REAL ESTATE

DEVELOPMENT

The current Real Estate Development Graduate Certificate program is being redesigned to better meet the challenges and needs faced by today's Real Estate Industry.

We are also developing alternate Graduate Certificate programs to better serve the Real Estate Community. For announcements and status of the upcoming graduate programs please continue to visit our website.

Courses
(in our current Graduate Certificate Program include)

URSP 664
Real Estate Development for Planners
Course provides an introduction to the real estate development process from the point of view of the private entrepreneurial developer. It will include the steps in undertaking a real estate development from the initial concept to the property management and final disposition, the basic financial and tax concepts underlying real estate development, a review of national housing policy, including public-private partnerships, and solving specific real estate development problems using financial spread-sheets.
(3 credits)

PUAF 752
Managing Differences: Resolving Conflict and Negotiating Agreements
Enhances the student's negotiation and leadership skills for managing differences between individuals and groups. Students study the nature of conflict, learn how to handle two and multiparty conflicts, exerting leadership where there are no hierarchy leaders, and explore the impact of facilitators and mediators on the negotiating process.
(3 credits)

ENCE 662
Introduction to Project Management
Course examines the principals of project administration procedures, specifically addressing the project administration responsibilities of the project manager/project engineer in engineering, design, and construction industries.
(3 credits)

URSP 688J
Principles of Urban Design
An introduction for students pursuing careers in the built environment but not enrolled in a design degree program. The course will be taught by an architect who will introduce students to principles and language
of design, for understand formal and spatial types, as well as graphic conventions, drawings, models and diagrams in order to read and communicate effectively with design professionals.
(3 credits)

University of Maryland College Park
Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
Office of Professional Studies
1130 Mitchell Building, First Floor
College Park, Maryland 20742-3210

Phone/Fax Numbers:
Email: spoc@umd.edu
Phone: 301-314-3572
Toll-free: 1-877-989-7762
Fax: 301-314-7915