PLAN 107 - How Plans are Made: Processes, Stages, and Strategies

This course will explore how planning translates knowledge into action across a wide range of contexts, scales, time-frames, and sub-fields. Students will learn the stages of plan-making, including the identification of planning problems, articulation of the overall vision, goals and objectives, formulation of scenarios and options, selection of the preferred course of action, and evaluation and monitoring. Students will learn how to identify transferable lessons and precedents from the existing literature. The course will also explore how planners work with the public and elected officials to formulate, communicate, and build support for a proposed course of action.