Marcia Beattie, Minor Adviser
(585) 475-5855, mabcce@rit.edu
This minor focuses on the interplay between urban issues and urban policy. Every metropolitan area must address such perennial issues as housing, transportation, education, crime, safety, recreation, and economic development. Each community must do so with an understanding of its unique social mix and neighborhood relations, and with recognition of its place in wider regional, national, and global networks. Students identify and analyze central issues and social problems of urbanization and explore and assess various ways decision-makers respond to these issues.
Prerequisite—Choose one of the following:
0515-210 Foundations of Sociology
0510-210 Cultural Anthropology
Required course:
0515-442 The Urban Experience
Electives—Choose four of the following (at least one course must be from urban policy and one from urban issues.)
Urban Policy
0508-491 Sustainable Communities I
0511-440 Urban Economics
0515-413 Urban Planning and Policy
0526-441 GIS Applications in UC Studies
0526-443 Community Economic Development: Rochester
Urban Issues
0510-443 Immigration to the U.S.
0510-445 Global Cities
0515-485 Diversity in the City
0501-405 Major Issues: Crime/Justice in the Community*
* Major Issues: Crime/Justice in the Community (0501-405) offers a number of sections. Students in this minor may enroll only in section 02 (Crime/Justice in the Community).