The minor in Urban and Community Studies is an interdisciplinary minor with a focus on educating citizens on the multiple dimensions of urban and community life and preparing students for careers in public and community service. While available with any undergraduate major, this minor provides an especially appropriate complement to majors in the social sciences, as well as departments and schools that emphasize human services such as Human Development and Family Sciences or Education.

Requirements

The minor requires passing 15 credits at the 2000 or above level. A writing course is not required for the minor, but students may register for these sections if offered.

1. Required Core: URBN 2000 Introduction to Urban and Community Studies/URBN 2000W
2. Core: Two of the following with no more than one per department(Cross-listed courses count towards the non-URBN department):

   Course List

   Course	Title	Credits
   ECON 2439	Urban Development and Policy	3
   ECON 2456	Economics of Poverty	3
   GEOG 3200/3200W/URBN 3200/3200W	Urban Geography	3
   GEOG 2000	Globalization	3
   GEOG 2400E	Introduction to Sustainable Cities	3
   GEOG 4210	Urban and Regional Planning	3
   HIST 2541/2541W/URBN 2541/2541W	The History of Urban America	3
   HIST 3554	Immigrants and the Shaping of American History	3
   HIST/AFRA 3564	African American History Since 1865	3
   HIST 3674/LLAS 3220	History of Latinos/as in the United States	3
   POLS 3842	Public Administration	3
   or PP 3031
   POLS 3632/3632W/URBN 3632/3632W	Urban Politics	3
   PP 4034	Social Policy	3
   SOCI 2820/2820W	Sociological Perspectives on Poverty	3
   SOCI 2901/2901W/URBN 2901/2901W	Urban Sociology	3
   SOCI 3425	Social Welfare and Social Work	3
   URBN 2600	Work and Economic Justice	3
   URBN 3400E	Urban Parks and Sustainability	3

3. Supporting: Two additional courses selected from Group 2 or the following list:

   Course List

   Course	Title	Credits
   ANTH 3150/3150W	Migration	3
   ECON 2327	Information Technology for Economics	3
   ECON 2328/2328W		3
   ECON 2431	Economics of Taxation and Government Spending	3
   ECON 3431/3431W	Public Economics	3
   ECON 3439/3439W/URBN 3439	Urban and Regional Economics	3
   EDLR 3547/3547W	Introduction to Sport Based Youth Development	4
   ENGL 3235W		3
   GEOG/CE 2500	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems	4
   GEOG 3000	Race, Sex, Space, and Place	3
   GEOG 3500Q	Geographic Data Analysis	3
   GEOG 4200W		3
   HIST/AAAS 2530	Asian American Experience Since 1850	3
   HIST/AMST 2550	Crime, Policing, and Punishment in the United States	3
   HIST/URBN 2650	History of Urban Latin America	3
   HIST 3102	Topics in Public History	3
   HIST 3520	Social and Cultural History of Connecticut and New England	3
   HIST/AFRA/HRTS 3563	African American History to 1865	3
   HIST/AFRA/AMST/MUSI 3568	Hip Hop, Politics and Youth Culture in America	3
   HDFS 2001	Diversity Issues in Human Development and Family Sciences	3
   HDFS 3110	Social and Community Influence on Children in the United States	3
   HDFS 3510	Planning and Managing Human Service Programs	3
   HDFS 3530	Public Policy and the Family	3
   HDFS 3540	Child Welfare, Law and Social Policy	3
   INTD 3584	Seminar in Urban Problems	3
   NRE 3265	Sustainable Urban Ecosystems	3
   POLS 2072Q	Quantitative Analysis in Political Science	3
   POLS 2622	State and Local Government	3
   POLS/HRTS 3212	Comparative Perspectives on Human Rights	3
   POLS 3240E		3
   POLS 3406/3406W	Globalization and Political Change	3
   POLS 3617	American Political Economy	3
   POLS/AFRA 3642	African-American Politics	3
   POLS 3662/LLAS 3270	Latino Political Behavior	3
   POLS 3847	The Policy-making Process	3
   PP/URBN 2100	Survey Research Methods	3
   PP 3020/3020W		3
   PP/AFRA 3033/POLS 3633	Race and Policy	3
   SOCI 2301/2301W	Criminology	3
   SOCI 2510/2510W/AFRA 2510	Ethnicity and Race	3
   SOCI/AFRA/HRTS 2530	African Americans and Social Protest	3
   SOCI 2651/2651W	Sociology of the Family	3
   SOCI 2655/2655W	Sociology of Carework	3
   SOCI 2670/2670W	Sociology of Religion	3
   SOCI 2680/2680W/WGSS 2680/2680W	Sociology of Sexualities	3
   SOCI 2705E	Sociology of Food	3
   SOCI 2709E/2709WE	Society and Climate Change	3
   SOCI 2907/2907W	City Life	3
   SOCI 3201	Methods of Social Research	3
   SOCI 3459/3459W		3
   or HDFS 3245	Aging in American Society
   SOCI 3601/3601W	Sociology of Gender	3
   SOCI 3903/3903W/URBN 3276/3276W	Urban Problems	3
   STAT 2215Q	Introduction to Statistics II	3
   URBN 2301Q	Research Methods and Analysis in Urban and Community Studies	3
   URBN 2302/2302W	Qualitative Methods in Urban and Community Studies	3
   URBN/AMST 2400	City and Community in Film	3
   URBN 2998	Variable Topics	3
   URBN 3981/3991	Internship in Urban Studies: Seminar (three credits combined)	3
   or INTD 3594	Urban Semester Field Work Seminar
   URBN 3993	Foreign Study	1-6
   URBN 3995	Special Topics	1-6
   URBN 4999	Independent Study	1-6

Students interested in pursuing a minor in Urban and Community Studies are advised to complete 1000-level courses in the social sciences which may be prerequisites for courses in the Urban and Community Studies minor. These include but are not limited to:

Course List

Course	Title	Credits
GEOG/URBN 1200	Global Urbanization	3
ECON 1201	Principles of Microeconomics	3
POLS 1602	Introduction to American Politics	3
PP 1001	Introduction to Public Policy	3
SOCI 1001	Introduction to Sociology	3
SOCI 1251	Social Problems	3
STAT 1000Q/1100Q	Introduction to Statistics I	4
URBN 1300/1300W	Exploring Your Community	3
URBN 1400/1400W	Site and Sound: Understanding Cities Through Popular Music	3
URBN 1600	Cities of Imagination	3

They should also plan on enrolling in URBN 2000 Introduction to Urban and Community Studies as soon as possible.

The minor is offered by the Urban and Community Studies Program.