Spring 2015 Urban and Community Studies Course Offerings
Revised of 11/10/14
Please note, due to unforeseen circumstances course information may periodically change. We will make every attempt to notify you via e-mail when we become aware of any significant changes to
our course offerings in the major. The schedule will be maintained on our website, including any updated changes as they arise. Please visit www.urban.uconn.edu , and then click on the “Degree
Information” tab at the top of our homepage then click on “Couse Schedues.” Once you are on our Course Schedule page, please click on the Spring 2015 semester link.
Course offerings for the various campuses are always available in the Student Admin System at https://student.studentadmin.uconn.edu/. A Dynamic Search can processed by clicking on the “Welcome
Guest” icon on the upper right-hand side.
Please Note: Courses with “W’s” in the major are noted in red.
General Education
Course Titles
New 4 Digit #
Hartford
Storrs
The City in the Western Tradition
URBN/GEOG 1200
M/W
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Ross-Reynolds
T/TH
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Atkison-Palombo
Exploring Your Community
URBN 1300W
M
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Agliano
Exploring Your Community
URBN 1300
Torrington
Waterbury
Stamford
Avery Point
T
5:35pm – 8:05pm
Annino
M/W
11:15am - 12:30pm
Birge-Liberman
T/TH
9:30am – 10:45am
Glasser
T
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Hall
W
9:30am – 12:00pm
Moulder
Additional general education courses
Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 1001
M/W
11:00am – 12:15pm
Levine
M/W/F
2:30pm-3:20pm
Hikel
T/TH
11:15am - 12:30pm
Eisenhandler
T
8:30am – 9:45am
Bunyan
Group I – Required Core Course
All UCS majors must take either URBN 2000 or URBN 2000W to graduate.
Student who declare UCS as their major effective academic year 2014/2015 must take URBN 2000(with or without a W) and URBN 4000 in order to graduate.
Course Title
New 4 Digit #
Hartford
Storrs
Introduction to Urban Studies
URBN 2000
TH
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Allen
URBN 4000
Online
Birge-Liberman
Understanding Your Community
***This course is open to UCS majors
in their Senior year***
Torrington
Waterbury
Stamford
T/TH
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Rojas
M/W
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Birge-Liberman
W
2:35pm – 5:15pm
Williams
Online
Birge-Liberman
Online
Birge-Liberman
Group II next page
Avery Point
Group II - Cores
Three of the following with no more than one per department:
(Cross-listed courses count towards the non-URBN department)
Course Title
New 4 Digit #
Economics of Poverty
ECON 2456
Urban and Regional Planning
GEOG 4210
Immigrants & the Shaping of American History
HIST 3554
African American History Since 1865
HIST 3564
Urban Politics
POLS/URBN 3632
Social Policy
PP 4034
Social Welfare & Social Work
SOCI 3425
Urban Sociology
SOCI 3901/URBN 3275
Urban Anthropology
URBN 3000
Urban Geography
URBN 3200
Hartford
Storrs
Torrington
Waterbury
Stamford
Avery Point
TH
6:00pm – 8:40pm
Glazer
T
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Poland
TH
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Sequin
W
2:35pm – 5:15pm
Cygan
T/TH
9:30am – 10:45am
Goodheart
M
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Cobb
T/TH
11:15am – 12:30pm
Lambe
M/W
9:30am – 10:45am
Waddell
W
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Barrett
M
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Driscoll
M/W/F
9:05am – 9:55am
Pals
TH
4:00pm – 6:30pm
McDonnell
TBA
Staff
Group III next page
Group III – Methods
One of the following:
Course Title
New 4 Digit #
Information Technology for Economics
ECON 2327
Geographic Data Analysis
GEOG 3500Q
Quantitive Analysis in Political Science
Methods of Social Research
POLS 2071Q
SOCI 3201
Hartford
Storrs
Torrington
Waterbury
Stamford
Avery Point
M
2:35pm – 5:15pm
Harmon
T/TH
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Cromley
M*
4:40pm – 7:10pm
Kashwan
T/TH*
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Tafoya
M/W
5:00pm – 6:15pm
Rasmussen
M/W/F***
10:10am – 11:00am
Hikel
(Open to Sociology majors
but also maintains a WL)
M/W
5:00pm – 6:15pm
Larose
Intro to Statistics II
STAT 2215Q
Qualitative Analysis of Urban and Community Studies
URBN 3998:
Variable Topic
(Methods Substitution)
T/TH
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Deshpande
M/W/F
2:30pm – 3:20pm
Wang
T/TH
11:00am – 12:15pm
Rojas
Please Note: UCS is planning on offering an online Methods course URBN 3210Q – Quantitative Analysis of Urban and Commmunity Studies during the summer. Once we have the Course Number we will pass it along.
