Dr. Lily Shohat, Chairperson
Social Science Department
LaGuardia Community College
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101
Dear Dr. Shohat:
The Urban Studies Department at Queens College is pleased to support a Liberal Arts Associate of
Arts Option in Urban Studies at LaGuardia Community College and to accept up to 15 credits in Urban
Studies courses towards the Queens College Urban Studies major.
We confirm the following exact equivalencies between LaGuardia and our department. These credits
can count towards the Queens College Urban Studies major.
La Guardia CC Urban Studies course
is equivalent to
HSN 103 Community Dynamics
QC Urban Studies course
URBST 102 Urban Issues: Services and
Institutions
URBST 233 AIDS and Public Policy
URBST 132 US Health Services and Policy
URBST 210 Urban Protest Movements
SCN 194 AIDS in NYC
SCN 195 Community Health
SSN 103 Introduction to Labor and Community
Organizing
SSN 182 Urban Anthropology
SSN 183 History of Minorities
URBST 113 Urban Subcultures
URBST 202 Racial and Ethnic
Minorities in Urban America
URBST 14 Urban Aesthetics
URBST 106 Cultural and Historical
Development of Cities
URBST 214 Urban Religious
Movements
URBST 114 Sexual Variance
SSN 184 Environmental Psychology
SSN 187 Urban Sociology
SSN 194 Religion and Social Change
SSN 210 Politics of Sexuality
We confirm that the following courses will earn elective credit in our department. These credits can count
towards the Queens College Urban Studies major.
La Guardia CC Urban Studies course
will earn
ELN194 Puerto Rican Community Minority Group Exp.
SSN 189 The Urban Economy
SSN 192 Practical Politics in NYC
SSN 240 History of NYC
SSN 280 Urban Black Psychology
QC Urban Studies elective credit
URBST 220 Elective
URBST 220 elective
URBST 320 elective
URBST 220 elective or HIST 285
History of the City of NY
URBST 220 elective
All of LaGuardia's other Urban Studies courses will earn Queens College unrestricted elective credit upon
transfer as follows. These credits will not count towards the major.
La Guardia CC course
will earn
AMN211 Travel Tourism and Hospitality
AMN195 Profiles and Prospects of Business in NYC
ELN120 Foundations of American Education
ENN191 Art, Politics and Protest
ENN195 Violence in American Art and Culture
ENN198 Creative Writing Workshop
ELN101 Introduction to Bilingualism
HSN 110 Perspectives on Homelessness
HUN191 Photo Journalism: An Introduction
HUN192 Art and Society
HUN195 Art in New York
HUN196 Film and New York City
HUN245 The New York Theater Experience
SSN190 Leadership
QC elective credit
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Drama Major Elective
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The following LaGuardia Urban Studies courses will receive transfer credit from other QC departments.
These credits will transfer as indicated below.
ENN/SSN 193 Ideal Societies
ENN240 Literature of the City
HUN180 Introduction to Intercultural Communication
SSN186 Sociology of the Black Community
Soc E0167 Sociology
ENGL396 Studies in Language,
Literature and Culture
MEDST259 Cultural Factors in
Communication
SOC272 Blacks in American Society
Sincerely,
Leonard S. Rodberg
Professor and Chair