Real Estate Minor

The Real Estate interdisciplinary minor is a structured 18 credit program, open to all students.

Required among the 18 credits are one foundation course; technical and market-focused courses such as real estate law, development, finance, and urban economics; and electives related to planning, sustainability, climate, history, equity, and community development. Students will also complete a capstone experience plus three 1-credit courses — including an internship, financial modeling training, and at least one other elective. At least 15 credits used for the minor cannot be used to fulfill requirements in another major or minor. Students may share one course between the interdisciplinary minor and another requirement. 

Courses must be taken from the list available below. Students who would like to inquire about the possibility of receiving elective credit for a course that does not appear on the electives list must submit a course pre-approval form to initiate a request with the department chair prior to enrolling in the course.

Students may apply for admission during the first two weeks of the fall and spring semesters. The deadline for Fall 2026 applications is Monday, September 14th.


Course Options & Requirements 

Curriculum

The proposed minor will require five 3-credit courses and three 1-credit courses, totaling 18 credits.

1

Required Foundation Course

 

Course #Course NameNotes
UNAS1725/ECON1704Real Estate and Urban Action (Complex Problems)  
UNAS1743/ECON2206Real Estate and Urban Action (new course numbers as of Fall 2026)
BSLW1181Real Estate and Urban Action  
BSLW1125Real Estate Fundamentals 
BSLW1145Real Estate Development  

1

Required Technical and Market-Focused Elective

Course #Course NameNotes
BSLW1156Real Estate Law 
MFIN2207Real Estate Finance 
ECON3394Urban Economics 
BSLW2222Real Estate Transactions 
BSLW2025Transit-Oriented Development 

1

Required Planning, Land Use, Climate Change, and Sustainability Elective

Course #Course NameNotes
BSLW2207Urban Design: Introduction to Contemporary Issues  
ECON 2212/ISYS 6625Geographic Info Systems for Planning, Decision-Making 
EESC1132Exploring the Earth 
EESC1180The Living Earth I 
EESC2205Environmental Systems: Climate Change 
BIOL1440Sustaining the Biosphere 
ENVS/HIST2406This Land is Your Land: U.S. Environmental History  
ENVS/SOCY3355Sustainable Cities 
ENVS3371Imagining Sustainable Futures 
ENVS3345Environment and Public Health 
ENVS4006Place-Making for Net-Zero Future: Sustainable Architecture & Landscape Design 
SOCY3361Urban Sociology 
SOCY3385American Economic Crisis and Social Change  
SOCY5419Space, Place, Community Graduate Course

1

Required Historical and Equity-Focused Elective

Course #Course NameNotes
ECON/BSLW 2000State of Affordable Housing in the USA 
PHIL2216Boston: An Urban Analysis 
HIST4474A Tale of Two Cities: New York & Boston 
HIST4440Housing America 
HIST2824American Urban and Suburban History 
ARTH225101Modern Architecture 
FILM4454The City in Global Cinema  
ARTH2267Saltbox to Skyscraper: American Architecture 
ARTH1107History of Architecture 
ARTH3346Architecture in East Asia 

 

1

Required Capstone Experience

Course #Course NameNotes
BSLW2208Urban Action Lab - Advancing Real Estate Solutions 
BSLW2299Field Projects in Real Estate 
BSLW2298Independent Directed Study Approved by Minor 

Three one-credit courses, chosen from the lists below. 

1

Course from this list

     

Course #
Course NameNotes
BSLW2525Real Estate Accelerator Financial Modeling in Practice 
BSLW2210Commercial Real Estate Market Analysis  

1

Course from this list

     

Course #
Course NameNotes
 Corcoran Center Summer Internship 
 Approved Summer Internship in Real Estate  

1

Course from this list

     

Course #
Course NameNotes
BSLW/ECON2200Real Estate Colloquium: Leadership and Innovation in Real Estate 
BSLW/ECON2201Real Estate Colloquium II 
BSLW2020Real Estate Development in Practice 
BSLW2250/ECON2250Community Development and the Evolution of Place-Making 
BSLW2402Real Estate Case CompetitionOnline
BSLW2260Real Estate Leasing 
BSLW2700Engaging the City: Real Estate and Large-Scale Development 

Study Abroad

One elective towards the minor can be taken abroad if the course content is comparable to that of a Boston College elective. Credit for study abroad requires course pre-approval from the Chair of the department. Students must submit a Study Abroad Course Evaluation Form to initiate a request and begin the pre-travel approval process before going abroad and enrolling in the course. If pre-travel approval is granted, credit for courses taken abroad will only be granted upon the student’s return from the program, based on the graded work completed for the course.

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