One course dealing primarily with urban subject matter from each of three of the following disciplines: Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Sociology. URBS UN1515 INTRODUCTION TO URBAN STUDIES Requirement A: Urban-Related Social Sciences (3 courses) The major in Urban Studies is comprised of seven curricular requirements: Requirement U: Introduction to Urban Studies (1 course) Organize and present group research projects.Ī minimum of 42 credits is required to complete the Urban Studies major.Communicate ideas effectively in written or oral form.Articulate a well-defined research question, conduct independent research using primary sources and a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, and write a substantive research paper.Demonstrate understanding of the history and variety of urban forms and governance structures.Demonstrate familiarity with a particular disciplinary approach to the city as an object of study.Explain how the idea of the city varies in different historical and comparative contexts.Apply basic skills of empirical reasoning to an urban problem.Describe the distinctive social, cultural, and spatial features of cities and illustrate their impacts on the urban experience.Apply concepts or methods from more than one social science or adjacent discipline to analyze an urban issue or problem.Having successfully completed the major in Urban Studies, the student will be able to: We encourage our majors to use New York City as a laboratory, and many courses draw on the vast resources of the city and include an off-campus experience. This shared experience prepares them for their independent research project in their senior year. Through the two-semester junior colloquium, students study urban history and contemporary issues, and at the same time hone their interdisciplinary, analytical and research skills. Majors build an intellectual foundation that combines interdisciplinary coursework and a concentration of study within a single field. They explore the place of the city in different historical and comparative contexts, as well as in the human imagination. Students study the evolution and variety of urban forms and governance structures, which create opportunities for, as well as constrain, the exercise of human agency, individual and collective. It recognizes the city as an amalgam of diverse peoples and their social, political, economic, and cultural interactions within a distinctive built environment.
The Barnard–Columbia Urban Studies program enables students to explore and understand the urban experience in all of its richness and complexity. Post-9/11 GI Bill® and the Yellow Ribbon Programĭepartment Assistant: Valerie Coates Mission.
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