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	Urban Studies Minor Program
		The Urban Studies Minor deals with the transformation of rural land into urban landscape and the dynamic movement of the world’s population into cities and metropolitan regions.
		Urban Studies focuses on the key issues of the contemporary world such as environmental pollution, community and economic development, jobs, housing, the delivery of public services, transportation, and urban policy and planning.
		The Urban Studies Minor is an interdisciplinary minor housed in the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies.
	frontpage.montclair.edu /taylorr/urban_studies_minor_program.htm (561 words)

	Urban Studies
		Urban Studies in the Geography Department at Southern Connecticut State University, is dedicated to providing a high caliber of quality education to advance knowledge through study, practice, and research.
		The Urban Studies Program aims to equip students with the tools and techniques of appropriate urban policy and planning, which are culturally relevant, embracing community level collaboration and positive responses to cultural group conflict in differentiated cities.
		The Urban Studies Program is designed to enable students to evaluate and integrate knowledge, skills, values and ethics, and to impart tools for scholarship, critical thinking and leadership, emanating from the educational process and experience at Southern Connecticut State University.
	www.southernct.edu /departments/urbanstudies (203 words)

	Social Work Scholar Heads Tri-Campus Urban Studies Program - September 24, 2001
		The program, leading to an undergraduate degree in urban studies, prepares students to be city planners, town government officials, economic development leaders, or other service providers in the public or private sectors.
		Fisher says offering urban studies in the tri-campus program is a "perfect fit." The program offers students who are interested in cities the opportunity to remain and study there, he says.
		"Boosting the urban studies program will ultimately have a positive effect on Connecticut cities by providing students who will be well trained to handle urban issues, and faculty who can bring their research expertise to bear on urban problems in the state," Fisher says.
	www.advance.uconn.edu /2001/010924/01092411.htm (759 words)

	University of Chester: Academic Programmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Urban Studies critically explores these developments, and has a strong emphasis on delivering the skills and practical experience needed for a career or further study in this vibrant employment area.
		Urban Studies is offered as part of a combined honours degree at Chester.
		Urban Studies is also a thriving area for postgraduate study and research.
	www.chester.ac.uk /undergraduate/urban.html (1068 words)

	SDSU Urban Studies Program
		An understanding of the adaptations humans have made in past and present societies to the conditions of urban life serves as the basis for a study of broad issues and theoretical concerns.
		In lectures, class discussions, and practical field studies connected with specific courses, students have the opportunity to gain knowledge regarding urban problems and analyze areas such as housing, land use and growth, border issues, organization and management of urban governments, transportation, urban decline, neighborhoods, recreation, and social conflict.
		Urban studies is administered by the Urban Studies Committee, chaired by the urban studies program coordinator.
	arweb.sdsu.edu /es/admissions/ab/urbanstudies.htm (575 words)

	Urban Studies - San Francisco Art Institute
		Urban Studies at SFAI is a new studio and research-based program developed specifically to address the contributions of art, artists, and researchers to the urban domain.
		The rapid growth of urban populations and the rise of cities as the primary spaces of human dwelling have transformed the way we think of social, political, economic, and cultural relationships.
		The Urban Studies program at SFAI integrates courses and resources from both the School of Studio Practice and the School of Interdisciplinary Studies to create a unique platform for learning and engaging with the world.
	www.sfai.edu /Page.aspx?page=206 (402 words)

	Urban Studies - About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Urban studies is the attempt to understand cities and city life.
		Using the conceptual tools supplied by architecture, sociology, art history, anthropology, environmental studies, economics, history, literature, and political science, urban studies both focuses on cities as distinctive entities and explores the meaning and function of cities in the larger society.
		Urban studies also examines the processes that produce certain patterns of human settlement and charts the changing relationships among areas shaped by urbanization, such as metropolis and countryside, city and suburb, and municipality and region.
	www.yale.edu /urbanstudies/about.html (349 words)

	SFSU Urban Studies Undergraduate Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Urban studies offers students the opportunity to develop a broad liberal arts education focused upon the task of addressing critical issues in contemporary urban society.
		The urban studies major is also an excellent foundation for graduate work in a variety of fields including planning, public policy, public and nonprofit administration, and law.
		The urban studies minor is an excellent complement to any of the social science majors as well as to pre-professional majors like journalism or social work.
	www.sfsu.edu /~puboff/programs/undergrad/urban.htm (834 words)

	Urban Studies - Macalester College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Urban Studies Program is led by a steering committee composed of faculty members representing four of the core academic departments involved in the Urban Studies Program.
		Because of the interdisciplinary nature of Urban Studies, faculty for the program consist of regular members of the core departments of Economics, Education, Geography, Political Science and History.
		George Latimer, Professor of Urban Studies, one of the country's leading authorities on urban issues, has a special interest in public-private partnerships that encourage growth and development of affordable housing.
	www.macalester.edu /urbanstudies/faculty (390 words)

