Common Courses for Urban and Regional Planning
[Common Courses for Urban and Regional Planning] help students acquire the basic knowledge and techniques needed for urban and regional planning generally. There are 4 basic/applied courses based on lectures on urban and regional planning, 3 courses providing seminars to learn methods for finding and solving problems in urban and regional planning, and 3 courses providing seminars to acquire architectural design skills; a total of 10 courses.
| Course name | Course description | Target year |
|---|---|---|
| Principles of Urban Planning | In this course, students will acquire extensive knowledge and wisdom of the nature and challenges of cities, infrastructure and buildings that make up cities, methods for their planning, and their future development through diverse cases in Japan and other countries. | 2 – 4 (recommended in 2nd-year) |
| History of Urban Planning | This course will provide an overview of the history of cities and architecture from ancient times to the present, and clarify the characteristics of various types of space in each era, as well as their relationships with political, economic, social, and technical backgrounds. It will also discuss the preservation of the historical environment. | 2 – 4 (recommended in 2nd-year) |
| Empirical Studies on Urban Regional Planning | In this course, students will study various cases of urban and regional planning and town development to understand the processes and methods of urban and regional planning in the real world, and discuss necessary insights and conditions for success. | 2 – 4 (3rd & 4th-year prioritized) |
| History of Urban Planning Thought* | In this course, students will address basic topics on urban and regional planning, and discuss the ideas and words of the people involved in such planning in detail. | 2 – 4 |
| Seminar in Urban and Regional Planning | In this course, students will work for specific areas or cities. Through finding problems with city/regional planning and preparing drawings, they will understand the current challenges of regional arrangement. | 2 – 4 |
| Seminar in Information Systems: Urban and Regional Planning | In this course, students will learn basic methods for creating and analyzing spatially expansive information (such as maps and drawings) using specialized applications (CAD, GIS). | 2 |
| Internship on Urban and Regional Planning | In this course, students will acquire practical problem-finding and -solving abilities through training at government offices, research institutes, companies, or non-profit organizations related to urban and regional planning. | 3 – 4 |
| Fundamental Drawing | This course aims to have the students acquire basic knowledge related to the drawing of essential architectural plans necessary for the designing of houses. | 2 |
| Practice for Architecture and Urban Design I | This course aims to have the students acquire the basic knowledge and technique of house designing and planning by learning the basics of wooden buildings through designing wooden houses. | 3 – 4 |
| Practice for Architecture and Urban Design II | This course aims have students acquire more advanced designing methods and techniques using basic techniques of design drawing that they have learned. | 3 – 4 |
*: Provided by collaborative staff (from the College of International Studies)
