PLAN-145: Planning Ethics

Ethical challenges pervade the field of planning. Understanding how to address these challenges is critical for planners at all levels. Planetizen's Planning Ethics course provides professional planners with a thorough and thoughtful discussion of ethical concerns that many planners are likely to face in their careers. In three videos, ethics expert Carol Barrett, AICP, examines the AICP Code of Ethics, and applies its standards to common examples in everyday planning.

Synchronized with detailed slides, the three videos in this course offer a quick and informative immersion into the world of ethics. Students will learn to think critically about the issues facing them in their organizations and practices. This course is a great way to stay conscious of the ethical issues planners face.

For AICP members, this course also satisfies the ethics requirement for AICP's Certification Maintenance program.

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Course Instructor

Carol Barrett, AICP, is a highly acclaimed expert in planning ethics. She is author of Everyday Ethics for Practicing Planners, widely regarded as the definitive work on planning ethics. Carol is a former president of the American Planning Association's Texas Chapter. She is also a past member of the AICP Ethics Committee and the Joint APA/AICP Ethics Awareness Committee. She served on the 1978 Committee, chaired by Jerry Kaufman, which drafted the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Student Testimonials

"It was an effective medium for learning, allowing me to do it at my pace and at my facility. The speaker was very good as well."
-- Stan Liudahl, AICP, Senior Planner

Course Outline

• Video 1: The AICP Code of Ethics
• Video 2: The 24 Rules of Conduct
• Video 3: What's in the Code, What's Not
• Quiz

Course Format

This course consists of three video presentations. The instructor presents the information and is accompanied by a slideshow, enabling students to watch, listen and read along. The three videos run 16 minutes, 23 minutes and 14 minutes, respectively. Each video also features an interactive table of content, allowing student to skip to different parts of the presentation or easily repeat certain sections. Below is an example of the video presentation. The course concludes with a brief quiz. Estimated time to complete this course: 2 hours.

AICP Certification Maintenance

This course has been approved to provide 2 credits for the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Certification Maintenance program.

To claim your CM credits, review the Guide to Claiming AICP CM Credits for Planetizen Courses.

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