Urban & Regional Planning
This seven-week program in Panama focuses on issues related to development and urbanization in Latin America with a concentration on Urban Planning’s response to those phenomena. Seminars are augmented by students’ participation in a weekly colloquium and in a professional applied planning project for a Panamanian client. Students participating in this program enjoy numerous excursions. These supervised trips may include visits to Kuna Yala and Bocas del Toro, sites around Panama City, Portobelo, and Colón.
Eligibility
The Florida State University graduate students in good academic standing are eligible for this program. Students enrolled in urban planning, international development, or international affairs at an institution other than Florida State are eligible if in good standing at their home institutions.
Housing
In Summer 2009, Panama relocated to the City of Knowledge campus, a large educational and research complex that includes several international organizations, research and teaching institutions, and international as well as local businesses. At the new facilities, students live in furnished apartments a short walk from the main classroom building. Each apartment has three bedrooms, living-dining area, fully equipped kitchen, and at least two bathrooms (although this may change in the future as additional facilities are built.) Sport facilities for basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer, football, and volleyball - plus a swimming pool and gym - are just one street away. The houses are on a university dorm street adjacent to various United Nations offices, international organizations, technological parks, and research centers. Other international universities with local and study abroad programs will be represented as well, allowing for possible networking with our students.
Click here to view a La Prensa newspaper article about the 2009 URP program project, Seeds of Hope.
