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PLAN 346Advanced Tools for Planning: Public Participation and Mediation

Units
0.50
Faculty
Environment
Subject
Planning

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2025–26.

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

A number of approaches and techniques such as Public Participation, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation are used extensively in modern planning. This course addresses these techniques and critically explores their background, rationale, application, and use in contemporary community planning within a modern democratic society.

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Students must be in level 3B or higher
    • Enrolled in H-Planning

Antirequisites

  • Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in any of the following:
    • PLAN246 - Tools for Public Participation (0.50)

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Reviewed on UW Flow

59% liked it72% easy67% useful

From 22 ratings and 1 comment on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • This course is essentially common sense for planners. Lectures were boring and skippable due to the nature of the content and tutorials were engaging with well structured discussion activities. I would not recommend taking this course unless you have to because the content is very trivial.

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