Miriam Porter - As an urban studies student, what career - Related experience will i receive?

So our program gets involved in classroom instruction and studio projects. We operate studio projects through the Edina campus. And our projects involve working with communities and organizations on everything from economic development policy to trail planning to improving downtowns, revitalizing downtowns. And students actually work with the communities. The communities become our clients during the studio projects. So lots of opportunities for graduate students to become involved in this program on the Edina campus. And I don't know, Raymond, can you think of a more dynamic field than local government and local government management and planning? And what we also need to emphasize is what is still referred to as what we call the students who are working and who don't have time to commute to a MSU campus. Most of the classes are held in the evenings, to give working students the time to go to learn and to hope to enrich their careers. Our graduate students become professional planners and city managers. And it's really critical today for those people, when they go out into the field, to have a good understanding of world issues, because those world issues come together in their own communities. They may be doing economic development, projects with cities throughout the world. They may have immigrant populations in their communities. So it's important to know where people are coming from and what the life has been prior to coming to their communities. This is something that we really do impress upon our students is the need to see the world beyond what we have to offer in our country. So if students are interested in helping communities to realize their vision, then you might want to look at some of the courses that the Urban and Regional Studies Institute offers, in our graduate programs particularly.