Majors build an intellectual foundation that combines interdisciplinary coursework and a concentration of study within a single field. Through the two-semester junior colloquium, students study urban history and contemporary issues, and at the same time hone their interdisciplinary, analytical and research skills.
This shared experience prepares them for their independent research project in their senior year. We encourage our majors to use New York City as a laboratory, and many courses draw on the vast resources of the city and include an off-campus experience. The Barnard—Columbia Urban Studies program offers courses in urban sociology, science and technology in urban environments, urban case studies in spacial analysis, community building and economic development, urban development, civic engagement, and social entrepreneurship.
For questions about specific courses, contact the department. Some of these face-to-face courses will be offered in the HyFlex format to ensure that all of our students can make progress toward their degree requirements, if faced with delays due to student visas or vaccination effectiveness wait times. Courses Expand All. Students create maps using ArcGIS software, analyze the physical and social processes presented in the digital model, and use the data to solve specific spatial analysis problems.
Note: this course does not fulfill the C requirement in Urban Studies. Prerequisite Must attend first class for instructor permission. This course does not fulfill the C requirement for Urban Studies majors. While most contributors are in the Urban Planning department, students from all disciplines are encouraged to submit work and have been featured in past issues.
Browse the most recent issue, Volume Reimagine here. Issue Reimagine. Issue dialogues. Issue Emergence. The one-year postgraduate degree spans three intensive semesters and is open to young professionals holding architecture or landscape architecture degrees. The Program frames Urban Design as both an inclusive, activist, tools-based practice for specific sites and communities, and as a critical project examining urban form, knowledge and research.
Urban Planning. The Columbia University Master of Science in Urban Planning is an accredited two-year program of professional education. In the remainder of the semester, we will turn our focus to contemporary processes of urbanization, with a particular emphasis on the complex interrelationship between urban and rural China.
This portion of the semester is organized into three two-week units on land and planning, housing and demolition, and citizenship and personhood. This course examines the history of cities in the Americas in the colonial era, c. First, we study the precolonial origins of American urban systems, focusing especially on Mesoamerica and the Andes, and exploring questions of urban continuity, disruption and change, and the forms of indigenous cities.
Second, we study various patterns of city foundations and city types across the Americas, examining Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch and French colonial urban systems. Third, we focus on the cities more closely by looking at key issues such as urban form, built environment, social structure.
Specific themes include a critical analysis of the Spanish colonial grid, the baroque city, and 18th-century urban reforms, as well as race and class, urban slavery, and urban disease environments. In our readings and class discussions over the course of the semester, we will trace how professionalized, modern police forces took shape in cities across the region over time. This course actually begins, however, in the colonial period before there was anything that we would recognize as a modern, uniformed, state-run police force.
We will thus have a broad perspective from which to analyze critically the role of police in the development of Latin American urban societies—in other words, to see the police in the contemporary era as contingent on complex historical processes, which we will seek to understand. This course asks how spatial politics intersect with economic inequality and social difference. That is, we ask how distinct yet connected urban forms might force us to alter our approaches to the city; approaches that are largely drawn from modular Euro-American paradigms for understanding urbanization as coeval with modernity, as well as industrialization.
How can we rethink critical concepts in urban studies precarity, spatial segregation, subalternity, economies of eviction, urban dispossession through embedded studies of locality and lifemaking? This course covers the historical development of cities in Latin America. Readings examine the concentration of people in commercial and political centers from the beginnings of European colonization in the sixteenth century to the present day and will introduce contrasting approaches to the study of urban culture, politics, society, and the built environment.
Open to both undergraduate and graduate students; graduate students will be given additional reading and writing assignments. ColumbiaCollege columbia. Columbia College. Toggle Navigation Toggle Navigation. Student Learning Outcomes Having successfully completed the major in Urban Studies, the student will be able to: Apply concepts or methods from more than one social science or adjacent discipline to analyze an urban issue or problem. Describe the distinctive social, cultural, and spatial features of cities and illustrate their impacts on the urban experience.
Apply basic skills of empirical reasoning to an urban problem. Explain how the idea of the city varies in different historical and comparative contexts. Demonstrate familiarity with a particular disciplinary approach to the city as an object of study.
Demonstrate understanding of the history and variety of urban forms and governance structures. Articulate a well-defined research question, conduct independent research using primary sources and a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, and write a substantive research paper. Communicate ideas effectively in written or oral form. Organize and present group research projects. Please consult the program website or the Associate Director Requirement D: Specialization 5 courses Five or more courses in a specialization from one of the participating departments.
Requirement F: Senior Seminar 2 courses An original senior thesis written in conjunction with a two-semester research seminar on a topic of your choice. There is no minor in Urban Studies. There is no concentration in Urban Studies. Introduction to the historical process and social consequences of urban growth, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present Spring URBS UN In doing so, the course will engage with the many of the most heated theoretical debates about urbanization, equipping students with a set of comparative analytical tools with which to explore the wider field of urban studies Spring URBS UN Open to both undergraduate and graduate students; graduate students will be given additional reading and writing assignments Spring HIST GU
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