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Urban Studies

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Cities are physical environments—they are social settings, economic phenomena and political arenas. An understanding of these complex social structures can come only from an analysis that transcends the narrow perspective of any single discipline. The minor in urban studies offers students a chance to study the processes and problems of urbanization from a variety of perspectives. It is designed with enough flexibility to allow a student to choose among many possible combinations, but requires one to experience at least three different disciplinary approaches.
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Requirements & Courses

Director

Randy Bartlett, Professor of Economics

Advisers
  • Randy Bartlett, Economics
  • Reid Bertone-Johnson, Landscape Studies
  • Rick Fantasia, Sociology
  • Sam Intrator, Education and Child Study
  • Steven Moga, Landscape Studies

The minor consists of six courses from at least three different departments or programs. Courses offered at other Five College campuses may be included in the minor, with the approval of one of the advisors. Each student will craft an individual minor with their advisor, which may include course from the "Courses" tab or the catalog, but may also include other courses not listed.

The minor consists of six courses from the following list but must contain choices from at least three different departments or programs. Courses offered at other Five College campuses may be included in the minor, with the approval of one of the advisers.

Africana Studies

  • AFR 245 The Harlem Renaissance
  • AFR 278 The ’60s: A History of Afro-Americans in the United States from 1954 to 1970

Anthropology

  • ANT 257 Urban Anthropology

Art

  • ARH 212 Ancient Cities and Sanctuaries
  • ARH 250 Building Baroque Europe
  • ARH 266 Architecture in the United States of America
  • ARH 283 Architecture Since 1945 
  • ARH 285 Great Cities
  • ARS 388 Advanced Architecture: Complex Places, Multiple Spaces

Economics

  • ECO 230 Urban Economics

Education

  • EDC 200 Education in the City

Government

  • GOV 204 Urban Politics

History

  • HST 267 United States Since 1877

Landscape Studies

  • LSS 230 Urban Landscapes

Sociology

  • SOC 213 Race and National Identity in the United States
  • SOC 214 Sociology of Hispanic Carribean Communities in the United States
  • SOC 218 Urban Sociology

 

Faculty

Reid Bertone-Johnson

Lecturer in Landscape Studies

Rick Fantasia

Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology

Sam Intrator

Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Education & Child Study

Steven T. Moga

Associate Professor of Landscape Studies

Contact

Urban Studies

Wright Hall 226
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
Phone: 413-585-3510
Email: socsciadmin@smith.edu

Administrative Assistant: 
Lisa DeCarolis-Osepowicz

Individual appointments may be arranged directly with the faculty.

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