Program Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

- Five courses in spatial analysis and GIS
- Two courses in a selected urban content area
- One elective course
- One capstone project course

PREREQUISITES
Students enrolling in the MUSA program are expected to have a basic familiarity with GIS (including ESRI's ArcGIS or ArcView programs) and descriptive/inferential statistics. For those who lack such background, MUSA and PennDesign offer introductory GIS and statistics courses during the second half of the Summer semester.

SAMPLE CURRICULUM
Fall
CPLN 667: Introduction to Spatial Analysis and Modeling
LARP 743: Cartographic Modeling Seminar
Urban content course
Urban content course

Spring
CPLN 668: Spatial Visualization and Simulation
LARP 745: Advanced GIS Applications
CPLN 646: Spatial Analysis for Public Health
ESE 502: Advanced Spatial Analysis

Summer
MUSA 700 Individual Capstone Project