New UCS Minor Requirements

Published on September, 13 2010 at 12:00am

The Urban and Community Studies Program has recently added new courses to the major. Below is the new UCS Program Minor degree requirements.

Requirements

The minor in Urban and Community Studies (UCS) is an interdisciplinary minor with a focus on educating citizens on the multiple dimensions of urban and community life and preparing students for careers in public and community service. While available with any undergraduate major, this minor provides an especially appropriate complement to majors in the social sciences, as well as professional schools that emphasize human services such as Human Development and Family Studies or Education.

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The minor requires passing 15 credits at the 2000 level as follows:

(Requirements of the minor effective Fall 2010, catalogue 11/12).

Group I - Core Course

Course Title	Old 3 Digit Number	New 4 Digit Number
Introduction to Urban Studies	URBN 230 or 230W	URBN 2000/W

Group II - Two of the following with no more than one per department:

(Cross-listed courses count towards the non-URBN department)

Course Title	Old 3 Digit Number	New 4 Digit Number
Urban Development & Policy	ECON 221	ECON 2439
Economics of Poverty	ECON 223	ECON 2456
Urban Geography	GEOG/URBN 233	GEOG/URBN 3200
Urban & Regional Planning	GEOG 274	GEOG 4210
History of Urban America	HIST/URBN 241/W	HIST/URBN 3541/W
Immigrants & the Shaping of American History	HIST 247	HIST 3554
African American History Since 1865	HIST/AFAM 246	HIST/AFAM 3564
History of Latino/as in the US	HIST 278/PRLS 220	HIST 3674/PRLS 3220
Urban Politics	POLS/URBN 263W	POLS 3632/W or URBN 3632W
Public Admin. or Public Admin. in Theory & Practice	POLS 260 or PP 260	POLS 3842 or PP 3031
Social Policy	PP 277	PP 4034
Social Welfare & Social Work	SOCI 285	SOCI 3425
Urban Sociology	SOCI/URBN 280/W	SOCI 3901/W or URBN 3275/W
Communities	SOCI 284	SOCI 3911
Urban Anthropology	URBN 248	URBN 3000

Group III - Two additional courses selected from group II or the following list:

Course Title	Old 3 Digit Number	New 4 Digit Number
Applied Regional Analysis: The Connecticut Economy	ECON 215/W	ECON 2328/W
Economics of Taxation & Government Spending	ECON 220	ECON 2431
Public Finance	ECON 253/W	ECON 3431/W
Urban & Regional Economics	ECON 259/W or URBN 259	ECON 3439/W or URBN 3439
Reading the American City	ENGL 235W	ENGL 3235W
Geographical Analysis of Urban Social Issues	GEOG 280W	GEOG 4200W
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems	GEOG 246C	GEOG 4500
Topics in Public History	NA	HIST 3102
Social and Cultural History of CT and New England	HIST 227	HIST 3520
Asian American Experience Since 1850	HIST/AASI 294	HIST 3530/AASI 3578
African American History to 1865	HIST/AFAM/HRTS 238	HIST/AFAM/HRTS 3563
Hip-Hop, Politics & Youth Culture in America	HIST/AFAM 260	HIST/AFAM 3568
Diversity Issues in Human Dev. & Family Studies	HDFS 201	HDFS 2001
Planning & Managing Human Service Programs	HDFS 276	HDFS 3510
Public Policy & the Family	HDFS 274	HDFS 3530
Semester in Urban Problems (Urban Semester)	INTD 211	INTD 3584
State & Local Government	POLS 274	POLS 2622
African American Politics	POLS/AFAM 248	POLS/AFAM 3642
Latino Political Behavior	POLS 249/PRLS 270	POLS 3662/PRLS 3270
The Policy-making Process	POLS 276	POLS 3847
Public Policy	PP 276	PP 3001
Cases in Public Policy	PP 223/W	PP 3020/W
State and Local Fiscal Problems	PP 274	PP 4033
Sociological Perspectives on Poverty	SOCI 249/W or HRTS 249	SOCI 3429/W or HRTS 3429
Aging in American Society	SOCI/HDFS 248/W	SOCI 3459/W or HDFS 3240/W
Sociology of Religion	SOCI 253/W	SOCI 3521/W
Sociology of Gender	SOCI 252/W	SOCI 3601/W
African Americans and Social Protest	SOCI/AFAM/HRTS 235	SOCI/AFAM/HRTS 3825
Urban Problems	SOCI/URBN 281/W	SOCI 3903/W or URBN 3276/W
City Life	SOCI 283/W	SOCI 3907/W
Internship in UCS or Urban Semester: Seminar	URBN 232 or INTD 212/W	URBN 3981 or INTD 3594/W
Special Topics	URBN 298	URBN 3995
Variable Topics (e.g. Reel Cities, Beyond the City)	URBN 295	URBN 3998
Understanding Your Community	URBN 290/W	URBN 4000/W
Independent Study (on going per consent of instructor)	URBN 299	URBN 4999

(Please note a course listed with a “/W” indicates that the course may be offered either with or without a “W”.)

Students interested in pursuing a minor in Urban and Community Studies are advised to complete 1000-level courses in the social sciences, which are prerequisites for courses in Urban and Community Studies. These include, but are not limited to GEOG /URBN 1200; ECON 1201; POLS 1602; PP 1001; SOCI 1001, 1251; and STAT 1000Q/1100Q. They should also plan on enrolling in URBN 2000, which is open to sophomores, as soon as possible. (The minor is offered by the Urban and Community Studies Program).

If you are interested in UCS as a minor or are interested in learning more about the program, please contact us at 860-570-9092.