	Urban Studies
		Urban Studies may be linked with an honours double-major interdisciplinary BA program in the Faculty of Arts.
		The 42-credit honours BA in Urban Studies may be pursued jointly with any honours minor BA program in the Faculties of Arts, Environmental Studies or Fine Arts, or with certain minors in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science.
		An honours minor in Urban Studies may be pursued jointly with an honours-major BA program in the Faculties of Arts, Environmental Studies or Fine Arts, or with certain majors in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science.
	www.arts.yorku.ca /sosc/urbanst/degree.html (610 words)

	Urban Studies
		Introduction to the study of cities using an interdisciplinary approach that includes history, sociology, planning, economics, and political science; emphasis on the roots of contemporary African-American community problems; integration of the field of urban studies with the student's everyday experience.
		The principles of map-making and the use of presentation graphics in urban planning and research applications; the use of maps and graphics in the analysis of social, economic, and demographic associations of the built environment; basic elements of geographic information systems.
		Study of diversity, including circumstances faced in urban settings that are exacerbated or affected by diversity factors; exploration of a range of social, political, and economic issues related to diversity.
	www.csuohio.edu /undergradcatalog00/courses/courindex/ust.htm (1719 words)

	URBAN STUDIES - TACOMA
		While the course is traditional in its concern with urban poverty, race, ethnicity, and immigration, it offers a vocabulary of citizenship and rights to investigate urban inequalities and how various populations experience them.
		Interdisciplinary study of U.S. urban history, contemporary social, cultural and policy research and comparative perspectives on race and ethnicity to illuminate the growth and evolution of African American urban communities.
		Urban Studies courses taken through UWT foreign study program for which there are no direct UWT course equivalents.
	www.washington.edu /students/crscatt/turb.html (1325 words)

	Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome
		Urban Studies is a world class journal providing an international forum for the discussion of issues in the fields of urban and regional analysis and planning.
		A hallmark of the journal is that it publishes leading articles from urban scholars working from within a variety of disciplines, including geography, economics, sociology, political science as well as planning and public administration.
		The journal aims to provide theoretically and empirically informed analysis of the myriad changes affecting the urban and regional condition in the economically advanced nations as well as less developed economies.
	www.tandf.co.uk /journals/titles/00420980.asp (142 words)

	Urban Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Urban Studies seeks to understand the physical, social, economic, demographic, political, and environmental implications of urbanization and urbanism.
		Graduates with the MS in Urban Studies will possess a broad range of technical skills and an understanding of the problems and challenges of contemporary urban society.
		Students enter the MS in Urban Studies with a variety of undergraduate degrees and a range of interests.
	www.unomaha.edu /graduate/catalog/2002-2003/degree/urban.html (1077 words)

	Canisius College - Undergraduate Catalog - Urban Studies
		The Urban Studies Program is designed to prepare students for professional work in urban and public administrative fields, and to give students who enter other fields a broad understanding of the urban context in which they will live their lives.
		Since no one approach to understanding and resolving such complex problems is sufficient, the Urban Studies Program acquaints students with a variety of approaches to, and tools for, analyzing the interrelationships of the 20th century urban milieu.
		However, satisfactory performance in basic Urban Studies courses is required for admission to the Internship and Independent Study.
	www.canisius.edu /catalog/2001_2003/urban.asp (862 words)

	Urban Studies
		Urban studies majors use the tools of sociology, economics, and other social sciences to study city life, government, and services.
		As an urban studies major, you will be looking at problems and events that affect city residents, so it’s important to want to understand and help people.
		Is urban studies its own major, a concentration in a larger major such as sociology, or is it made up of classes from a variety of other majors?
	www.collegeboard.com /csearch/majors_careers/profiles/majors/45.1201.html (437 words)

	College Majors and Careers - Urban Studies and Public Health
		Urban studies helps students relate their analysis of urban issues to actual practices in professional management and planning careers.
		Urban studies majors enter planning and management careers with architectural and engineering firms, public planning agencies, contractors, and investment companies.
		Urban studies professionals play a crucial role in planning and improving a wide array of public programs ranging from transportation and housing to health care, economic development, and urban renewal.
	careerservices.rutgers.edu /Murbanstudies.html (294 words)

	URBAN STUDIES STUDENT HANDBOOK
		Urban Studies majors have an opportunity to learn and apply concepts through courses of study that include core requirements in urban politics, history, economics, sociology, research methods and statistics.
		Urban Studies is relevant to many majors and minors at the College.
		The study of history provides breadth in the understanding of the human condition and is instrumental in the development of research, analytical and communicative skills that are relevant to historical societies, government service, education and politics.
	www.cofc.edu /urbanstudies/handbook.html (3456 words)

