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Curriculum of MSRE

The proposed MSRE extends the current real estate curriculum by adding more strategic components and providing more depth of training. Through a combination of lectures, outside speakers, workshops, assignments and projects, students will learn how to apply a more holistic approach to real estate decisions. The objective of this more comprehensive training will be to ensure that students can make decisions that are sensitive to the private market, but also reflect the needs of the local community and region, as well as the nation and other countries confronting similar challenges.

 

The MSRE curriculum has been prepared with particular attention to ensuring the core and elective fields of study, as well as individual courses, provide adequate coverage of environmental sustainability and other considerations that should be incorporated in responsible development and management of urban markets. At the same time, the diversity of students, faculty, and disciplines represented in the elective courses drawn from across campus will afford students the opportunity to develop a greater appreciation for the principles, theories, practices and mindsets emanating from different perspectives and related disciplines. The interdisciplinary nature of the MSRE and the commitment to continue the Specialization in Real Estate will advance the goal of offering meaningful, collaborative interdisciplinary programs. The combination of the two related programs, and the depth of concentrated studies in electives taken in other disciplines, will ensure that MSRE students are provided with the intellectual diversity and variety of perspectives required for more informed real estate decision-making.

 

Having created relationships with colleges, departments, programs, centers and faculty across campus, academic advisors will be able to work with interested students to configure specialized programs of study that allow students to prepare for careers in such fields as environmental management and sustainable development. Such hybrid paths may focus on such fields as affordable housing, sustainable development, Brownfield redevelopment, urban infill, transportation-oriented development, transferable development rights, land banking, historic preservation, and scenic easements. It should be noted that many of these topics are covered by existing urban planning and real estate courses, but not in the depth necessary to prepare students to take leadership positions in championing such causes in the public and private sectors upon graduation.

 

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