Urban Studies

Structure of the Concentration

A concentration in urban studies will consist of eight courses distributed in the following manner.

Curriculum

GEOG 241 - Urban Geography
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 250 - Race, Place and Space
AMST 265 - The Schools-to-Prison Pipeline
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 260 - Critical Issues in Urban Education
EDUC 280 - Re-envisioning Education and Democracy
ENGL 341 - 20th Century British Novel
ENGL 385 - Los Angeles and the American Dream
ENVI 194 - Topics Course  Bicyling the Urban Landscape
GEOG 261 - World Urbanization
GEOG 262 - Metro Analysis
GEOG 294 - Topics Course  Asian Cities
GEOG 294 - Topics Course  Introduction to Urban Ecology
GEOG 341 - City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification
HIST 282 - Latin America: Art and Nation
HIST 284 - Imaging the Modern City
HIST 294 - Topics Course  The City in Latin American History
HIST 294 - Topics Course  We Built This City: Towns and City Life from Late Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages
HIST 382 - Remembering the Modern City
POLI 204 - Urban Politics
POLI 244 - Urban Latino Power
POLI 315 - Advanced Topics in Policy: US Education Politics and Policy
POLI 342 - Urban Politics of Latin America
SOCI 190 - Criminal Behavior/Social Control
THDA 294 - Topics Course  Hip Hop Performance
THDA 489 - Seminar in Performance Theory and Practice
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 - Critical Legal Studies  (with approved topic)
ANTH 230 - Ethnographic Interviewing
EDUC 390 - Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools
EDUC 614 - Independent Project
ENVI 270 - Psychology of Sustainable Behavior
ENVI 340 - US Urban Environmental History
ENVI 345 - Car Country: The Automobile and the American Environment
GEOG 365 - Urban GIS
GEOG 377 - Qualitative Research Methods
HIST 376 - Public History
HIST 382 - Remembering the Modern City
HIST 394 - Topics Course  Public History in Action: Remembering Rondo: An Oral History Project
POLI 203 - Politics and Inequality
THDA 210 - Community-Based Theatres
THDA 265 - The Oral History Project
THDA 294 - Topics Course  Ecology and Performance: What Does the Warming World Need Now?
INTD 401 - Urban Studies Colloquium