Approved Electives

NOTE: This website and course listings are being updated. Please consult the Registrar's site for current course information. Many approved elective Urban Studies courses are cross-listed and include the "URB" prefix.

 

Fall 2023 Courses

 

AAS 302 / SOC 303 / ANT 378 / GHP 302 (CD or SA)

HUMANITIES

Political Bodies: The Social Anatomy of Power & Difference

 

AAS 367 / HIS 387 (CD or HA)

HUMANITIES

African American History Since Emancipation

 

AMS 312 / GSS 462 / URB 316 / ENV 314 (CD or SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Race, Gender, and the Urban Environment

 

AMS 403 / SOC 403 (SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Advanced Seminar in American Studies: Elites in Democratic America

 

ANT 227 / URB 225 (CD or SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Urban Ethnography

 

ANT 311 (CD or SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Food, Culture & Society

 

ARC 205 / URB 205 / LAS 225 / ENV 205 (LA) * 1 of 2 required courses

HUMANITIES

Interdisciplinary Design Studio

 

ARC 303 / URB 303 / EGR 303 (SA)

HUMANITIES

Wall Street and Silicon Valley: Place in the American Economy

 

ARC 492 / URB 492 / ENV 492

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING or HUMANITIES

Topics in the Formal Analysis of the Urban Structure: Environmental Challenges of Urban Sprawl

 

ART 329 / ARC 318 / HIS 330 (HA)

HUMANITIES

Architecture of Confinement, from the Hospice to the Era of Mass Incarceration

 

ARC 401 / URB 401 (SA)

HUMANITIES/SOCIOLOGY

Theories of Housing and Urbanism

 

CEE 262B / ARC 262B / EGR 262B / URB 262B (SEL)

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING or HUMANITIES

Structures and the Urban Environment

 

CEE 392 / HUM 392 (EM)

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING

Engineering Justice and the City: Technologies, Environments, and Power

 

CEE 474 (SEN)

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING

Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering: Structural Engineering for Climate Change Adaptation

 

CEE 477 / ENE 477 (SEN)

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING

Engineering Design for Sustainable Development

 

ENE 273 / ECE 273 (SEN)

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING

Renewable Energy and Smart Grids

 

ENG 317 / COM 396 / HUM 314 (CD or LA)

HUMANITIES

Where are we? Maps, Travel, and Wonder

 

ENG 384 / ENV 383  (LA)

HUMANITIES

Environmental Justice Through Literature and Film

 

ENV 380 / ENG 480 / COM 386  (CD or LA)

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING or HUMANITIES

Cities, Sea Level Rise and the Environmental Humanities

 

ENV 305 / SAS 315 (SA)

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING or HUMANITIES

Topics in Environmental Studies: Co-existing with Complexity: Present and Possibilities for Environment

 

GEO 202 (STL)

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING or HUMANITIES

Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate

 

GEO 360 / ENV 356 (SEL)

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING

Topics in Environmental Justice in the Geosciences

 

HIS 465 / LAO 465 / AMS 465 (HA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Latino Urban History

 

HIS 202 / URB 203 / AMS 202 / AAS 203 (CD or HA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Sixties: Documentary, Youth and the City

 

HIS 393 / AAS 393 / SPI 389 (HA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America

 

HIS 459 / GSS 459 / AMS 459 (HA)

HUMANITIES

The History of Incarceration in the U.S.

 

HUM 352 / ENG 252 / URB 352 / THR 350 (CD or LA)

HUMANITIES

Arts in the Invisible City: Race, Policy, Performance

 

HUM 234 /EAS 234 /COM 234 (EM)

HUMANITIES

East Asian Humanities II: Traditions and Transformations

 

JRN 449 / HLS 448 / URB 447 (SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

International News: Reporting on Rising Nationalism in Europe

 

LAS 217 / POL 271 / URB 217 / ANT 397 (CD or SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Culture, Politics, and Human Rights in Latin America

 

LAS 307 / ANT 307 / ARC 317 / ART 388 (CD or SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Indigenous American Urbanism: Teotihuacan and its Legacy in Comparative Perspective

 

LAS 329 / ENV 390 / ANT 329 (SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Amazonia, The Last Frontier: On Colonization and Decolonization

 

POL 403 / CHV 403 / ARC 405 / URB 403 (EM)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Architecture and Democracy

 

SAS 355 / ANT 395 / ENV 381 / URB 355 (CD or HA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Coastal Justice: Ecologies, Societies, Infrastructures in South Asia

 

SOC 373 (SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Systemic Racism: Myths and Realities

 

SPI 336 (CD or SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Policing, Civil Rights and Social Change

 

SPI 409 / SAS 409 / POL 457 (SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Modern India: Political Economy Since Independence

 

URB 201 / SPI 201 / SOC 203 / ARC 207 (SA)

HUMANITIES or SOCIAL SCIENCES

Introduction to Urban Studies

 

 

 

   

Fall 2021 Courses

Fall 2020 Courses

Fall 2019 Courses

Fall 2018 Courses

Fall 2017 Courses

Fall 2016 Courses

Fall 2015 Courses

Fall 2014 Courses

Fall 2013 Courses

Fall 2012 Courses

 

Spring 2022 Courses

Spring 2021 Courses

Spring 2020 Courses

Spring 2019 Courses

Spring 2018 Courses

Spring 2017 Courses

Spring 2016 Courses

Spring 2015 Courses

Spring 2014 Courses

Spring 2013 Courses

*Please note: courses not included on the approved electives lists, will need approval from the Director of Urban Studies to be counted toward the certificate.*

** With Urban Studies approval, freshman seminars will count.**

***Please check "program of study" page for certificate requirements.