HELP Catalogue 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Urban Studies Program Expand All Courses | Print this Page Facebook this Page (opens a new window) Tweet this Page (opens a new window)

Director: Lisa Brawley;

Steering Committee: Tobias Armborst^b (Art), Pinar Batur (Sociology), Lisa Brawley (Urban Studies), Brian J. Godfrey (Geography), Maria Hantzopoulos (Education), Timothy Koechlin (International Studies), Osman Nemli^a (Philosophy), Leonard Nevarez (Sociology), Samson Okoth Opondo (Political Science), Tyrone Simpson, II (English), Erica Stein^a (Film), Adedoyin Teriba^a (Art);

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

^a On leave 2021/22, first semester

^b On leave 2021/22, second semester

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 106 - Philosophy & Contemporary Issues
• •  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 211 - Rome: The Art of Empire
• •  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 237 - Urban Sociology
• •  URBS 240 - Activating the Architectural Uncanny in the City
• •  URBS 245 - The Ethnographer’s Craft
• •  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 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 286 - Lines Intertwine: Fay Jones and the Architecture of the Ozarks
• •  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 305 - Sculpture II
• •  URBS 318 - Urban and Regional Economics
• •  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 389 - Urban Studies Rotating Intensive
• •  URBS 399 - Senior Independent Work

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