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Thomas Nguyen

Bachelors of Arts in Community, Environment, and Planning

Individual Study Plan

Two Year Annotated Course List

Fall 2023

CEP 301

  • Course Description: Theories of community and communal rights and responsibilities. Experience building a learning community within major. Explores struggles for community in every sector of life

  • To further my understanding of community, I learned about what community means and how it differed through different texts and source material

CEP 300

  • Course Description: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences.

  • I bonded with my cohort and focused on the goals of the CEP major, as well as established our governance committee

  • Course Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

  • I learned how to govern as part of a committee, as well as learned how to run a major

CEP 400

KOR 360

  • Course Description: This course explores how Korean speculative fiction, which includes fantasy, sci-fi, supernatural, horror, and RPG/gaming webtoons, present visions of desirable or undesirable futures and pasts. Students will learn about the origins of these stories in Korean culture and society; manhwa and manga; and global literature. Through this course, we will examine how the characters, imagery, and thematic elements reflect various aspects of Korean culture and society, globalization, technology, and social movements. Finally, this course looks at how speculative fiction is often used as a method of critique to raise questions on gender, class, hierarchy, religion, colonialism, technology, race, human rights, sexual discrimination, social justice, and more.]

  • I took this class because I have always been interested in Korean pop culture, this class taught me how social and political views differed in other places.

Winter 2024

CEP 302

  • Course Description: Explores issues of environmental crisis and societal responses. Readings and reflective analysis from broad selection of authoritative sources to develop grounded perspective in ecological literacy and consciousness. Concurrently, experiential education in challenges and practical responses to building sustainable society through participation in community-based environmental effort

  • I hope to use this class to further my knowledge about the environment and utilize that information in designing walkable, sustainable communities.

CEP 400

  • Course Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

L ARCH 361

  • Course Description: Introduction to the discourses and debates in the contemporary design of cities. Provides an overview of design theories and examples of historic and contemporary work. Includes discussion of the contesting urban processes: visions and paradigms of city; discourses of nature and the city; contemporary urban changes; public and community process; and everyday place making.

  • I hope to  learn more about city planning, I think this will be very useful in designing walkable communities in the future.

Spring 2024

CEP 303

  • Course Description: Investigates use of formal and informal social structures and processes within context of community and environment. Looks at patterns and institutions of social organization and relationships among different sectors. Issues of interrelatedness, citizenship, knowledge, and communication.

  • To introduce concepts of planning and design

  • Course Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

CEP 400

CEP 300

  • Course Description: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences.

Fall 2024

CEP 460

  • Course Description: Examines theory against backdrop of practice for broad historical understanding of social, political, environmental planning. Critique from viewpoints, e.g., planning history, ethics, ecofeminism, environmental justice, class and capitalism, planning and global economy. Develop personalized history reflecting individual experience, professional experience, and philosophical heritage of planning profession.

  • Planning from different scopes, as well as furthering my learning on planning.

CEP 400

  • Course Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

CEP 300

  • Course Description: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences.

CEP 490

  • Course Description: Supports the conceptualization and planning of senior project/capstone work. Focuses on selecting a project, beginning a literature review, finding a mentor, and developing a plan.

  • Capstone planning

L ARCH 341

  • Course Description: Introduces urban ecological design issues for good site-planning processes, principles, and methods. Addresses planning for people, natural systems in place-making, design for movement with carried land uses. Includes readings, discussions, presentations, campus walks, case studies, graphic and written assignments.

  • Site-planning skills are in high demand in fields like landscape architecture, urban planning, and environmental management.

Winter 2025

CEP 461

  • Course Description: Examination of personal, societal, vocational, environmental, planning ethics. Readings and discourse on ethical foundations for public life. Individual and group readings on values, human potential. Develops understanding of ecological context, moral responsibility, self-awareness. Constructs positive, diverse view of humanity, environment regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, beliefs.

  • I hope to learn more about planning ethics and designing spaces that are inviting and non-exclusionary

CEP 491

  • Course Description: Focuses on implementing the senior project/capstone, including revisions and updates as seen fit.

  • Capstone planning

CEP 400

  • Course Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

L ARCH 353

  • Course Description: Development of profession and art of landscape architecture in the United States, Europe, South America, and Japan in relation to prevailing social, economic, political, and cultural factors. Relationships with other professions, especially architecture and urban planning, and other arts, such as painting and sculpture.

  • I want to learn about the history of built environments and landscape architecture, as well as how they have evolved to become more environmentally sustainable.

Spring 2025

CEP 462

  • Course Description: Capstone quarter merges core seminars, disciplinary courses in major, community field experiences for mastery of personal knowledge and skills. Reflection and synthesis of themes in major; engagement with contemporary issues. Compares theoretical definitions of community and environment with individual philosophies and knowledge within thoughtful, applied context.

  • Capstone

  • Course Description: Emphasizes personal and collective leadership, democratic decision making, and learning through direct action and reflection. Explores and develops students' personal skills as doers and leaders, while also learning how to form and function as effective groups.

CEP 300

  • Course Description: Focuses on planning analysis assessment and development of the major. Opportunities for community building and all-major policy deliberation and decisions. Workshops for skill building in consensus, facilitation, and for major-specific activities such as developing individual study plans and study abroad experiences.

CEP 446

CEP 400

  • Course Description: Connects core and individual courses with field work. Group and individual readings develop understanding of how students' internships and field placements constitute particular element of community and environmental planning. Explores how what we do for a living is part of our lives as citizens and public service

  • Internship

L ARCH 363

  • Course Description: Introduction to landscape ecological theory applied to urban environments. Comparison of different vocabularies used to describe landscape structure and function, from the fields of landscape design, urban design, and biology. Discussion of design theories that have sought to re-center landscape planning and design around the goal of achieving ecological sustainability.

  • Will be very useful in planning sustainable communities, will further my knowledge on landscape and urban design.

Summer 2025

L ARCH 300

  • Introduction to history and environmental influences in field while developing design and graphic skills. Site analyses and drawing to convey design concepts. Relationship of visual perception to drawing, role of values in design, verbal communication, and behavioral analysis of design process.

  • I wanted to take a studio to work on my drawing skills as well as further my knowledge on the process of landscape design.

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