explore the ways in which city life contributed to changes in American culture, and to a greater acceptance of social and cultural diversity.

PPS 301 Public Policy and the Political Process - back to overview
Policy decisions almost inevitably involve politics. This course explores the politics of the urban political machines that dominated politics in many cities for a long time, though some might argue that thay actually had few policy interests other than to remain in power. The course examines how power is distributed in cities, and how it is used to get at the various problems confronting cities. That is, how politics affects policy. The course studies the players in the game of policy formation, and the policy process itself. While the focus may be on cities, make no mistake, politics impacts environmental policy decisions and the process of making those decisions as well.

PPS 302 Implementation of Environmental and Urban Policy - back to overview
This course examines how organizational cultures affect decision making. The course focuses on bureaucratic decision making routines, the implementation of policy, and the factors which advance or constrain effectiveness in urban and environmental settings. The course also explores the utility of various communication strategies and techniques in executing policies.

PPS 330 Sustainable Development - back to overview
Sustainable development has become a crucial concept in international initiatives worldwide. It attempts to foster policies that balance the need for economic development with practices that promote healthy communities and ecosystems. This course is based on the instructor's theoretical and practical experience gathered in developed and developing countries under market and command economies conditions. Special emphasis is placed on the role of institutions, both governmental and non-government, in shaping economic policies that are compatible with environmental health. The course pursues the objective of preparing students to understand main environmental problems and to generate solutions for these problems from a multidisciplinary perspective.

PPS 350 Critical Issues in Urban Development - back to overview
The course examines the central issues in contemporary urban development: how urban restructuring, demographic shifts, new patterns of production and consumption, as well as technologically-grounded globalization processes, shape urban development. The course emphasizes the changing context of urban development policy and explores various critical approaches to interpreting urban development policy.

PPS 351 The Policy and Politics of Urban Housing - back to overview
The course looks at housing as a social symbol and material commodity, with particular emphasis placed on the role of government in the direct provision of housing and the indirect support of home ownership, as well as housing policies indirect impact on neighborhood development, race relations, and metropolitan surburbanization.

PPS 359 Topics in Urban Studies - back to overview
This course provides an in-depth examination of various urban studies issues.
(Note: topic must be approved for use by the Department of Real Estate)

PSC 322 Urban Policymaking - back to overview
U.S. urban policy is examined from the standpoints of program objectives, the mechanics of their evaluation, and the barriers to their effective implementation.

SOC 245 Urban Sociology - back to overview
Study of urban growth and its impact. Topics explored include metropolitan development and change, population density, diversity and migration, urban life styles, urban institutions and important societal trends. Local, national and cross-national cases are examined. Formerly SOC 345.

RE 354* Real Estate Valuation - back to overview
Real Estate Valuation. Introduction to the appraisal process. Basic approaches to valuation analysis including both residential and income properties. This course includes the income capitalization methods and complex valuation assignments. PREREQUISITE: FIN 310 and RE 350.

RE 398* Special Topics in Real Estate - back to overview
Special Topics in Real Estate offers an in-depth study of current industry-related issues. Content, format, and prerequisites vary by section. Subject matter will be indicated in the class schedule.

SOC 347 Class, Power and Decision Making in the City - back to overview
Analysis of decision-making in urban settings. Considers the role of class disparities, power, citizen protest and community participation in urban outcomes.

SOC 348 The City in the Future - back to overview
Alternative views of urban structures and social life in the post-industrial age. Considerations of the implications of energy, different technologies, future shock and social trends.

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*Course designation has changed from FIN to RE. Effective fall quarter 2009.