Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
URBAN SOCIOLOGY
Term session
0
Term
2017A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC011401
Meeting times
T 0300PM-0600PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 309
Instructors
JOYCE, COLETTE
Description
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the sociological study of urban areas. This includes more general topics as the rise of cities and theories urbanism, as well as more specific areas of inquiry, including American urbanism, segregation, urban poverty, suburbanization and sprawl, neighborhoods and crime, and immigrant ghettos. The course will also devote significant attention to globalization and the process of urbanization in less developed counties.
Course number only
011
Use local description
No