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How to Survive Your First Planning Commission Meeting
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This course prepares new planners to confidently navigate their first planning commission meeting and understand the role these meetings play in the broader planning and decision-making process.
Public Speaking, Communication, and Influence for Planners
New
Planners regularly present complex information to decision-makers, community members and project teams, yet many early-career planners receive little training in how to communicate ideas clearly, persuasively and confidently. This course helps planners strengthen their professional voice by developing skills in storytelling, public speaking and persuasive communication.
Own Your Worth: Salary Negotiation & Strategic Career Growth for Planners
New
This course equips new planners with practical strategies to navigate compensation conversations, build a professional portfolio, and plan their long-term career growth.
The First Five Years: A Practical Land Use Toolbox for New Planners
This practical course offers an essential "land use toolbox" for early-career planners working in both the public and private sectors that outlines how core planning processes, from permits and development reviews to public meetings and everyday counter interactions, actually work in practice.
Roadways for People, Part 1
Using Portland's I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project as a central case study, Lynn Peterson and co-instructor Elizabeth Doerr explore why and how we need a more inclusive, people-centered transportation planning process.
Landscape Design for Social Sustainability, Part 1
Discover how and why the built environment succeeds or fails at supporting thriving, diverse communities, and how designers can create mechanisms that allow communities to enjoy and improve their environments to suit their needs and desires.
Interpreting Places and Spaces
Interpretive media can dramatically enhance people's experience of place. Learn how to develop and execute a plan that brings the stories tied to places to life.
The Theory and Practice of Culture and Placemaking
Learn about the complex issues at play in the interaction between culture and place: the urbanization process, the historical significance of tools used by urban planners, early American urban theories, and the power of social movements.
American Architectural Styles
This course traces the history of American architectural styles and discusses how to identify styles for historic preservation projects.
Historic Preservation: How-to Guide
This course discusses how planners contribute to the preservation of historic resources.
The Government’s Role in Historic Preservation
This course takes an in-depth look at the role of federal, state, and local governments in historic preservation. The course examines regulations, funding, and tax relief.
Introduction to Historic Preservation
This course will introduce planners to the basics of historic preservation including the beginning of the historic preservation movement, the legal precedent for preservation, and the theories that determine how preservation occurs. This course will use case studies to further illustrate the topics discussed.
Mindfulness And Self-Care for Urban Planners
This course will walk participants through three mindfulness exercises and offer prompts for reflection and self-care.
Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Urban Planning Work
This course will help you understand what emotional intelligence is, what the component parts of emotional intelligence are, and understand some strategies to try in each of these areas.
Organizational Behavior at the Individual Level
Understanding the behavior of others can enhance the performance of your organization. This course highlights some of the individual-level behavior at the heart of work dynamics.
Working in Teams
Learn two key frameworks around team dynamics and think critically about how they can be applied effectively at work.
Working From Home for Planners
The future of work and the future of education are location independent, and we’re all better off because of it. This course focuses on general remote work tips and three remote work topics at the forefront of urban planners' minds as working from home becomes a new normal in the field of urban planning: productivity, teamwork, and public meetings.
Early Career Strategies for Successful Planning Practice
This course is for planners with a few years of practice under their belts and looking to become more effective in their careers and derive greater satisfaction from their work.
Launching (and Relaunching) Your Planning Career
The planning profession offers many types of work in support of important public objectives, so planners face many choices about launching and re-launching their careers. This course is based on the idea that planners are most effective when their jobs are well-matched with their characteristics and goals. We will discuss everything that a prospective or junior planner needs to know to chart a fulfilling career.
Leadership in Planning: Strategic Decision-Making in the Public Interest
At the end of this course, you will understand how to turn planning theory into practice in the real world.