UCLA General Catalog 1971-72 - Registrar - UCLA

104 / OOI.LEGES , scrooLS , GRADUATE DIVISION
learning skills, capabilities for carrying out evaluations of complex urban phenomena,
and critical interactive skills.
An important aspect of the student's education in the Urban Planning Program
is the opportunity that will be afforded for internships and applied research. A
number of projects of applied research will be initiated. Students may also wish
to work on a part-time basis outside the University under an internship arrangement
for which a limited number of credit units can be given. Normally, such
students will meet periodically with a professor to discuss problems arising from
their work experience as well as prepare scholarly papers on aspects related to
their internship program. Still other students may wish to take part in on-going
campus research. Current planning research includes work on cognition and
problem-solving through man-computer interaction, decision-making and computer
urban design transportation, simulation, social regional indicators economic for monitoring forecasting metropolitan models, and compara- developme
tive urbanization.
This emphasis on professional and field work experience will tend to modify
traditional role distinctions and establish a collegiate relationship among students
and faculty. As a result, students will share responsibility, together with their
professors, for the development of the curriculum and related activities in the
Program.
The Degree of Master of Arts
In terms of a formal curriculum, at the Master's Degree level, the student
elects one of the four Areas of Policy Concentration (APC). The first, Urban-
Regional Development Policy, concerns planning for broad social and economic
development objectives of urban-regional systems and subsystems. It constitutes
a framework for policy planning in housing, urban renewal, urban-regional economic
growth, and urbanization in industrializing countries, among others.
The second, Public Service Systems, refers to planning for functional programs
contributory to urban and regional development, such as transport, education,
housing, health, and recreation. The third, Environmental Systems Planning and
Management, deals with the development of an evolutionary framework and
the achieving of environmental quality in the context of accelerated social,
scientific and technological changes. Work is offered in a fourth area of Social
Development Policy, dealing with human development policy, communityneighborhood
planning.
development, and development of tools and methods for social
In addition to the Area of Policy Concentration, students will take courses
from the general or Core curriculum. Core courses are distinguished from those
in the Area of Policy Concentration in that their subject matter cuts across different
specializations. Work is offered in four areas of core specialization:
planning theory, urban development
foundations.
theory, planning methods, and behavioral
The number of required formal courses is small, being restricted to introductory,
survey-type courses. In concert with his faculty advisors, the student is able
to arrange for a personally tailored course of degree study, including a minor of
courses taken outside SAUP. In developing his curriculum, opportunity for in.