The course will be avalibe to students on all campuses.
This course fulfills a university Q requirement as well as a UCS Methods requirement.
* This course section is only open to a specific major. (Please note: academic departments may remove seating restrictions this summer, actual date to be announced). You may try to enroll in the course at that time, if slots are avalible.)
** This course has a limited amount of slots available.
*** A short waiting list is maintained by the academic department that offers this course. If you are not able to enroll in this course via the Student Admin. System, please contact the department directly to see if they will place you on their waiting list.
Group IV next page
Group IV – Supporting
Three additional courses selected from group II, group III or the following list:
For students who declare the UCS major effective academic year 14/15 – Select two additional courses from either group II, III or the following list:
Course Title
New 4 Digit #
Public Finance
ECON 3431
Hartford
Storrs
Torrington
Waterbury
Stamford
T/TH
11:15am – 12:30pm
Halgunseth
T/TH
9:55am – 11:10am
Csizmadia
Avery Point
T/TH
9:30am – 10:45am
Fisher
T/TH
11:00am – 12:15pm
Evanovich
Introduction to Sport Based Youth Development
EDRL 3547/W
T/TH
11:00am – 12:15pm
Evanovich
(W course)
F
10:10am – 11:00am
Brown
Diversity Issues in Human Dev. & Family Studies
HDFS 2001
T
4:00pm - 6:30pm
Brenick
F
11:15am – 12:05pm
Brown
F
12:20pm – 1:10pm
Brown
M/W/F
2:30pm – 3:20pm
Saxena
Aging in American Society
HDFS 3240 or SOCI 3459W
Planning and Managing Human Service Programs
HDFS 3510
Public Policy & the Family
HDFS 3530
Child Welfare, Law & Social Policy
HDFS 3540
Topics in Public History
HIST 3102
Social and Cultural History of Connecticut and New
England
HIST 3520
M
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Chapman
M
3:45pm – 6:15pm
Eisenhandler
TH
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Desmarais
M
3:45pm – 6:15pm
Donofio
T
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Comer
T
2:30pm – 5:00pm
Rozwadowski
M/W
5:35pm – 6:50pm
Steenburg
Group IV – Supporting (Continued)
Course Title
New 4 Digit #
Hartford
Semester in Urban Problems
(Urban Semester)
INTD 3584
Urban Semester Field Work Seminar
INTD 3594
State and Local Government
POLS 2622
W
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Brennan
American Political Economy
POLS 3617
M/W
11:00am – 12:15pm
Waddell
African America Politics
POLS 3642
Storrs
Stamford
Avery point
M/W/F
11:15am – 12:05pm
Ladewig
M
2:35pm – 5:15pm
Ginsberg
M/W/F
11:15am – 12:05
McNeal Jr
SOCI 2301
Sociological Perspectives on Poverty
SOCI 3429W
Ethnicity and Race
SOCI 3501/AFRA 3501
T/TH
11:00am – 12:15pm
Hughey
Sociology of Religion
SOCI 3521W
M/W/F
2:30pm – 3:20pm
Godfrey
Sociology of Gender
SOCI 3601
T/TH
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Katuna
African Americans and Social Protest
SOCI 3825
SOCI 3907W
Waterbury
Contact the Urban Semester Program at urbansemester@uconn.edu for additional information.
