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PLAN 545: Healthy Communitites Seminar

The Healthy Communities Seminar is an elective Planning and Public Health course that explores the interconnections between the fields of planning and public health and equips planners with the ability to plan healthy communities. Next offering spring 2010.

Final Semester Reports:
2007 - Urban Agriculture Resource Book: Model Urban Farm & Community Food Centers, Best Practices

PLAC 544: Community Planning

Final Semester Report:
2007 - Active Living and Social Marketing Plan Proposal

PLAC 401: Neighborhood Planning Workshop

The Neighborhood Planning Workshop is the capstone course for the undergraduate major. As a planning application course (PLAC), it emphasizes the team-based work planners are expected to perform throughout their careers, specifically examining planning at a neighborhood scale in partnership with a community organization.

* 2008 Recipient of the Academic Community Engagement (ACE) Course Fellowship Award and ACE Teaching Assistant Fellowship Award

Final Semester Reports:
2008 - Foreclosure Policy Recommendations for the City of Charlottesville
2007 - Healthy Communities: Access
** The Main Event
(best presented on explorer and safari)
** Access to Health Facilities

2006 - Safe Routes to School, Johnson Elementary
2006 - Fifeville Lighting Assessment
2003 - Fifeville 2003 & Beyond: Expanding Community Development Reoles for Transformation Ministries First Baptist Church in the Fifeville Area

PLAC 557: Environmental Impact Statement

This course is intended to provide students with a broad background of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and the subsequent laws and administrative processes from which developed the environmental impact assessment, particularly the environmental impact statement. The course introduces a framework for conducting environmental impact assessments, technological methods for predicting changes in environmental characteristics, considerations involved in interpreting significance of predicted impacts, techniques for accomplishing public participation, and practical considerations for writing environmental impact statements as applied to a local project. Students will also discuss the future of Environmental Impact Assessments, Health Impact Assessments and other similar tools.

Final Semester Report:
2008 - Environmental Impact Assessment for proposed McIntire Botanical Garden

PLAN 492: Planning Practice-Internship

	Courses PLAN 545: Healthy Communitites Seminar The Healthy Communities Seminar is an elective Planning and Public Health course that explores the interconnections between the fields of planning and public health and equips planners with the ability to plan healthy communities. Next offering spring 2010. Final Semester Reports: 2007 - Urban Agriculture Resource Book: Model Urban Farm & Community Food Centers, Best Practices PLAC 544: Community Planning Final Semester Report: 2007 - Active Living and Social Marketing Plan Proposal PLAC 401: Neighborhood Planning Workshop The Neighborhood Planning Workshop is the capstone course for the undergraduate major. As a planning application course (PLAC), it emphasizes the team-based work planners are expected to perform throughout their careers, specifically examining planning at a neighborhood scale in partnership with a community organization. * 2008 Recipient of the Academic Community Engagement (ACE) Course Fellowship Award and ACE Teaching Assistant Fellowship Award Final Semester Reports: 2008 - Foreclosure Policy Recommendations for the City of Charlottesville 2007 - Healthy Communities: Access ** The Main Event (best presented on explorer and safari) Access to Health Facilities 2006 - Safe Routes to School, Johnson Elementary 2006 - Fifeville Lighting Assessment 2003 - Fifeville 2003 & Beyond: Expanding Community Development Reoles for Transformation Ministries First Baptist Church in the Fifeville Area PLAC 557: Environmental Impact Statement** This course is intended to provide students with a broad background of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and the subsequent laws and administrative processes from which developed the environmental impact assessment, particularly the environmental impact statement. The course introduces a framework for conducting environmental impact assessments, technological methods for predicting changes in environmental characteristics, considerations involved in interpreting significance of predicted impacts, techniques for accomplishing public participation, and practical considerations for writing environmental impact statements as applied to a local project. Students will also discuss the future of Environmental Impact Assessments, Health Impact Assessments and other similar tools. Final Semester Report: 2008 - Environmental Impact Assessment for proposed McIntire Botanical Garden PLAN 492: Planning Practice-Internship	Home News People Research Publications Courses Contact
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