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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.