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)

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

• ARTH 265 The City as a Work of Art (3)
• ARTH 275 The History of Land Design (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)

Electives

Complete 6 additional credit hours from the Urban Policy and Social Problems List, the Urban Planning and Administration List, or the Sustainable Urbanism List. Courses used to satisfy the above requirement cannot be used below.  Students must complete the 6 credit hours from within the same 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.