Students also enroll concurrently in INTD 3590: Urban Field Studies.
Available to students on all campuses.
Crimonology
City Life
Torrington
M/W
5:35pm – 6:50pm
Breslin
M/W/F
1:25pm – 2:15pm
Hikel
M/W
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Cazenave
M/W/F
12:20pm – 1:10pm
Hikel
Group IV – Supporting Continued
T/TH
1:10pm – 2:25pm
Bunyan
Group IV – Supporting (Continued)
Course Title
New 4 Digit #
Hartford
Storrs
Barrett
Internship in UCS
URBN 3981 & 3991
Waterbury
Stamford
Avery Point
Rojas
(With approval)
Glasser
Barrett
Staff
(With approval)
Atkinson-Palombo
Variable Topics: Human Trafficking URBN Tragedy
URBN 3998
T
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Agliano
Variable Topics: Qualitative Analysis Urban and
Community Studies ( See Group III, Methods
Substitution)
URBN 3998
T/TH
11:00am – 12:15pm
Rojas
Variable Topics: The City in Film
URBN 3998
Independent Study
Torrington
TH
3:45pm – 6:15pm
Glasser
URBN 4999
Available by arrangement with consent of UCS instructor
* This course section is only open to a specific major. (Please note: academic departments may remove seating restrictions this summer, actual date to be announced). You may try to enroll in the course at that time, if slots are avalible.)
** This course has a limited amount of slots available.
*** A short waiting list is maintained by the academic department that offers this course. If you are not able to enroll in this course via the Student Admin. System, please contact the department directly to see if they will place you on their waiting list.
Related Courses
All Liberal Arts majors must take a minimum of 12 credits related to their major.
Please note: UCS majors may take a course(s) listed above as a “Related” as long as the course(s) is not designated as URBN or is not cross-listed with URBN. Related courses must be approved by you UCS faculty advisor.
Below are just a few examples of courses UCS majors may want to consider as “Related” or “Electives”.
Course Title
New 4 Digit #
Medical Anthropology
ANTH 3300
Hartford
Storrs
Torrington
Waterbury
T/TH
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Willen
M/W*
11:00am – 12:15pm
Cohen
Real Estate
FNCE 3230
Online*
Pancak
*For Sch of Business majors
W*
5:00pm – 7:20pm
Cover
Online*
Pancak
*For Sch of Business majors
*For Sch of Business majors
Applications of Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 4510
Legal Aspects of Family Life
HDFS 3520
Stamford
M
2:30pm – 4:30pm
Mrozinski
T
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Garver
Online**
Pancak
** A few slots available for
any major
Avery
Related Courses (Continued)
Course Title
New 4 Digit #
Hartford
Storrs
The Presidency and Congres
POLS 3602
T/TH
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Hayes
Constitutional Law
POLS 3802
M
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Santiago
Constitutional Rights and Liberties
POLS 3807
M/W/F
1:25pm – 2:15pm
Bergendahl
Law and Society
POLS 3817
TH
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Bowden
Torrington
Waterbury
Stamford
Avery
M
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Staff
T/TH
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Cole
M/W/F*
9:05am – 9:55am
Bergendahl
M/W/F**
10:10am – 11:00am
Bergendahl
** A few slots available for
non-POLS majors
Politics of Crime and Justice
POLS 3827
Public Opinion
PP 3030
M/W/F
11:15am – 12:05pm
Best
Public Policy Issues: Public Finance & Budgeting
PP 3098
TH
5:00pm – 7:30pm
Simonsen
Public Policy Issues: Human Resource Management
PP 3098
M
5:00pm – 7:30pm
Hatmaker
Financial Management for Public & Nonprofit
Organizations
PP 4031
T
5:00pm – 7:30pm
Raissian
T/TH
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Milan
Abnormal Psychology
PSYC 2300
M/W
9:30am – 10:45am
Burnham
T/TH
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Milan
T/TH
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Hinnebusch
T/TH
9:30am – 10:45am
Chen
T/TH
11:15am – 12:30pm
Treadwell
T/TH
7:00pm – 8:15pm
Bellas
Related Courses (Continued)
Course Title
New 4 Digit #
Hartford
Storrs
Introduction to Epidemiology
PUBH 3001
Social Theory
