Curriculum for the RED Minor (Effective Fall 2024)
This is the curriculum required for all students that ENTERED UCSD Fall 2024 and later. Students who started at UCSD prior to Fall 2024 are held to the previous curriculum requirements and should check the RED Minor Requirements Prior to Fall 2024 for details.
The Real Estate and Development (RED) minor consists of eight courses (32 units). Students who wish to minor in Real Estate and Development may do so by taking three required lower division courses, four required upper division foundation courses, and one upper division elective.
Per Academic Senate policy, students may overlap a maximum of two upper division courses (8 UD units) between their major and minor.
All courses must be taken for a letter grade and students must earn at least "C-" in each course used for the minor.
Students can declare the minor using the Triton Student System (TSS).
Lower Division Requirements (12 Units)
- USP-005: Introduction to the Real Estate and Development Process
- USP-015: Applied Urban Economics for Planning and Development
- USP-025: Real Estate Principles and Analysis
Upper Division Requirements (20 units)
- Four Foundation courses
- One Upper Division Elective
Foundation Courses
Foundation courses provide the conceptual tools for the minor. Students are required to complete the following four (4) foundation courses:
- USP-124: Land Use Planning
- USP-151: Real Estate Planning and Development
- Prerequisite: USP-005
- USP-152A: Real Estate Development Finance and Investment
- Prerequisites: USP-015 and USP-025
- USP-150: Real Estate and Development Law and Regulation OR USP-153: Real Estate and Development
Market Analysis
Upper Division Elective
Students are to choose one (1) of the classes listed below. Be sure to check the catalog for any prerequisites.
- ECON-116: Economic Development
- ECON-125: Demographic Analysis and Forecasting
- ECON-131: Economics of the Environment
- USP-120: Urban Planning, Infrastructure, and Real Estate
- USP-137: Housing and Community Development Policy and Practice
- USP-138: Urban Economic Development
- USP-150: Real Estate and Development Law and Regulation (if not taken as a foundation class)
- USP-152B: Advanced Real Estate Development Finance and Investment
- USP-153: Real Estate and Development Market Analysis (if not taken as a foundation class)
- USP-155: Real Estate Development in Global and Comparative Perspective
- USP-158A: Advanced Special Topics in Real Estate & Development
- USP-159A: Real Estate University Challenge I
- USP-165B: Advanced Special Topics in Sustainability
- USP-169: Introduction to Green Building
- USP-170: Planning for Sustainable Communities
- USP-171: Sustainable Development
- USP-171GS: International Sustainable Development
- USP-172: Graphics, Visual Communication, and Urban Information
- USP-173: History of Urban Planning and Design
- USP-175: Site Analysis
- USP-177A: Urban Design Practicum
- USP-177B: Advanced Urban Design
- USP-179: Urban Design, Theory, and Practice
- USP-180: Transportation Planning
- USP-181: Public Transportation
- USP-183GS: International Urban Design Practicum (Summer Global Seminar offered every other year)
- USP-191A: Intermediate Geographic Information Systems for Urban and Community Planning
- USP-191B: Advanced Geographic Information Systems for Urban and Community Planning
- MGT-112: Global Business Strategy
- MGT-153: Business Analytics
- MGT-157: Real Estate Securitization
- MGT-158: Real Estate and the Tech Sector
- MGT-162: Negotiation
- MGT-164: Business and Organizational Leadership
- MGT-166: Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
- MGT-172: Business Project Management
- MGT-181: Enterprise Finance
