| Methods and analysis in urban and regional planning | Data collection and forecasting methods, problem identification method, project identification method, comprehensive planning methods, sustainable urban planning methods, environmental impact assessment method, strategic planning, and SWOT analysis method. |
| Planning Studio and GIS Skills | Knowledge and skills to prepare sustainable and comprehensive master plans |
| Environmental planning and ecological design of the city | Identify environmental policies and strategies for addressing environmental problems and climate change, the importance of environmental planning for the city and environmental assessment of projects in the city |
| Environmental Planning and Sustainable Development | Defining sustainability and planning mechanisms that achieve sustainability, preserve the environment, reduce and control pollution, and plan our cities in a sustainable and intelligent manner. |
| Sustainable urban land use planning | Interpret land use planning in response to changing conditions and knowledge of environmental systems, political forces, and evolving economic development. It applies technical and political skills, problem solving, and creativity in the process of creating a shared vision of the future. It must propose solutions to reconcile multiple and often conflicting goals and address social justice. The concepts and methods that planners apply today will have lasting consequences, and decisions and plans today will continue to influence development, transportation, and community development patterns in the future. |
| Urban and Rural Housing Planning / Policies and Programs | Raising students' efficiency in housing planning, by identifying the basic elements in urban and rural housing planning, which include: land, financing, construction materials and labor, and infrastructure and superstructure services. The semester will include: calculating housing and population expectations, forecasts, indicators, housing stock, housing need, housing densities, housing market, urban and rural housing standards, and sustainable housing, in addition to including new topics, such as: gender in housing standards, and choosing residential sites. At the end of the semester, housing policies and strategies in some countries of the world, and the national housing policy in Iraq will be identified. |
| Principles of Environmental Planning and Ecological Design | Familiarity with the principles and foundations of environmental planning and its use in urban planning and achieving sustainability |
| Urban Planning Project | Defining and teaching students the mechanisms and methods of planning residential areas, the mechanisms and methods of planning cities, analyzing designs, developing the basis for them, developing alternatives, analyzing and choosing the best alternative. It is a group project for students, and therefore they are taught the mechanisms of group work. |
| Urban Services System Standards | Providing the student with knowledge of the sustainability standards of the urban services system and providing them to users in the city. |
| GIS Skills Development and Studio | Preparing master plans for sustainable residential neighborhoods, master plans for sustainable cities and regional impacts |
| Environmental Sustainability | Learn about the principles of environmental sustainability and sustainable environmental standards. |
| Socio-economic and social spatial analysis | It aims to identify the importance of studying place and spatial analysis of various phenomena in the city through understanding and visualizing the city as a living, growing system. In addition to analyzing the relationship between place and various activities and their impact on the overall life in cities to achieve the dimensions of sustainability economically, socially and materially. |
| Urban and rural housing planning | Identify the basic elements of urban and rural housing planning, study the standards of urban and rural housing, sustainable housing, the residential environment, and selection of residential sites. |
| Environmental Planning and Sustainability | Raising awareness of our cities' environmental problems, treating them and mitigating their negative effects |
| Rural Planning and Development | Definition of planning for rural development and sustainability of available resources to achieve food security |
| Sustainable land use planning | Definition of urban planning and land use and sustainable environmental standards in land use distribution |
| Environmental Planning and Sustainability | Enhancing knowledge of the principles and basics of environmental planning and smart cities, how to control liquid, gaseous and solid pollutants, the method of environmental assessment of projects and the basic design of cities. |
| urban transport planning | Providing the student with the most important concepts related to sustainable urban planning and transportation and the most important mathematical models used. |
| urban economics | This course aims to study cities and urban economy and their role in achieving urban agglomeration savings, analyzing urban activities and their location within cities, and studying and analyzing the size distribution of cities to achieve the sustainability factor. |
| Modeling and Operations Research | Building planning models to solve social, economic and environmental problems |
| Basics in Urban & Regional Planning | Definition of urban and regional planning, its foundations, methods and emergence |
