Urban Studies Minor
Program Director, Professor Joan Fitzgerald
617 373 3644
337 Meserve Hall
jo.Fitzgerald@neu.edu
Required Courses
Complete the following two courses:
POL U357 Growth and Decline of Cities and Suburbs
or SOC U357 Growth and Decline of Cities and Suburbs
POL U358 Current Issues in Cities and Suburbs
or SOC U358 Current Issues in Cities and Suburbs
Elective Courses
Choose two from the following list:
AFR U140 African-American History
AFR U270 Economic Status of Ethnic Minorities
AFR U312 Black History of Boston
AFR U337 African-American History before 1900
AFR U360 Politics of Poverty
AFR U399 Black Community and Social Change
AFR U485 Educational Issues/Black Community
ARC U111 History of World Architecture 1
ARC U112 History of World Architecture 2
ARC U223 American Architecture
ARC U325 Nineteenth-Century Architecture and Urbanism
ARC U326 Twentieth-Century Architecture and Urbanism
ECN U101 Economic Problems and Perspectives
ECN U270 Economic Status of Ethnic Minorities
ECN U420 Urban Economic Issues
ECN U461 Government and Business
ECN U470 American Economic History
HST U140 Introduction to African American History
HST U230 Contemporary America
HST U232 History of Boston
HST U338 African-American History since 1900
HST U344 U.S. Urban History
POL U165 Public Policy and Administration
POL U345 Urban Policies and Politics
SOA U305 Global Markets and Local Culture
SOC U220 Sociology of Boston
SOC U247 Urban Social Problems
SOC U403 American Society
SOC U418 Greater Boston Urban Policy Seminar
GPA Requirements
2.000 GPA required in the minor
Brown Bag Series
Participation in a brown bag series. Talks are held once a semester to discuss timely urban topics.