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URBNST 1408 - GLOBAL CITY - FLORENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1410 - GLOBAL CITY - LONDON
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1412 - ISLAM, POLITICS AND BRITAIN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1414 - GLOBAL CITY - SYDNEY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1416 - ANALYZING & EXPLORING THE GLOBAL CITY: BUENOS AIRES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1418 - GLOBAL CITY - SHANGHAI
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This three-credit course is designed to encourage students to engage in a critical analysis of the development of modern Shanghai. It is a municipality that already exhibits the key characteristics of many global cities. Students will discuss what that concept means in general terms, and in ways that re specific to Shanghai. Students will explore how this city has been imagined, invented, and transformed by the forces of foreign engagement, industrialization, and globalization. The cityscape and social landscape of Shanghai are the “texts” that student will explore, interpret, and analyze.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1420 - CITY SYMPHONY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1422 - URBAN SCAVENGER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1500 - URBAN RESEARCH SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Urban Research Seminar focuses the knowledge and skills, which the student has gained through the program, on a particular topic. The specific topic varies from term to term and faculty member to faculty member, but it always concerns an issue of relevance to the immediate Pittsburgh environment. Examples include riverfront development, the impact of Reagan’s cutbacks, the redevelopment of East Liberty, etc. To investigate the topic students will review secondary sources as well as collect and analyze their own information through interviews, field trips, surveys, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: URBNST 0080 and 1300PLAN: Urban Studies (BA or BPH)
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URBNST 1502 - FIELD ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL URBANISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course presents University of Pittsburgh students with the opportunity to travel to Singapore and Malaysia for a two-week Urban Studies field course, guided by Pitt faculty. This 3-credit IFTA (integrated Field Trip Abroad) is a base three-credit course that facilitates comparative analysis of urban processes in two strategic Southeast Asian cities. This course is available to all Pitt undergraduates, and does not include any prerequisite courses. The course consists of lectures and site visits to places of significant urban interest in both Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Students will complete readings and discussions about urban processes in both cities, and will develop a blog and independent reports about these places. The content for this three-credit course will be contained within the two-week field course, and will focus on Asian urbanization, consumption, and sustainable city development.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1504 - ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL FIELD PLACEMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course presents Urban Studies students with the opportunity to travel to Singapore and Malaysia for a two-week Urban Studies field course, guided by Pitt faculty. This 3-credit IFTA (integrated Field Trip Abroad) is a three-credit course that supplements URBNST 1502, and your domestic research courses (URBNST 1300 & URBNST 1500). Therefore, it is expected that you will have previously completed 1300 and 1500, and be taking URBNST 1502 concurrently with this course. The course focuses upon design and implementation of a pilot research project that attempts a comparative analysis of some aspect of urbanism within Southeast Asia. Students will work in teams to complete this project, under the supervision of Pitt Faculty. This three-credit course will be preceded by five pre-departure meetings, and the research project should in some way focus on one of the course themes.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1608 - URBAN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Participants in this course will learn about the evolving forms of metropolitan government and governance in the United States, with a special focus on the post-1992 period. Course units examine the history and contemporary shape of urban politics, and the opportunities and challenges facing local communities during the 21st century. By the end of the course students will be able to appraise how the contemporary landscape of regional governance in the United States is affecting specific cities.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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URBNST 1610 - URBAN POLITICS AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Participants in this course will learn about how the evolving forms of neoliberalism are shaping metropolitan government and governance. Course units examine the history and contemporary shape of urban politics, and the opportunities and challenges facing local communities during the 21st Century. By the end of the course students will be able to appraise how the contemporary landscape of urban and regional politics is affecting citizens and communities in the United States and internationally. The course consists of lectures, in-class discussions, films, student presentations and exams. Students will read a range of current and topical materials from sources including national newspapers, academic publications, policy documents and global case studies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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URBNST 1612 - SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE CITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Social justice and economic justice are popular buzz-words that are closely tied to urban environments: but what do they really mean, and how can we understand them? URBNST 1612 uses critical social geography to interrogate both historical and contemporary social justice movements that claim to protect human rights, fair housing, or to expand definitions of public space and citizenship. Taken together these agendas form a powerful prescription for social action, one often emerging in urban settings. Using a combination of lectures, Concept Mapping exercises, and case studies, we will examine the historical and theoretical context for social justice in the city and then evaluate different geographies of social change. By the end of the course students will be able to use a critical perspective to understand how the rhetoric of social justice is changing the urban geographies of specific cities worldwide.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1613 - SUSTAINABLE CITIES 1: THEORIES AND CONCEPTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1614 - URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides a critical introduction to the concept of sustainability in relation to cities in the United States and internationally. We will investigate how the fuzzy concept of sustainability has developed, and look at how principles of urban sustainability are put into practice. In particular, we will look at the Pittsburgh city-region, and draw on examples from Singapore, Auckland (New Zealand), and Tianjin (China). In particular, the class will concentrate on how sustainability is embedded in planning urban structures, organizing for sustainable communities, and mitigating environmental risks and vulnerability. Students will hear from a variety of professionals engaged in sustainable urbanism, and learn about specific tools used to assess sustainability at different geographic scales.