Urban Studies

Curriculum

1. GEOG 201 - Introduction to Urban Studies .
2. Four discipline-based theoretical approaches to the city drawn from the following set of courses. Courses must be selected from at least TWO disciplines. A relevant course that does not appear on this list, including a course taken through a study away/study abroad opportunity, may be substituted for one of these courses, pending approval of the concentration director.
   
   AMST 294 - Topics Course  (Placing Race and Seeing Social Inequality)
   ECON 342 - Economics of Poverty in US 
   EDUC 240 - Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in Education 
   EDUC 280 - Re-envisioning Education and Democracy 
   ENGL 341 - 20th Century British Novel 
   ENGL 385 - Los Angeles and the American Dream 
   GEOG 241 - Urban Geography 
   GEOG 261 - Geography of World Urbanization 
   GEOG 262 - Metro Analysis 
   GEOG 341 - Urban Social Geography: City Life and Landscapes 
   GEOG 488 - Seminar 
   HIST 232 - Immigration and Ethnicity in US History 
   HIST 233 - Introduction to the History of the US Working Class 
   HIST 248 - Jim Crow 
   HIST 249 - African Americans and the Transformation of the City: 1890-1945 
   HIST 282 - Latin America: Art and Nation 
   HIST 294 - Topics Course  (The City in Latin American History)
   HIST 294 - Topics Course   (Imagining the Modern City)
   POLI 204 - Urban Politics 
   POLI 244 - Urban Latino Power 
   POLI 394 - Topics Course : Urban Politics in Latin America
   SOCI 190 - Criminal Behavior/Social Control 
   THDA 294 - Topics Course  (Hip Hop Performance)
   THDA 489 - Seminar in Performance Theory and Practice 
    
3. Two applied courses drawn from the following set of courses. A relevant course that does not appear on this list, including a four-credit internship or a course taken through a study away/study abroad opportunity, may be substituted for one of these courses, pending approval of the concentration director.
   
   AMST 300 - Jr Civic Engagement Seminar  (with approved topic)
   ANTH 230 - Ethnographic Interviewing 
   EDUC 390 - Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools 
   EDUC 614 - Independent Project 
   ENVI 345 - Car Country: The Automobile and the American Environment 
   GEOG 365 - Urban GIS 
   GEOG 377 - Qualitative Research Methods 
   GEOG 488 - Seminar 
   HIST 376 - Public History 
   HIST 382 - Remembering the Modern City 
   POLI 203 - Politics and Inequality 
   THDA 210 - Community-Based Theatres 
   THDA 265 - The Oral History Project 
    
4. INTD 401 - Urban Studies Colloquium 

Technical Competency

Urban studies students should attempt to master several of the following communication and technical skills. With their advisors they will develop goal attainment schedules for each of the required skills. All students will not be equally proficient in all skills.

1. Oral Communication -  Students will be expected to be articulate and should have some experience with creative oral communication.
2. Written Communication -  All students will be expected to write concise, jargon-free technical reports.
3. Quantitative Reasoning - All students will be expected to be able to analyze and present numerical information. Students are advised to take an appropriate quantitative methods course in the department in which they major.