Urban Studies Major
As an urban studies major, you will examine the forces that shape cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas. The major is ideal for students drawn to serious examination of the profound issues confronting urban/metropolitan America. Urban studies seeks to prepare students for the challenge of solving these issues.
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This course is designed to introduce students to some of the major themes in American history. We will explore the emergence and expansion of the nation, changing meanings of freedom, of citizenship, of American identity, as well as major changes in the nation's economic structures, politics, social order and culture. Much of the reading and writing assignments will come from primary sources.
This introductory course analyzes the forces shaping America's cities and surrounding metropolitan areas. It examines strategies for dealing with many of the profound social issues affecting urban/metropolitan America. Emanating from an historical perspective, it examines the ways in which industrialization and deindustrialization shaped Northern American cities. It further surveys the demographic and spatial transformation of American cities, examining the origin and societal changes and emerging goals of urban development, gentrification, and evolving patterns of metropolitanism and the necessity for central city as well as neighborhood reconstruction. Various theoretical perspectives and philosophies are introduced that have dominated the discourse on race and urban poverty.
our students have gone on to become:
Physicians
Urban Planners
Public Policy Makers
Public Health Advocates
Sociologists
Urban Designers
Lawyers
Government Officials
