URBP 204B
Course Learning Objectives
The department has approved official course learning objectives for this course. Learning objectives support the overall goal of each course and describe what information students should know, or what skills students should have learned by the end of the course.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Identify the overall strengths and weaknesses of a broad range of quantitative modeling methods (as described in LO #2) and assess which model(s), given resource constraints, are most appropriate for solving a given urban and regional planning problem.
- Construct and apply the following quantitative models:
- Population and employment projections;
- Gravity models;
- Multivariate regression analysis, including both ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and binary logistic regression analysis
- Identify the policy implications of modeling results.
- Present quantitative data and results in text and graphic formats so that is easily comprehensible to the target audience.
- Critique journal articles or reports that use the above-mentioned models to assess whether the methods were appropriate to address the research question and whether the conclusions were drawn logically from the results.
