RCP-affiliated courses provide students the opportunity to apply skills to a project identified as a high priority for advancing community resiliency and sustainability. Graduate, professional, and advanced undergraduate students can participate in RCP by enrolling in an RCP-affiliated course (listed below), or by connecting an individual thesis, capstone, field experience, culminating experience, internship, or directed study to an RCP project.
Students work with local government staff—and, where appropriate, other community stakeholders such as local businesses, nonprofit organizations, and residents—to develop their projects. Because RCP courses work closely with the community to make sure the work is aligned with their needs, there is great potential for student work to be implemented. Contact RCP staff at [email protected] to discuss connecting your individual work to an RCP project!
Spring Semester 2022 Courses
PA 5041: Qualitative Methods for Policy Analysts (Instructor: Greta Friedemann-Sánchez)
- Washington County: Improving Access to County Parks
PA 8081: Urban Planning Capstone (Faculty Advisor: Greg Lindsey)
- UMN American Indian Tribal Nations Relations Office: TRUTH: A Strategic Analysis of the Morrill Land Grab in Minnesota
- City of Little Canada: Creating and Sustaining Equity through Pedestrian, Bicycle, and Public Transit Connectivity
- Towerside Innovation District: Building Equity and Economics for a Resilient Towerside
PA 5261: Housing Policy (Instructor: Tony Damiano)
- City of Maplewood: Developing a Single-Family Housing Rehabilitation Program
CEGE 4103W: Capstone Design for Environmental Engineering (Faculty Advisor: TBD)
- City of Edina: Developing Tools to Inform Water Resource Management
PA 8991: Independent Study (Faculty Advisor: Frank Douma)
- SouthWest Transit: Understanding the History & Evolution of Transit System Governance in the Twin Cities Region
- Washington County: Policy Planning for Electric Vehicles
PA 5190: Designing Change for the Public Sector (Instructor: Sandra Wolfe Wood)
- Hennepin County: Preparing for the Future of Elections
Fall Semester 2021 Courses
PA 5211: Land Use Planning (Instuctor: Fernando Burga)
- Towerside Innovation District: Building Equity & Economics for a Resilient Towerside
IE 5801: Industrial and Systems Engineering Capstone Project (Instructor: William Cooper)
- Hennepin County: Preparing for the Future of Hennepin County Elections
PA 5232: Transportation Policy, Planning and Deployment (Instructors: Hui Kong and Frank Douma)
- SouthWest Transit: Understanding the History and Evolution of Transit Governance in the Twin Cities Region
- SouthWest Transit: Assessing the Effectiveness of Transit System Governance Policy in the Twin Cities Region
RCP Fellows
- University of Minnesota American Indian Tribal Nations Relations: Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing (TRUTH): A Strategic Analysis of the Morrill Land Grab in Minnesota