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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Staff. Also fulfills General Requirement in Society for Class of 2009 and prior. This course is an introduction to major forces that shape urban life in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, with a focus on Philadelphia. Through weekly assignments and discussions, students will examine the physical formation and historical development of cities and learn to "read" the sociological and geographic organization of the contemporary city. Prominent themes include urban growth, decline, and restructuring; the ecological bases of urban life; race, class, and gender relations in urban space; and the formation and re-formation of neighborhoods, downtowns, and suburbs.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Previously URBS 111. Topics vary; see department for current course description.
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Staff. This course will teach qualitative research techniques such as field notes, participant-observation, interviews, and data interpretation and contextualize them within a discussion of anthropological theory. To put what they are learning into practice, students will engage in participant-observation at field sites in Philadelphia, complete short exercises, and submit ethnographic accounts of their work. Emphasis will be placed on community service and participatory-action research.
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Staff. This seminar will explore current topics in Urban Studies. The topic for spring 2009 is "Modern American Cities." This seminar examines the economic, demographic, and spatial transformations of American cities since World War II. Topics for analysis include the impact of deindustrialization and the emergence of an information-service economy, internal migration and immigration, ghetto creation, the origin and history of suburbs, and levers of change - politics, policy, social movements, and social reform. Assignments include reading approximately one book perweek, short commentary papers, discussion leadership, and a final essay.
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Staff. Prerequisite(s): FNAR 271 or permission of the instructor. This is a non-studio course in the photography of buildings, streetscapes, and cities. It is designed for photographers interested in the built environment as subject matter, as well as for architecture and planning students. We will hone practical skills in perspective control, lighting, and photographic interpretation of space, so that photographers, architects and planners can better photograph precedents and their own projects, and better evaluate the use of professional architectural photography for promotion and education.
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Zettler. This course surveys the cultural traditions of ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, a region commonly dubbed "cradle of civilization" or "heartland of cities," from an archaeological perspective. It will investigate the emergence of sedentism and agriculture; early villages and increasingly complex Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures; the evolution of urban, literate societies in the late 4th millennium; the city-states and incipient supra-regional polities of the third and second millennium; the gradual emergence of the Assyrian and Babylonian "world empires," well-known from historical books of the Bible, in the first millennium; and the cultural mix of Mesopotamia under the successive domination of Greeks, Persians and Arabs. The course seeks to foster an appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of ancient Mesopotamia, an understanding of cultural continuities in the Middle East and a sense of the ancient Near Eastern underpinnings of western civilization. No Prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course explores the relationships between forms of cultural production and transmission (schooling, family and community socialization, peer group subcultures and media representations) and relations of inequality in American society. Working with a broad definition of "education" as varied forms of social learning, we will concentrate particularly on the cultural processes that produce as well as potentially transform class, race, ethnic and gender differences and identities. From this vantage point, we will then consider the role that schools can and/or should play in challenging inequalities in America.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Macleod. All lectures and readings in English. An exploration of modern discourses on and of the city. Topics include: the city as site of avant-garde experimentation; technology and culture; the city as embodiment of social order and disorder; traffic and speed; ways of seeing the city; the crowd; city figures such as the detective, the criminal, the flaneur, the dandy; film as the new medium of the city. Special emphasis on Berlin. Readings by, among others, Dickens, Poe, Baudelaire, Rilke, Doeblin, Marx, Engels, Benjamin, Kracauer. Films include Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Hershberg. An introduction to a broad range of substantive policy areas affecting the city and an exploration into the complexities of policy formulation and implementation in a large and pluralistic metropolitan setting. The course subtitle, "Contemporary Philadelphia: A Case Study," describes our approach.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Rubin. This course will examine the state of urban journalism today with special emphasis on how large newspapers are redefining themselves, and the news, in an era of dwindling readership and growing corporate pressures. The course will look at local television news, photojournalism, magazines, the black and ethnic press, online journalism, alternative weeklies and ethics, and will discuss the techniques journalists use in reporting the news. The course is taught by Dan Rubin, metro columnist and former foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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