| source City University of New York (X) |
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department Urban Studies (X) |
Open only to students in the Urban Studies Specialization,who have completed at least three electives in urban studies-related courses.
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Interdisciplinary field researchy course open only to participants in the Urban Studies Specialization and may not be taken until URB 450: Urban Studies Seminar has been completed.
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Introduction to urban studies allowing students to translate personal knowledge and experience of New York City to more theoretical understanding of urbanism. Includes four projects dealing with mapping, immigration, census data analysis, and local development issues.
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Introduction to urban studies allowing students to translate personal knowledge and experience of New York City to more theoretical understanding of urbanism. Includes four projects dealing with mapping, immigration, census data analysis, and local development issues.
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Introduction to forces shaping institutions and life of contemporary American urban regions. Focus on evolving metropolitan economic, social, demographic, spatial, and political systems, and their relevance to current policy.
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Introduction to forces shaping institutions and life of contemporary American urban regions. Focus on evolving metropolitan economic, social, demographic, spatial, and political systems, and their relevance to current policy.
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Exposure to human and institutional consequences of economic, social, and political forces confronting metropolitan America. Review of activities of public and private agencies dealing with urban problems.
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Exposure to human and institutional consequences of economic, social, and political forces confronting metropolitan America. Review of activities of public and private agencies dealing with urban problems.
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Exploration of alternative scenarios that could guide development of cities and urban regions in next century. Includes review of contemporary urbanization trends in US and abroad and utopian forecasts of future urban life.
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Survey of research skills necessary for analysis of contemporary urban issues. Includes review of data sources, methods of forecasting, use of computer, and methods of information presentation.
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Examination of components of metropolitan land use. Focus on planning and management of physical environment by public and private agencies at local, state, and national levels.
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Detailed review of social and economic concerns confronting urban communities, focusing on major problem areas: poverty, health, crime, economic development, unemployment, and racial discrimination.
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Intensive examination or investigation of specialized topics or new developments in literature and research.
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Introduction of financial management of urban municipalities and authorities. Attention to process of fiscal decision-making as seen from perspective of local community, and analysis of role of intergovernmental aid.
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Internship experience in urban-related public or non-profit agency providing firsthand involvement in urban planning or policy issues, under careful supervision, in professional field setting.
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Internship experience in urban-related public or nonprofit agency providing firsthand involvement in urban planning or policy issues, under careful supervision, in professional field setting.
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Study of the many peoples who have contributed to the fashioning of American civilization from 1500 to the present. Survey of historical and contemporary issues related to racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity in the United States through an examination of such concepts as assimilation, discrimination, integration, pluralism, racism, segregation.
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The course explores the scope of problems associated with urban development: health, transportation, social services, land development and poverty. This course will seek to define issues while exploring many of the approaches proposed as a resolution of these problems.
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This course focuses on the sociological, historical, and cultural perspectives of six major ethnic groups in New York City: Afro-Americans, Greek-Americans, Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, and Puerto Rican-Americans. Factors of migration and immigration will be explored for each group.
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Introduction to the field of urban studies investigating why cities are places of economic and political opportunity for some and of deprivation, discrimination, violence, and impoverishment for others. Exploration of different theories of urban poverty and inequality and examination of the impact of immigration, racial segregation, suburbanization, public policies, and social movements on U.S. cities and their inhabitants. Special attention is paid to the existence of inequalities based on race, class, gender, sexuality and analyzes proposals to reduce these inequalities.
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Survey of urban public programs. Analysis of selected examples (taken from health, transport, housing, education, welfare, protective, and other services). Comparison of analytical approaches to the analysis of institutions. Role of private, voluntary, and labor organizations in service delivery.
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An introduction to the study of urban diversity in the United States. It explores the different forms of identity, community and cultural belonging that dot the urban landscape, and analyzes the historical, social, political, and economic forces that shape the everyday lives of diverse urban populations. The course also analyzes debates over migration, assimilation, pluralism, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism and introduces students to urban studies? multidisciplinary approaches for the study of diversity and inequality.
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