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Urban Studies Minor
(No major is currently available.) An interdisciplinary minor in urban studies allows the student to examine, from a variety of perspectives, the development and impact of urbanization in the great metropolitan regions (comprising larger inner cities and suburban communities) in which a majority of the world’s population now lives. This minor is an excellent complement to many of Lake Forest College's majors and takes advantage of the College's location to increase hands-on learning opportunities.

Requirements

a) URBS 110: Introduction to Urban Studies

b) One Methods class, to be chosen from the following:

  • ECON 180: Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business
  • EDUC 210: Observing the Schooling Process
  • HIST 300: Theory and Methods
  • SOAN 310: Quantitative Methods
  • SOAN 311: Demography
  • SOAN 320: Qualitative Methods

c) Two Electives, to be chosen from the following or fulfilled in off-campus study (off-campus courses must be approved by a member of the Urban Studies committee):

  • AMST 200: Topics (in 2009-10, "Second City, Second Nature" will serve as substitute for URBS 110)
  • ART 221: Modern Architecture
  • ART 225: American Architecture
  • ART 322:  Site/Sight/Insight: The Art of the Land
  • ART 349: Cultural Landscape
  • COMM 285: Modern Media History
  • ECON 240: Urban Economics
  • ECON 270: Latin American Development
  • ECON 310: Industrial Organization
  • ECON 320: Labor in the American Economy
  • ECON 340: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
  • EDUC 212: School Reform in the U.S.
  • EDUC 270: History of Education
  • ENVR 315:  The Social Ethics of Energy Production and Use
  • HIST 121: Modern America
  • HIST 263: American Cities
  • HIST 363: Chicago: History and Public Memory
  • POLS 228: Urban and Suburban Politics
  • POLS 309: Equity and Social Justice in Schools
  • POLS 321: U.S. Energy and Environmental Policy
  • RELG 116: Chicago: A Rainbow of Religions
  • SOAN 189: City, Space and Place
  • SOAN 290: Social Problems and Social Policy
  • SOAN 354: Anthropology of Place
  • SOAN 361: Anthropology of Automobility (currently named "cultural anthropology")
  • THTR 227: Bringing Chicago's Art to Life
  • THTR 240: Theater in Chicago
  • THTR 330: Global Theater

d) Urban Internship

e) Urban Service Internship

Students who are interested in pursuing Urban Studies should contact Holly Swyers or Rami Levin for course advice.