Urban Studies

Curriculum

1. GEOG 112 - 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.
   
   CHIN 149 - Shanghai, Global City: Urban Culture in China from the Opium Wars until the Present 
   AMST 250 - Race, Place and Space 
   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 
   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 
   History topics course (The City in Latin American History);
   History topics course (Imaging the Modern City);
   POLI 204 - Urban Politics 
   POLI 244 - Urban Latino Power 
   SOCI 190 - Criminal Behavior/Social Control 
    
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 ;
   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 
   Various Geography Advanced topics courses that will include but not be limited to issues of economic development, housing, neighborhood conservation, transportation, urban planning and design)
   GEOG 488  (Urban Geography Field Seminar)
   GEOG 488  (Transportation Geography Seminar)
   History topics course (Remembering the Modern City)
   History topics course (Public History)
   POLI 203 - Politics and Inequality 
   Political Science topics course (Politics of Urban Education)
    
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 MATH 108 - Quantitative Thinking for Policy Analysis  and a quantitative methods course in the department in which the student majors.