Urban Studies Minor

Minor Requirements

Credit Hours: 18

In addition to completing the requirements for this minor, students must also complete the minor requirements specified in the Academic Regulations  section of this catalog.

Required introduction course (3 credit hours):

• URST 101 Introduction to Urban Studies (3)

Select 9 credit hours from the list of Theory and Practice Courses:

• ARTH 265 The City as a Work of Art (3)
• BIOL 204 Humans and the Environment (3)
• ECON 307 Urban Economics (3)
• GEOL 213 Natural Hazards (3)
• GEOG 219 Reading the Lowcountry Landscape (3)
• HIST 211 American Urban History (3)
• HIST 320 Special Topics in Lowcountry History (3)
• HIST 323 Society and Culture of Early Charleston (3)
• HPCP 275 History of Land Design (3)
• HPCP 315 Urban Design Studio (3)
• POLI 305 Urbanization and Urban Geography (3)
• POLI 306 Urban Policy (3)
• POLI 310 Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (3)
• POLI 322 Urban Government and Politics (3)
• POLI 333 Suburbia: People, Places, and Politics (3)
• POLI 391 Utopia/Dystopia (3)
• SOCY 351 Urban Sociology (3)
• URST 310 Urban Planning (3)
• URST 320 Town and Country Planning (3)
• URST 401 Independent Study (1-3)
• HIST 251 The Modern City (3)

Select 6 additional credit hours from the Urban Policy and Social Problems List, the Urban Planning and Administration List, or the Sustainable Urbanism List.

Notes:

• No more than 6 credit hours from URST 397  may be applied towards the program requirements.
• No more than 6 credit hours from URST 398  may be applied towards the program requirements.
• No more than 6 credit hours from URST 399  may be applied towards the program requirements.
• No more than 6 credit hours from URST 401  may be applied towards the program requirements.