Urban Studies Minor

TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK FACULTY:
Heather Fitz Gibbon, Chair
Hamed Goharipour

The Urban Studies program provides both an interdisciplinary major and an offcampus urban experience for non-majors. Urban Studies is sponsored by the departments of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology and administered by a faculty committee.

The Urban Studies major allows students to gain a perspective on the different urban phenomena that crucially affect the quality of life of most Americans, and to relate their liberal education to specific and real human concerns. The Urban Studies major provides a social-scientific core from which students may elect to branch out into various curricular tracks that either broaden the disciplinary bases of urban understanding or deepen competence within a particular discipline.