Minor Program
Students interested in pursuing a minor in Urban and Community Studies should think in terms of completing appropriate 1000-level courses in the various social sciences as preparation for advanced courses in their program in Urban and Community Studies. These should include Urban Studies 1200 (cross-listed as Geography 1200) and might well include some of the following courses: Economics 1201, Political Science 1602, Sociology 1001 and Statistics 1000 or 1100.
Requirements for the Minor
15 credit hours of courses selected from the Urban and Community Studies major, as follows:
A) Required course:
- Urban Studies 2000: Introduction to Urban Studies
B) Two courses from different departments from among the following:
- Economics 2439: Urban Development and Policy
- Economics 2456: Economics of Poverty
- Geography 3200 / Urban Studies 3200: Urban Geography
- Geography 4210: Urban and Regional Planning
- History 3541 / Urban Studies: History of Urban America
- History 3554: Immigrants and the Shaping of American History
- History 3564: African American History Since 1865
- Political Science 3632 / Urban Studies 3632: Urban Politics
- Political Science 3842: Public Administration or Public Policy 3031: Public Administration in Theory and Practice
- Public Policy 4034: Social Policy
- Sociology 3901 / Urban Studies 3275: Urban Sociology
- Sociology 3425: Social Welfare and Social Work
- Sociology 3911: Communities
- Urban Studies 3000: Urban Anthropology
C) Two additional courses selected from among the following:
- Any additional course listed in B above
- Any of the following courses:
- Economics 2431: Economics of Taxation and Government Spending
- Economics 3431: Public Finance
- Economics/Urban Studies 3439: Urban and Regional Economics
- Geography 4200: Advanced Urban Geography
- Geography 4500: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
- Human Development and Family Studies 2001: Diversity Issues in Human Development and Family Studies
- Human Development and Family Studies 3510: Planning and Managing Human Service Programs
- Human Development and Family Studies 3530: Public Policy and the Family
- History 3530: Asian-American Experience Since 1865
- History 3563: African American History to 1865
- History 3568: Hip-Hop, Politics and Youth Culture in America
- History 3674: History of Latinos/as in the United States
- Interdepartmental 3584: Seminar in Urban Problems (taken as part of the Urban Semester Program)
- Political Science 2622: State and Local Government
- Political Science 3642: African American Politics
- Political Science 3662: Latino Political Behavior
- Political Science 3847: The Policy-Making Process
- Public Policy 3020: Cases in Public Policy
- Public Policy 4033: State and Local Fiscal Problems
- Sociology 3459: Aging in American Society
- Sociology 3825: African Americans and Social Protest
- Sociology 3903: Urban Problems or URBN 3276: Urban Problems
- Sociology 3907: - City Life
- Urban Studies 3981: Internship in Urban Studies: Seminar or INTD 3594: Urban Semester Fieldwork Seminar (Urban Semester Program)
- Urban Studies 3995: Special Topics
- Urban Studies 3998: Variable Topics
- Urban Studies 4000: Understanding Your Community
- Urban Studies 4999: Independent Study
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