Urban Studies Minor Requirements

Urban Studies Minor Requirements

The urban studies minor requires 21 hours, selected from at least three different disciplines with a maximum of nine hours from any one discipline, to include:

  1. A minimum of six hours to be selected from the following core courses:

ANTH 30623

Urban Anthropology

ECON 40463

Regional and Urban Economics

GEOG 30713

Urban Geography

POSC 30103

Topics in American Politics: Urban Issues and Policies

2. A minimum of three hours with a service learning or independent research component. These courses would include, but would not be restricted to:

CRJU 40963

Internship in Criminal Justice

POSC 20144

Practicing American and Texas Politics

POSC 40960

Civic Literacy Internships

SOCI 30213

Applied Sociology

SPAN 31803

Service Learning in the Latino Community

3. A minimum of three hours of coursework in which urbanization is studied in an international, global or comparative context. Students are encouraged, but not required, to satisfy this component of the minor through an appropriate study abroad experience.

4. Nine additional hours of relevant coursework to be completed subject to the distributional requirements noted above. A minimum of three hours must be selected from approved humanities courses.

5. No course may be applied to both a student's major and minor requirements. If one of the above courses is required for a student's major (e.g., CRJU 40963 or POSC 20144), the student may substitute another approved course in the minor. The student would not be required to complete a second Internship or service learning course.





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