Director: Tyrone Simpson, II;

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

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

^a On leave 2016/17, first semester
^b On leave 2016/17, second semester
^ab On leave 2016/17

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 219 - The First Cities: The Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
• •  URBS 222 - Urban Political Economy
• •  URBS 225 - Renaissance Italy
• •  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 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 279 - Four Architects of the Modern Era
• •  URBS 280 - Architectural History
• •  URBS 282 - Democracy and Community Development: from New Orleans to New York
• •  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 310 - Urban Inequality
• •  URBS 316 - Constantinople/Istanbul: 1453
• •  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 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 380 - English Seminar
• •  URBS 383 - Indigenous New York
• •  URBS 385 - Seminar in American Art
• •  URBS 399 - Senior Independent Work