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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URBNST 1615 - SUSTAINABLE CITIES 2: FIELD RESEARCH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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URBNST 1616 - RENT, BUY OR SQUAT: HOUSING AND PROPERTY IN US CITIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Housing is the basic building block of the city. Whether you rent or own, shelter is a basic necessity for urban life, but how does housing work? This survey course explores the changing forms of urban housing in the United States, and introduces you to the people and organizations responsible for housing from developers, bankers and landlords to local, federal, and non-profit agencies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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URBNST 1700 - INTERNATIONAL URBANISM SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
It is undeniable that the world has become integrated through the globalization of social, political, cultural and economic activity. Cities worldwide have been markedly affected by globalization, but in turn have played a role in the process. By utilizing published material, films, slides and the internet, this course will compare the economic, social, political, historical and cultural differences between different global cities as they struggle to survive in the twenty-first century.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: URBNST 0080
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URBNST 1708 - WORLD URBAN PATTERNS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
On May 23, 2007, for the first time in human history, more of the world’s population became urban than rural. This course explores two related aspects of global urbanization: changing patterns of urban growth and urbanization, and similarities and differences in the nature of urban processes at the regional level. This course begins by exploring the causes of urbanization, factors driving urban growth, impacts of globalization, and regional variations in urbanization levels at a variety of scales including the global north and global south. In contrast, the second part of the course focuses on the differences and similarities in the characteristics of the economic, social, demographic, and cultural processes that shape urban places and urban life in different regions of the world. The optics covered include, but are not limited to, residential and commercial gentrification, residential segregation, gates communities, common interest developments, and sustainability.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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URBNST 1900 - URBAN FIELD PLACEMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 6
This course gives the Urban Studies major the opportunity to get off the campus and into the community. It allows the student to relate his or her academic training to a real world situation by working in an urban related organization or agency. The student works under the combined supervision of the agency personnel and the urban studies advisor. The student is required to keep a journal, attend scheduled meetings with other field placement students and write a final reflective paper.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
Course Requirements: PLAN: Urban Studies (BA or BPH)
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URBNST 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Individual project administered under the supervision of a faculty member.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Urban Studies (BA or BPH)
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URBNST 1903 - URBAN STUDIES HONORS THESIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is only for people who will be writing an honors thesis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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VIET 0101 - VIETNAMESE 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
The greatest part of the first term will be devoted to the presentation and practice of the basic sound patterns of the language, its fundamental sentence patterns, and sufficient vocabulary to illustrate and practice them. An introduction to the writing system will be offered together with the opportunity to acquire elementary writing and reading skills.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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VIET 0102 - VIETNAMESE 2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
At the end of the second term of the first year of study the student should be able to produce all the significant sound patterns of the language, to recognize and use the major grammatical structures within a limited core vocabulary. The student should be able a) to engage in simple conversations with native speakers about a limited number of everyday situations and b) to read and write simple material related to the situations presented.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0581 or VIET 0101; MIN GRADE: ‘C’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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VIET 0103 - VIETNAMESE 3
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The first term of the second year will concentrate on the further development of fluency in oral production and the improvement in the student’s ability to understand the flow of speech as uttered by a native speaker. Increased attention will be paid to readings as a means of augmenting a recognition vocabulary and writing as a drill and as a means of consolidating and communicating the knowledge gained.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0582 or VIET 0102; MIN GRADE: ‘C’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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VIET 0104 - VIETNAMESE 4
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
At the end of the second term of the second year the student should be able to converse comfortably with a native speaker on a variety of non-specialized subjects. The student will be offered an opportunity to experience and more fully understand the culture of the people who use the language through readings of various types. More complex writing tasks will be expected at this level.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0583 or VIET 0103; MIN GRADE: ‘C’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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VIET 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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VIET 1905 - UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT IN VIETNAMESE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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VIET 1909 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN VIETNAMESE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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