Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Curriculum & Courses

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This course provides a basic introduction to both financial and managerial accounting topics. It concentrates on concepts and relationships involved in preparing and analyzing financial statements and some basic decision making for internal financial managers. This course is not for Pre-Business students; it will not meet the Eller College of Management requirements for professional admission.

Typically offered: Spring
Units: 6

Typically offered: Fall
Units: 3

A comprehensive course that focuses on sustainable design through energy conservation, passive solar architecture, and advanced computer energy simulation techniques. Develop thorough understanding of "Green Building Design"; currently the fastest growing segment of the building industry. Master advanced computer energy analysis using the industry standards DOE's eQUEST software. Learn about the LEED "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" Green Building Rating System for New Construction and become a LEED-Accredited Professional.

Typically offered: Spring
Units: 3

This course is an introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for undergraduate students interested in design and the built environment as well as graduate students in landscape architecture. This class will focus on three core usage domains of GIS: data management, communication/visualization, and analysis.

Typically offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4

This course surveys the law governing business organizations. We examine the fundamental legal characteristics of the six most common U.S. business forms: sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies. Topics include formation, management, liability exposure, fiduciary duties, financing, and taxation.

Typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3

The course will focus on the concepts underlying approaches to protecting the environment, using the common law and various environmental statutes primarily as examples of the different approaches to environmental protection. The course will emphasize pollution control law by studying the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The course will also study liability for contamination through a more detailed study of the Superfund law. The course will also discuss the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act. We will look not only at traditional regulatory mechanisms, but also at the opportunities for market and non-regulatory solutions. The course has a practical problem-based focus. Students should be able to use the analytic tools and knowledge gained in this course to develop solutions to a wide variety of environmental problems.

Typically offered: Spring
Units: 3

It is important "to do the right thing." But how can anyone tell what "the right thing" is? What makes some actions right and some wrong? This course is an overview of ethics, which is the field of philosophy that examines these questions. We examine three main ways of thinking about ethics: those that focus one the outcomes of actions, those that focus on the nature of the actions themselves, and those that focus on the character of the one who acts. Students will gain a foundational knowledge that will serve as a solid background for more advanced work in ethics, as a resource for thinking about moral issues, and as a piece of general education valuable for understanding practical aspects of human life.

Typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3

This course is designed to teach students about normative ethics in the context of the workplace and the business world. We will discuss ethical questions concerning corporate responsibility, preferential hiring and affirmative action, advertising practices, corporate whistleblowing, and environmental responsibility.

Typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3

Students in this course will investigate and seriously consider how and why we should live as morally responsible members of an ecological community. Students will explore philosophical responses to questions such as: What makes something natural? What value is there to non-human entities? What obligations do we have to each other regarding the environment? How should we respond to catastrophic environmental change?

Typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3

Public participation is both ethically and legally a fundamental component of planning decision making processes. This course explores a wide variety of public participation methods and tools, what to expect from working with the public, and how to handle disputes that arise.  Students will be given a variety of public participation tools and then utilize them as a team in a real life public participation project over the semester. This course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students with no prior background or experience in the fields of public participation, negotiation, or dispute resolution.

Typically offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3

This course introduces students interested in the Bachelor of Science in Real Estate major to the connections between real estate and society, focusing on examples of its effects on social, natural, and economic systems. The goal is to raise consciousness of how the field involves both tremendous opportunities to produce good outcomes and responsibilities to avoid bad ones. 

Typically offered: Fall
Units: 1

This course introduces students to theories of optimal land use, urban form, and urban design patterns at the site, community, and regional scale. Students will also gain a deeper understanding of the physical, economic, and social processes that shape these patterns of urban development, with an emphasis on the role of the real estate industry, designers, and public planning in those processes.

Typically offered: Spring
Units: 3

Typically offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3

The focus of this course is the analysis of capital formation in commercial real estate and examination of the tools real estate investors use to make investment decisions. The course includes sections on capital sources, investor concerns and hurdles, data sources, investment fundamentals and tools, discounted cash flow modeling, and pre-tax equity distributions for a range of partnerships.

Typically offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3

There is an interest in assuring that real estate development of the future is more socially, environmentally, and economically responsible than in the past. Emerging research shows that responsible real estate development can produce competitive short-term and superior long-term financial returns. This introductory course will review sweeping changes occurring in real estate development.

Typically offered: Fall
Units: 3

This course provides students a review of the legal principles that inform and regulate the due diligence and entitlement process that is the basis of every successful real estate transaction.

Typically offered: Fall, Summer
Units: 3

The objective of the course is to introduce real estate development students, and those from other majors and programs, to construction management as a component of the real estate development process. The course will introduce students to the fundamentals of building construction, project budget estimation, project management, scheduling, and project leadership. The course will focus both case analyses and discussions of best practices. Industry experts will provide insight and help guide the course substantively. The course will ask students to analyze decisions made by real estate developers about construction management and communicate clearly about construction management and its role in mitigating risk and enhancing project returns.

Typically offered: Fall
Units: 3

This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of urban design and urban form and the role these play in placemaking in cities, towns and suburbs. The course will cover the work of urban design theorists, variables that impact a community's sense of place, challenges and opportunities in modern city design, and methods to design more livable and sustainable cities.

Typically offered: Spring
Units: 3

This is a core course that focuses on suite of economic approaches that broaden planners' and developers' ability to make informed economic decisions from the perspective of the public sector.

Typically offered: Fall
Units: 3

This course offers students a chance to prepare and present a professional real estate development project that showcases their ability to synthesize their learning, including broad and comprehensive knowledge of the discipline, its methods, and processes. Under the supervision of a faculty member and in collaboration with members of the real estate community, students will identify a project, conduct an analysis and synthesis of information, and prepare a final report and presentation

Typically offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4

The focus of this course is on sustainable design and planning and is a framework for how we plan, build, and live in our built environments in a way that better balances environmental, social, and economic demands.

Typically offered: Fall, Summer
Units: 3

This course introduces students to the essential methods of visual communication and ordering systems through a series of interrelated exercises. Techniques such as investigative sketching, freehand drawing, and digital design communication are considered in relation to their potential to reveal the world around us with a heightened sense of awareness. Issues such as place, material, structure and enclosure will be explored empirically and conceptually at a variety of scales and applications. Importantly, this is an interdisciplinary based studio; students enrolled in this course will have the ability to engage in a variety of different design strategies.

Typically offered: Spring, Summer
Units: 3

This course explores effective oral communication within the professions of the built environment with the intent of increasing student understanding of and competency in oral communication in preparation for entry into the world of practice.

Typically offered: Spring
Units: 3

This course introduces students to the analytical skills necessary for success in the real estate industry, including data manipulation, descriptive statistics, probability, geospatial methods, and financial analysis.  Students will also learn how to communicate technical analyses clearly to diverse audiences. 

Typically offered: Spring
Units: 3

This course introduces students to the analytical skills necessary for success in the real estate industry, including data manipulation, descriptive statistics, probability, geospatial methods, and financial analysis.  Students will also learn how to communicate technical analyses clearly to diverse audiences.

Typically offered: Spring
Units: 3 

This course introduces students to the web of federal, state, and local policies that affect housing development, emphasizing how policies influence the sustainability and affordability of new residential properties and communities. Students will learn about the role of federal tax policy, environmental regulations, state housing agencies, and local land use and development restrictions on new housing development. 

Typically offered: Spring
Units: 3