Risk and Resilience – Required Courses 2019

For students entering Fall 2019

First Year

4 units          GSD 3348       The Idea of Environment
4 units          GSD 5291        Theories for Practice in Conflict, Crisis, and Recovery
24 units        Electives or Distributional Electives *

Second Year

Coursework Track:
16 units        Electives or Distributional Electives *

Or

Thesis Track:
16 units        Electives or Distributional Electives*
8 units          GSD 9304        Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies

*Students are required to fulfill the following distributional electives from approved lists of courses:
4 units of methodology
4 units of mapping or representation

Distributional Electives

Methodology Distributional Electives
DES-3378 Place-Based Design Inquiry
SES-5215  Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
SES-5216  Analytic Methods: Qualitative
MIT 11.220  Quantitative Reasoning and Statistical Methods for Planning I
MIT 11.328  Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City
MIT 11.523  Fundamentals of Spatial Database Management

Mapping and Representation Distributional Electives
VIS-2129  Spatial Analysis and the Built Environment
SCI-6322  Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
MIT 11.205  Introduction to Spatial Analysis
MIT 11.328  Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City
MIT 11.523  Fundamentals of Spatial Database Management

This is a preliminary template of courses that have been taken by students in the past. Students may work individually with the Risk and Resilience Area Heads to craft a set of methodology courses specific to their research plans.