Workshop in Planning Practice is designed to help students develop and exercise planning competencies by undertaking a planning project as part of a team. Students gain experience in project management while applying research and decision methods taught in previous courses in the core curriculum of the Master of Science in Planning program. Above all, students have the opportunity to cultivate skills and etiquette that will be expected of them should they pursue a career in planning or a related discipline. In this course, each student is assigned to a team and each team is assigned a unique planning question typical of those that planning practitioners face in this region at this time, which has been posed by a 'client' organization. At the end of term, each team presents an executive summary of their report with question-and-answer period to a semi-public audience of classmates, project clients, project stakeholders, course instructors, and invited guests. Reports must include research, analysis, recommendations, and conclusions that lay out solutions or a conceptual framework to address the research question. Recommendations may rely on regulatory, administrative, programmatic, or design approaches, taking into account available mechanisms for change, as well as the social, political, economic, and environmental context. By placing students in a simulated professional setting, this course provides hands-on experience working with the concepts, methods and theories taught in core courses and concentration gateway courses completed earlier in the program. In this way, it enables students to "bridge the imagined gap between theory and practice" along with other core aims of the Graduate Planning Program Mission Statement.