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College of Arts & Sciences
- Undergraduate
Minor in Urban Studies –
The minor in Urban Studies provides undergraduate students with a flexible concentration in interdisciplinary studies of cities, urbanism, and urbanity. Urban Studies is a long established academic field, especially prominent in major cities in the United States. Course work combines a practical focus on Metropolitan Miami with more general attention to urban theory and globalization from a global perspective.
The minor has a liberal arts orientation: and includes perspectives from the social sciences, architecture, and history. It is a useful complement to majors such as Geography, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Literature, International Studies, Economics, Political Science, and others. The minor is also of particular interest to students in Architecture. Courses in the Minor are from the College of Arts & Sciences and from the School of Architecture. Note that there are slightly different requirements for A&S and ARC students.
Requirements:
• Students must complete 15 credits (five courses);
• In all five courses, students must achieve a minimum grade of C- with a 2.0 overall GPA;
• All minors are required to take two core courses:
URB 201 Metropolitan Miami, 3 cr.
URB 301 Cities in Time and Space, 3 cr.
• In addition, students must select three courses from the list of Optional Courses, below. All are 3-credit courses. ARC students may select no more than one ARC course while A&S students must select at least one ARC course. Note that URB 201 or URB 301 will suffice as prerequisites for any of these courses.
ARC 585 History of Cities
ARC 541 Seminar on Town Design
ARC 554 Architecture of South Florida
ARC 584 Special Topics: On-Site Survey of European Architecture and Urbanism
APY 420 Archaeology, Architecture, and the City
GEG 430 World Cities
GEG 522 Urbanization in the Developing World
SOC 304 Dynamics of Poverty in the United States
SOC 368 Violence in America
HIS 369 Introduction to Urban America
HIS 371 Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in American History
POL 343 Government in Metropolitan Areas
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