	URBAN STUDIES
		Urban Studies is an interdisciplinary program providing an undergraduate course of study which focuses on providing solutions to the major problems stemming from the complexities of contemporary urban life.
		Certain courses taken at CSU International Program Study Centers in foreign countries are equivalent to courses in Urban Studies and may be used to fulfill some of the requirements for the degree and/or general education requirements.
		ANTH 345 Ethnicity in the U.S. ANTH 346 Urban Anthropology
	www.csun.edu /search/cat9698/UrbanStudies.htm (1033 words)

	CURL \| Programs \| Urban Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Urban Studies is open to undergraduate students at Loyola University Chicago who are enrolled in the College of Arts and Science or any of the schools of the university.
		Urban Studies provides an opportunity to better understand the complexity of urban life and, moreover, to participate in improving the quality of life for urban residents and workers.
		Urban Studies is an interdisciplinary program of the College of Arts and Sciences.
	www.luc.edu /curl/programs/urban.shtml (556 words)

	Who Graduates? Who Doesn't?: A Statistical Portrait of Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This study, the latest in a series of investigations conducted by the Urban Institute, contributes to the growing body of knowledge in this field of inquiry by providing the most extensive set of systematic empirical findings on public school graduation rates in the United States available to date.
		This study also offers an exceptionally detailed perspective on the issue of high school completion by examining graduation rates for the overall student population, for specific racial and ethnic groups, and by gender.
		The goal of the Urban Institute's work and the detailed analysis presented in this report is to help decision makers and the public to better understand the depth and breadth of the nation's apparent high school graduation crisis and the factors that are associated with low graduation rates.
	www.urban.org /Template.cfm?NavMenuID=24&template=/TaggedContent/ViewPublication.cfm&PublicationID=8742 (1977 words)

	Urban Studies Courses \| Brooklyn Campus \| LIU
		This introductory course centers on readings in urban history and sociology in order to give graduate students a grasp of the language and literature of urban studies.
		A study of the poor as an evolving political force and of the establishment and recognition of their constitutional rights with a particular emphasis on the expanding interpretation of the Equal Protection and Due Process classes in the interest of the economically disadvantaged.
		Deals with such methods of studying, analyzing and describing metropolitan areas as bibliographical research, use of demographic data, construction of questionnaires, conducting interviews, and use of written and visual documentation.
	www.brooklyn.liu.edu /depts/urbanstudies/courses.html (1827 words)

	Bush Library Research Guide: Urban Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Urban Affairs Quarterly/Review is also available online in full-text with access from the Hamline University Library website from 01/01/1997 to 11/01/1998 in Expanded Academic ASAP and from 1981 to present in Sage Urban Studies and Planning.
		Urban Studies (Harlow) (Available online in full-text with access from the Hamline University Library website from 4/01/1994 to 6/01/2000 in Expanded Academic ASAP, From 8/01/1993 to 1 Year Ago in Academic Search Premier, From 8/01/1993 to 1 Year Ago in Academic Search Premier and From 8/01/1993 to 1 Year Ago in Business Source Premier.
		Urban Planning, 1794-1918 - An anthology of articles, conference papers, and reports related to the historical development of urban planning, hosted and edited by John W. Reps, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University.
	www.hamline.edu /bushlibrary/research_guides/urban_studies.html (2545 words)

	Portland State Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning \| About Us
		The Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning is the nation's oldest continuously operating instructional program in urban studies.
		Beginning with an undergraduate certificate in 1959, the School now offers a bachelor degree in community development, undergraduate minors in community development and real estate development, master degrees in urban and regional planning and urban studies, and doctoral degrees in urban studies and urban studies: regional science.
		Faculty interpret "the city" as including urban phenomena in all their global, national, regional, and local diversity.
	www.pdx.edu /usp/about.html (383 words)

	The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Urban Studies and Planning is an interdisciplinary program providing an undergraduate course of study which focuses on solutions to the major problems stemming from the complexities of contemporary urban life.
		The Urban Studies and Planning curriculum is composed of three closely integrated parts: lower division basic courses; an upper division core; and a related specialization.
		Certain courses taken at CSU International Program Study Centers in foreign countries are equivalent to courses in Urban Studies and Planning and may be used to fulfill some of the requirements for the degree and/or general education requirements.
	www.csun.edu /~hfoao078/program.html (408 words)

	Urban Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Urban Studies Co-Major Program is an undergraduate interdisciplinary course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with a co-major designation.
		`Urban' includes `suburban'; the spatial patternings of national urban networks as well as the inner life of individual cities; and broad historical, international comparative, economic or cultural concerns as well as specific practical problems.
		Upon the approval of an Urban Studies adviser, the student may also elect courses in philosophy, computer science, statistics, architectural drafting, journalism, or speech pertaining to mass media, or in colleges outside Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs-depending on the student's overall plan of study.
	www.bulletins.wayne.edu /ubk-output/ulm19.html (626 words)

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