Director: Tyrone Simpson, II;

Steering Committee: Tobias Armborst (Art), Pinar Batur (Sociology), Lisa Brawley (Urban Studies), Brian J. Godfrey^b (Earth Science and Geography), Maria Hantzopoulos^a (Education), Timothy Koechlin (International Studies), Erin McCloskey (Education), Lydia Murdoch (History), Leonard Nevarez (Sociology), Ismail O. D. Rashid (History), Tyrone Simpson, II (English);

Participating Faculty: Nicholas Adams^a (Art), Tobias Armborst (Art), Pinar Batur (Sociology), Nancy Bisaha (History), Lisa Brawley (Urban Studies), Colette Cann^ab (Education), Heesok Chang (English), Miriam Cohen (History), Lisa Gail Collins (Art), Mary Ann Cunningham^a (Earth Science and Geography), Brian J. Godfrey^b (Earth Science and Geography), Maria Hantzopoulos^a (Education), Hua Hsu (English), Timothy Koechlin (International Studies), Candice M. Lowe Swift (Anthropology), Erin McCloskey (Education), Molly S. McGlennen (English), Lydia Murdoch (History), Leonard Nevarez (Sociology), Leslie Scott Offutt^b (History), Barbara A. Olsen (Greek and Roman Studies), Samson Okoth Opondo^a (Political Science), Hiram Perez^a (English), Sidney Plotkin (Political Science), Ismail O. D. Rashid (History), Tyrone Simpson, II (English), Peter G. Stillman^a (Political Science), Yu Zhou (Earth Science and Geography);

^a On leave 2014/15, first semester
^b On leave 2014/15, second semester
^ab On leave 2014/15

After declaration of the major or correlate sequence, no NRO work will be permissible or applicable to the major.

Programs

Major

• •  Urban Studies Major

Correlate Sequence in Urban Studies

• •  Urban Studies Correlate Sequence

Courses

Urban Studies: I. Introductory

• •  URBS 100 - Introduction to Urban Studies
• •  URBS 170 - Introduction to Architectural History
• •  URBS 177 - Special Topics

Urban Studies: II. Intermediate

• •  URBS 200 - Urban Theory
• •  URBS 222 - Urban Political Economy
• •  URBS 230 - Making Cities
• •  URBS 232 - Design and the City: Contemporary Urbanisms
• •  URBS 235 - Quality of Life
• •  URBS 237 - Community Development
• •  URBS 245 - The Ethnographer’s Craft
• •  URBS 249 - The Politics of City, Suburb, Neighborhood
• •  URBS 250 - Urban Geography: Space, Place, Environment
• •  URBS 252 - Cities of the Global South: Urbanization and Social Change in the Developing World
• •  URBS 254 - Victorian Britain
• •  URBS 255 - Race, Representation, and Resistance in U.S. Schools
• •  URBS 257 - Genre and the Postcolonial City
• •  URBS 258 - Sustainable Landscapes: Bridging Place and Environment in Poughkeepsie
• •  URBS 270 - Gender and Social Space
• •  URBS 271 - Visual Urbanism
• •  URBS 272 - Buildings and Cities after the Industrial Revolution
• •  URBS 273 - Modern Architecture and Beyond
• •  URBS 275 - Rome: Architecture and Urbanism
• •  URBS 277 - The Making of the “American Century,” 1890 - 1945
• •  URBS 288 - The Politics of Language in Schools and Society
• •  URBS 290 - Field Work
• •  URBS 298 - Independent Work

Urban Studies: III. Advanced

• •  URBS 300 - Senior Thesis
• •  URBS 301 - Senior Thesis
• •  URBS 303 - Advanced Debates in Urban Studies
• •  URBS 316 - Constantinople/Istanbul: 1453
• •  URBS 320 - Mapping the Middle Landscape
• •  URBS 326 - Challenging Ethnicity
• •  URBS 340 - Advanced Urban and Regional Studies
• •  URBS 350 - New York City as a Social Laboratory
• •  URBS 352 - The City in Fragments
• •  URBS 356 - Environment and Land Use Planning
• •  URBS 367 - Urban Education Reform
• •  URBS 369 - Social Citizenship in an Urban Age
• •  URBS 370 - Seminar in Architectural History: Rome of the Imagination
• •  URBS 373 - Adolescent Literacy
• •  URBS 392 - Multidisciplinary Methods in Adolescent Education
• •  URBS 399 - Senior Independent Work