This course introduces the theories, methodologies, and legal framework of planning and allows students to experience the planning process through hands-on project work in the region. The first part of the course introduces the literature and illustrates it through analysis and discussion of case studies. In the second section of the course, students apply their skills through the study of an actual planning problem. The project work draws on students' past curricular and extracurricular activities and makes use of interdisciplinary knowledge and methodologies. Teams of students, working in conjunction with a client in the community, research and propose solutions to a current environmental planning problem. The course culminates in public presentations of each team's planning study. This course also includes field trips and computer labs. Format: discussion/project lab. Requirements: midterm exam, short written exercises, class presentations, workshop presentations, final group report. Prerequisites: Environmental Studies 101 and Biology/Environmental Studies 203, or permission of instructors. No enrollment limit (expected: 25). Open only to juniors and seniors. Required course for students wishing to complete the Environmental Studies Program.