Urban Development Professional Certificate

• Are you interested in learning more about influences shaping economic development and urban growth?
• Do you want to understand what factors contribute to the quality of life in urban settings?
• Are you interested in learning more about public, private and not for profit sector economics?
• Do you want to be more prepared for professional opportunities in urban development, planning or public management?
• If so, then the NEW Professional Certificate in Urban Development may be for you! Earn credit toward an Urban Development Professional Certificate or three credit hours toward your M.P.A. Degree!

Park University's Hauptmann School for Public Affairs, in conjunction with Mid-America Regional Council, is proud to announce the creation of a new three-credit hour professional certificate program in urban development. Current Park M.P.A. students can complete the courses, earning a professional certificate in the process, and apply those credits toward their 36-hour M.P.A. degree. Community participants will receive a Professional Certificate in Urban Development upon completing all three hours of course work.

Urban Development Professional Certificate

The Professional Certificate Program is focused on the public/private urban development agenda. Current local and national projects provide the lessons for the coursework. Case study, speakers, and simulations are some of the methods employed to explain the guiding principles of urban development. Readings highlight significant technical and historical perspectives. The heart of the program, though, is discussion and direct contact with professionals active in urban development - Urban developers, public officials, design professionals, lawyers, planners and community members. More than "how to," the curriculum is designed to present the right questions for consideration. These sessions are designed to balance the philosophical with the practical application of urban development. The successful candidate emerges with a balanced perspective of the integration of public, private, and non-profit trends that direct urban growth.

Learning Outcomes

Students who have successfully completed this course will:

• Learn the fundamentals of urban public policy planning.
• Comprehend the real estate development planning process.
• Understand the professional culture of public, private and tax-exempt developers.
• Demonstrate how the planning context influences urban development projects and policies.
• Understand the political, social and economic agenda for urban development.
• Know how the urban development process is responsive to various styles of leadership and how to work effectively with those leadership styles.

Course Instructors

Jim Scott, Architect & Urban Planner and Kay Barnes, Former Kansas City Mayor

Guests will include local and national speakers from the public, private and not for profit sectors. Course work will focus on recent development project experience and will include discussions, case studies, and simulations, with a culmination in the creation of a new redevelopment tool prototype.

Session Dates

The Professional Certificate/Graduate course in Urban Development is a series of two courses:

• The Urban Development Agenda (PA503 GS)
  1 cr. hr. - two Saturday sessions in Spring 1, 2008)
  
  Saturday, February 23, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
  Saturday, March 8, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

• Urban Development Tools and Techniques (PA503 GS)
  (2 cr. hrs. - four Saturday sessions in Spring 2, 2008)
  
  Saturday, April 19, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  Saturday, May 10, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Completion of a PA503 GS and PA503 GS concludes in a Professional Certificate in Urban Development (enrollment via MARC) or 3 hours of graduate credit (enrollment for admitted graduate students only).

Cost

• Tuition per graduate credit hour will be $360.00 per credit hour
• Professional Certificate registration - via MARC only (without graduate credit)
• $140 for The Urban Development Agenda
• $260 for Urban Development Tools and Techniques
• $350 for the full professional certificate program (both courses)

* Continental breakfast and lunch included at all sessions. Parking is not included in the fee.

Classes will be held at the Downtown Campus of Park University located in the Commerce Tower Building at 911 Main, Suite 900, Kansas City, MO.

Contact

Marion Wolpers at (816) 559-5644 or marion.wolpers@park.edu for information.

Michelle Concepcion at (816) 559-5619 or michelle.concepcion@park.edu for information and enrollment in the graduate program.

Beverly Wilson at (816) 701-8234 or bwilson@marc.org for information and enrollment via MARC for the Professional Certificate in Urban Development.

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