SOCI 3251
Deviant Behavior
SOCI 3311
Sociology of Health
SOCI 3451
White Racism
SOCI 3505
M/W
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Cazenave
Sociology of Sexualities
SOCI 3621
T/TH
9:30am – 10:45am
Price-Glynn
Sociology of the Family
SOCI 3651W
T/TH
8:00am – 9:15am
Price-Glynn
Human Rights in the United States
SOCI 3831
T/TH
8:00am – 9:15am
Glasberg
Refugees and Humanitarianism
SOCI 3835
M/W/F
9:05am – 9:55am
Warren
Torrington
Waterbury
Stamford
Avery
T/TH
11:00am – 12:15pm
Gregorio
T/TH
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Eisenhandler
M
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Butler
T/TH
11:00am – 12:15pm
Horowitz
W
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Staff
T/TH
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Ratcliff
* This course section is only open to a specific major. (Please note: academic departments may remove seating restrictions this summer, actual date to be announced). You may try to enroll in the course at that time, if slots are avalible.)
** This course has a limited amount of slots available.
*** A short waiting list is maintained by the academic department that offers this course. If you are not able to enroll in this course via the Student Admin. System, please contact the department directly to see if they will place you on their waiting list.
Course Highlights
(Please note, a course may be offered on multiple campuses, however, the descriptions maybe specific to a certain campus location.)
GEOG/URBN 1200 (AVP, HTFD, STORRS, WTBY): The City in the Western Tradition
A broad discussion of the role and structure of the city in the western tradition from the Classical period to contemporary America. Special emphasis will be placed
on the mechanisms by which cities and ideas about them have been diffused from one place to another and on the changing forces that have shaped the western
city. CA 1.
Course Highlights Continued
(Please note, a course may be offered on multiple campuses, however, the descriptions maybe specific to a certain campus location only.)
Geography 4095: Spatial Mobilities (Storrs)
Description: Spatial mobility is central to the human experience. Daily activity -- like shopping, dropping the kids off at school, and commuting to work -- changing
place of residence, and migrating from one place to another have profound effects on individuals and places. The widespread use of Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) are altering these behaviors and in many cases giving rise to new forms of mobility. This course explores these dimensions of
movement with a particular emphasis on their relationships to inequality.
GEOG 4210 (WTBY): Urban and Regional Planning
This course is designed to provide an overview of urban planning as practiced in the United States with an emphasis on Connecticut. Topics will include the historic
development of the discipline, the legal basis for planning and land use control techniques, the interrelationships among engineering, law and politics, as well as
discussions of current trends and techniques. This course seeks to provide an insight into planning as a profession and to help students evaluate whether planning
or a related field may be a potential career option. Three practical exercises will allow students to perform some basic professional tasks, explore post graduate
educational resources and be exposed to urban planning in the “real world”.
PP 4034 (HTFD): Social Policy
Examination of the concepts and principles of public policy analysis, with applications to important social issues.
SOCI 3251(WTBY): Social Theory—Visualize This
Theories are abstract thoughts and images about the way things work. Sociological theory focuses on group interaction and social structure to imagine and study
how social relations emerge, are maintained, and change. With the benefit of insights from classical and contemporary sociological thinkers, we will consider how
technology opens new ways to visualize social worlds. An important component of academic work will be an original project combining theory and research in
visual sociology.
