Urban Studies, Graduate Certificate (Boston)

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Core Requirement

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Complete 4 semester hour course:

• PPUA 6201 — The 21st-Century City: Urban Opportunities and Challenges in a Global Context

Focus Area Selective

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Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • LPSC 7312 — Cities, Sustainability, and Climate Change
  • PPUA 5230 — Housing Policy
  • PPUA 5231 — Transportation Policy
  • PPUA 5233 — Contemporary Community Development
  • PPUA 5234 — Land Use and Urban Growth Policy
  • PPUA 5235 — Participatory Community Planning Methods
  • PPUA 5236 — Introduction to Real Estate Development for Urban Policy Makers
  • PPUA 5262 — Big Data for Cities
  • PPUA 5265 — Global Urbanization and Planning
  • PPUA 5266 — Urban Theory and Science
  • PPUA 6532 — Building Resilience into Local Government
  • SUEN 6340 — Topics in Urban Environmental Design

Elective

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Complete 4 semester hours in the following range (selected by advisement):

PPUA 5000 to PPUA 7999

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • Any PPUA course numbered 5000–7999

GPA requirements

• 12 total semester hours required Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under urban-studies-graduate-certificate-boston, and the official page is the authority.