The Graduate Diploma in Planning will be an on-line, course-based, professional program primarily for practicing planners and related professions. The Diploma is intended to attract students interested in expanding and updating their knowledge, enhancing their employment flexibility and generating opportunities for advancement. The proposed program is for-credit, offered to domestic and international students. The on-line offering of the proposed program allows practitioners with busy schedules to participate and to count their course work as part of their continuing professional education requirements. The program will normally be offered only for part-time study.