SOCI 3651W (HTFD): Sociology of the Family
Families are potent symbols in the United States. To distinguish insiders and outsiders Americans may say, "blood is thicker than water.” Such sentiments may
seem to convey enduring cultural truths, but family meanings change over time. This course explores how we define and construct families as well as the
relationship between our families and larger social forces. Using lecture, readings, films, and discussions we will first shatter common myths about families by
confronting prevailing definitions and assumptions. Having explored examples from our past, we will move toward issues facing contemporary families. We will
conclude by looking at families and social change through political activism.
Course Highlights Continued
(Please note, a course may be offered on multiple campuses, however, the descriptions maybe specific to a certain campus location only.)
SOCI 3621 (HTFD): Sociology of Sexualities
Messages about sex and sexuality surround us. Though many experts argue that the U.S. is a sex-saturated society, our culture remains deeply ambivalent about
how to interpret and understand these references – both past and present. On the one hand, sex and sexuality are represented natural and eternal (read:
unchanging). On the other, sex and sexuality are, particularly within youth culture, seen as increasingly problematic (read: changing). How can both statements be
true? Using a sociological lens we will look at sexual identities and practices among social actors, social groups, and institutions. In particular we will focus on the
social construction and social control of sexuality.
URBN 1300 (TORR): Exploring Your Community
Through mini-internships in the community and dialogue with guest speakers, students will learn about current initiatives to improve our region's communities, and
reflect on topics of citizenship, justice, human rights, diversity, and individual and social well being. Topics explored include revitalizing neighborhoods and
downtowns, ending homelessness, growth of regional government, improving recreational opportunities, developing local food systems, alternatives to mass
imprisonment, the arts and community. Because 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the UCONN/Torrington campus, the class will also examine the part played by
UCONN in the region.
URBN 3000 (HTFD): Urban Anthropology
We begin with the origin of cities in antiquity and end with the contemporary urban landscape. Analysis is sensitive to both various theoretical and methodological
approaches to examine urban life, and focuses particularly on interpreting, understanding and seeking alternatives to common "urban problems" such as crime,
violence, poverty, sanitation, urban renewal projects, and racial & economic segregation. The city has been characterized by some as the "greatest cultural
achievement of humankind: but is also viewed as "seats of tyranny and corruption". This course examines these opposing characterizations of the city and a range
of views in between-from an anthropological and archaeological perspective.
URBN 3998 (STORRS): Special Topics “Human Trafficking as an Urban Tragedy”
According to the U.S. State Department, human trafficking is one of the greatest human rights challenges of this century, both in the United States and around the
world, damaging both children and adults. Also known as modern day slavery, human trafficking is a crime involving exploitation of a person for the purpose of
involuntary servitude or debt bondage and can include forced labor and sex trafficking. Human trafficking cases occur throughout the United States from small
rural towns to large urban cities. While there is no one victim profile, there are several factors the increase victim vulnerabilities. This course will explore current
issues of trafficking in the United States, federal and state response, factors that increase the risk for victimization, the role of traffickers, and those who create the
demand for human commodification.
URBN 3998 (WTBY): The City in Film: Small Town Version
How have small towns and their communities been portrayed in feature films of the distant and recent past? How do these portrayals measure up against both the
commonly held images and realities of American small town life? Emphasis in this course will be given to movies that foreground the small town as
protagonist. Students will have an opportunity to compare small town films with depictions of small towns from historical, sociological, and architectural
perspectives. Students will also collectively and individually research and write about a body of small town films from the 1990s and 2000s.
URBN 4000 (Online) – Understanding Your Community (Open to UCS majors in their senior year at all UConn campus locations)
In this course, students will conduct an in-depth examination of an urban area or local community. Students will produce a detailed report that includes a historical
perspective, an analysis of issues and stakeholders, and an evaluation of internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as external threats and opportunities.
Additionally, this report will propose strategies for addressing urban and community problems, while at the same time advancing equity, growth and development.
Please note, if you are a Senior and are having problems registering for this class, please contact maria.winnick@uconn.edu.
OCTOBER 27, 2014