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Spring 2013 Graduate Courses
Click on the course number to view a course description.
**Dates & Times are Tentative**
| BISC 7532 |
Conservation Law & Policy |
Clark |
T |
6:00-9:00pm |
| CISC 5500 |
Info & Knowledge Management |
Tsai |
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| ECON 6440 |
Community Economic Development |
Mani |
M |
5:30-7:20pm |
| ECON 6470 |
Growth & Development |
McLeod |
W |
7:30-9:20pm |
| LALS 5001 |
Latin American & Latino Cultures |
Vich |
T
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5:30-8:00pm |
| POSC 6640 |
Politics of Global Economic Relations |
Crystal |
R |
5:30-7:20pm |
| SOCI 6600 |
Sociology of Minorities |
Gilbertson |
W |
5:30-7:20pm |
| URST 5020 |
Urban Political Process |
Hinze |
T |
5:15-7:45pm |
| URST 5070 |
Environmental History of New York City |
Stoll |
R |
5:15-7:45pm |
| URST 6080 |
Urban Studies Fieldwork |
TBA |
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TBA |
| URST 6200 |
Research Skills in Urban Studies |
Rhomberg |
M |
5:15-7:45pm |
| URST 6999 |
Urban Studies Research |
TBA |
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TBA |
| VART 5555 |
Film and the City |
Street |
T |
6:00-8:45pm |
Course Descriptions
BISC 7532 - Conservation Law and Policy
A course designed for non-majors. Ecological concepts and how they relate to critical contemporary issues: air and water pollution, radiation, energy, world hunger. Includes experiments, demonstrations and field trips.
CISC 5500 - Info & Knowledge Management
This course provides students with the background, tools and skills to become efficient and effective information users and providers. The course covers the digital infrastructure, data aquisition and curation, databases, and information retrieval, data modeling and graphical visualization, GIS and mapping, web-based systems, and social networks. Students will work with examples selected from areas including environmental and health, urban and social studies, policy and legal issues, business and finance.
ECON 6470 - Growth & Development
A survey of growth models and statistical evidence to determine what causes growth rate to vary among countries and over time. Topics include the source of economic growth, growth with balance of payments adjustments, capital inflows and growth, and north-south growth models. Prerequisites ECGA 5410 and ECGA 5710. Growth models and statistical evidence are surveyed to determine what causes growth rates to vary among countries and over time. Topics include the sources of economic growth, growth with balance of payments adjustment, capital inflow and growth, and North-South growth models. Prerequisites: Economic Development Policy and Applied Econometrics or the equivalent
URST 5020 - Urban Political Processes
Examines urban political systems concentrating on the primary institutions and processes that comprise the urban milieu. Focuses on the major theories and approaches that attempt to explain urban politics and urban political systems
URST 5070 - Environmental History of New York City
A survey of New York City's history that emphasizes its changing ecomony, ecology, geography, and society over 400 years. Subjects include the political economy of poverty, the global outreach of New York, its capacity to change the enviroment of other places, and urban redevelopment. Students will conduct preliminary research and prepare a prospectus for a research project.
After looking at ways in which the city has been framed historically in films, students will pursue research in the city using video as their tool. Using interviews, screen text, voice over and other documentary techniques, students will explore a project of interest to them and make a series of short films that reveal an aspect of the urban milieu. In class sessions and in one on one meetings with the professor, students will propose and refine their project and gather feedback about communicating in visual language on city issues. No prior video experience necessary, and cameras are available for checkout from the Visual Art Department.
URST 6080 – Urban Studies Fieldwork (1-6 credits)
Required internship or field research in New York City or another large scale US or foreign city, depending on student interest. Prerequisite: 12 completed credits and program approval. The field study may be related to the required research project. Must be approved and mentored by advisor.
URST 6200 - Research Skills in Urban Studies
Introduces students to urban research methods, setting up research design including derving hypotheses and conclusions and the application of qualitative and quantitative approaches.
LALS 5001 - Latin American & Latino Cultures
In-depth study of cultural phenomena (linguistic, literary, artistic, etc) and the intellectual, social and political contexts in whichthey manifest themselves in Latin America and U.S. Latino communities. The topics will be addressed from historical and contemporary perspectives.
POSC 6640 - Politics of Global Economic Relations
Implications of growing intertwinement of foreign and domestic policies, economic and political aspects of international relations. Special attention to the growth of dependency and interdependence, importance of transnational actors (such as multinational corporations), and distribution of benefits and influence between poor and rich areas in the international order.
URST 5020 - Urban Political Processes
Examines urban political systems concentrating on the primary institutions and processes that comprise the urban milieu. Focuses on the major theories and approaches that attempt to explain urban politics and urban political systems
URST 6999 - Urban Studies Research (1-6 credits)
Required research project for Master's Thesis or project. Prerequisites: 12 completed units, URST 6080, and program approval. Leads to completed thesis or project.
VART 5555 - Film and the City
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