Urban Studies Minor
The urban studies minor requires 18 credit hours, selected from at least three disciplines with a maximum of 9 hours from any one discipline, to include:
A minimum of 6 hours to be selected from the following core courses:
Regional and Urban Economics | 3 | |
Urban Geography | 3 | |
U.S. Urban History | 3 | |
Urban Politics | 3 |
A minimum of 3 hours with a service learning, internship or independent research component. These courses should include but are not be restricted to:
Internship in Criminology & Criminal Justice | 3 | |
Urban and Business Applications of Geographic Information Systems | 3 | |
Oral History Field Research Seminar | 3 | |
Civic Literacy Internships | 3 | |
Applied Sociology | 3 | |
Service-Learning in the Latino Community | 3 |
9 additional hours of relevant coursework from the list of approved Urban Studies courses or approved by the Urban Studies adviser, to be completed subject to the distributional requirements.
No course may be applied to both a student's major and minor requirements. If one of the above courses is required for a student's major, the student may substitute another approved course in the minor. The student would not be required to complete a second Internship or service-learning course.
Urban Studies Approved Courses
Other relevant courses may be applied to the minor with the approval of the associate dean of AddRan College.
Urban Anthropology | 3 | |
Food Justice | 3 | |
Multiculturalism in the Criminal Justice System | 3 | |
Japan: Environment, Technology, and Sustainability | 3 | |
Regional and Urban Economics | 3 | |
ENGL 30153 | Nature Writing in Nature | 3 |
ENGL 30203 | ||
U.S. Multi-Ethnic Literature | 3 | |
ENGL 30973 | ||
Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature | 3 | |
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | 3 | |
Applied Geography | 3 | |
Urban and Business Applications of Geographic Information Systems | 3 | |
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | 3 | |
Topics in German Culture | 3 | |
Living in London | 3 | |
History of Working People in America | 3 | |
U.S. Urban History | 3 | |
Oral History Field Research Seminar | 3 | |
Beer Drinkers, Hell Raisers, and Robber Barons: America in the Gilded Age and Progress Era | 3 | |
Practicing American and Texas Politics | 4 | |
POSC 30303 | ||
Civic Literacy Internships | 3 | |
Social Problems | 3 | |
Applied Sociology | 3 | |
Sustainability: Environmental, Social & Economic Issues | 3 | |
The Hispanic City | 3 | |
Service-Learning in the Latino Community | 3 |