Director: Lisa Brawley;

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

Participating Faculty: Tobias Armborst (Art), Pinar Batur (Sociology), Nancy Bisaha (History), Lisa Brawley (Urban Studies), Heesok Chang (English), Mita Choudhury^ab (History), Miriam Cohen (History), Mary Ann Cunningham (Geography), Eve D’Ambra (Art), Yvonne Elet (Art), Dustin Frye (Economics), Brian J. Godfrey (Geography), Maria Hantzopoulos (Education), Hua Hsu (English), Timothy Koechlin (International Studies), Amitava Kumar (English), Candice M. Lowe Swift (Anthropology), Erin McCloskey (Education), Molly S. McGlennen (English), Lydia Murdoch (History), Osman Nemli (Philosophy), Molly Nesbit (Art), Leonard Nevarez (Sociology), Leslie Scott Offutt (History), Barbara A. Olsen (Greek and Roman Studies), Samson Okoth Opondo^a (Political Science), Hiram Perez (English), Sidney Plotkin (Political Science), Ismail O. D. Rashid (History), Louis Romer (Anthropology), Tyrone Simpson, II (English), Adedoyin Teriba (Art), Yu Zhou (Geography).

^a On leave 2020/21, first semester

^ab On leave 2020/21

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 144 - Living in the Ancient City
• •  URBS 177 - Special Topics

Urban Studies: II. Intermediate

• •  URBS 200 - Urban Theory
• •  URBS 202 - Public Policy and Human Environments
• •  URBS 219 - The First Cities: The Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
• •  URBS 225 - Renaissance Italy
• •  URBS 229 - Paris and London: Society and Culture in the Early Modern City, 1500-1800
• •  URBS 230 - Making Cities
• •  URBS 232 - Design and the City: Contemporary Urbanisms
• •  URBS 237 - Urban Sociology
• •  URBS 240 - Activating the Architectural Uncanny in the City
• •  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 256 - Bilingualism and/in K-12 Public Education
• •  URBS 257 - Genre and the Postcolonial City
• •  URBS 258 - Sustainable Landscapes: Bridging Place and Environment in Poughkeepsie
• •  URBS 264 - The Metropolitan Avant-Gardes
• •  URBS 265 - Modern Art and the Mass Media: the New Public Sphere
• •  URBS 268 - After 1968: Sustainable Aesthetics
• •  URBS 270 - Gender and Social Space
• •  URBS 271 - Visual Urbanism
• •  URBS 272 - “All That Is Solid Melts Into Air”: Modernity’s Global Story Through Architecture (1800s-1930s)
• •  URBS 273 - A Mirror Image: The Search for Self, Place & Home in Contemporary Architecture in the World, 1980s+
• •  URBS 274 - Buildings and Cities in Early Modern Italy
• •  URBS 275 - Architectural Design I
• •  URBS 276 - Architectural Design II
• •  URBS 277 - America 1890-1990 “The Rise and Fall of “The American Century”
• •  URBS 284 - Chinatowns: Then and Now
• •  URBS 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  URBS 298 - Independent Work

Urban Studies: III. Advanced

• •  URBS 300 - Senior Thesis
• •  URBS 301 - Senior Thesis
• •  URBS 303 - Advanced Debates in Urban Studies
• •  URBS 310 - Urban Inequality
• •  URBS 314 - Seminar in Ancient Art
• •  URBS 318 - Urban and Regional Economics
• •  URBS 320 - Mapping the Middle Landscape
• •  URBS 326 - Machiavelli: Power and Politics
• •  URBS 340 - Advanced Urban and Regional Studies
• •  URBS 346 - Musical Urbanism
• •  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
• •  URBS 375 - Architectural Design III
• •  URBS 380 - Design Workshop
• •  URBS 383 - Indigenous New York
• •  URBS 384 - Refugees and Urban Space
• •  URBS 385 - Seminar in American Art
• •  URBS 399 - Senior Independent Work