Course Overview

The course is designed as the sessional course for Course No. URP 2112. It is expected that upon completion of the course student will learn the basic characteristics of rural areas in planning perspective. Students of this course are expected to identify the theoretical concepts in the field. This course has been designed to introduce students with different infrastructure and landuse of rural areas in Bangladesh.

Course Objectives

This course is designed for providing field experience to the second year students for understanding the dynamics of rural areas. 

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

After completing the course students are expected to be able to:

·       Conduct rural landuse survey;

·       Identify the interrelationship between livelihood and rural landuse;

·       Analyze the spatial dimension of rural infrastructures;

·       Identify different social, economic and political institutions in rural areas and assess their role in rural development.