URBAN ANALYSIS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Curriculum Description
This interdisciplinary concentration provides students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences to better appreciate the challenges and opportunities facing people in urban areas. One goal is to understand oneself in the context of the larger community. A second is to explore the range of communities found in postindustrial and developing countries. A third is to provide a vision of social justice to guide social change so that people work together in constructing communities to make them more just, equitable, and humane. Students learn qualitative and quantitative methods and theoretical frameworks.

Faculty Advisor
Kathleen Maas Weigert, Ph.D.

COURSES

The concentration in Urban Analysis and Community Development requires 16 courses (minimum of 48 credit hours). This is broken down as: Required Courses (8)—including an Introductory course, two methods courses, a theory course, two substantive area courses, and practicum; Structured Electives (6)—three courses in each of the two tracks Policy and Planning and Community Change and Development, selected in either the local or global arena; and Free Electives (2)—two courses from any of the tracks from either the local or global arena. Required Courses Introduction to Urban Analysis and Community Development Social Research Methods I (Quantitative) Social Research Methods II (Qualitative) Theories of Urban Analysis and Community Development Social Analysis: Policy and Planning Community Development and Social Change Urban Analysis and Community Development Practicum I Urban Analysis and Community Development Practicum II Structured Electives from Two Tracks The student must select one geographic arena, the local or the global. Within that arena, the student must choose three courses in each of the two Tracks, i.e., Policy and Planning and Community Change and Development. The Policy and Planning track focuses on the governmental sector that determines policies, creates plans, and shapes the urban community through the formal exercise of political power and institutional structures. The Community Change and Development track focuses on the nongovernmental sector and community organizations that operate outside of formal institutional structures but instead organizes the human and social capital resources of people into collective change agents. Local Arena Policy and Planning Social Inequality and Poverty Education and Society Organizations and Society Housing Policy Health Care: Policy and Practice Work and the National Economy Values in Criminal Justice Policy Community Change and Development Community and Alienation Confronting Hunger and Homelessness in the United States Conflicts: Transformation and Change Race and Ethnic Relations Community Organizing and Grassroots Change Faith-Based Organizations and Community Change The Local Nonprofit Sector Environmental Justice Cultures and Urban Life Global Arena Policy and Planning Immigration and Refugee Policy Modernization and Development Urban Policy in Global Perspective Economic Development and Human Security Global Hunger Women and Social Change Inequalities in Health and Illness Demography and Aging Community Change and Development Religion and Society Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism Globalization and Social Change in Developing Countries Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective Women and Community Change Human Rights: A Force for Change Global Trade and Local Discontents Free Electives The student may choose two courses from either the “local” or the “global” arenas and from either the Policy and Planning or Community Change and Development tracks.