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15.00 - 20.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Urban Studies majors and minors only. Students work 15-20 hours per week in field placement and meet weekly with class and instructors. The class is intended to help students reflect from a variety of perspectives on the work that they are doing in their placement organizations. The class format is primarily discussion. Students are required to complete assigned readings, prepare written and oral presentations, and submit a final project.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Previoulsy URBS 207. Through classroom discussions, writing assignments, and a semester-long group project aimed at creating change in the community, students will build skills and competencies in preparation for outreach to the Asian American community. Students will participate in service-learning projects that promote community leadership development and community education.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Johnston. This course will introduce students to anthropological approaches to health and to theories of participatory action research. This combined theoretical perspective will then be put into practice using West Philadelphia community schools as a case study. Students will become involved in design and implementation of health-related projects at an urban elementary or middle school. As one of the course requirements, students will be expected to produce a detailed research proposal for future implementation.
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3.00 Credits
Rendell. Course participants will study the stages and strategies in running for public office and discuss the role of various influences on getting elected, including campaign finance and fundraising, demographics, polling, the media, staffing, economics, party organization, etc. The course will also examine how electoral politics varies by level--city, state, national. Students will analyze campaign case studies and the career of the instructor, himself. The instructor will also bring in speakers who can provide other perspectives on electoral politics. The instructor is the former Mayor of Philadelphia, Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and is currently the Governor of Pennsylvania.
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3.00 Credits
Golden/Walinsky/Gensler. Previously URBS 222. The history and practice of the contemporary mural movement couples step by step analysis of the process of designing with painting a mural. In addition, students will learn to see mural art as a tool for social change. This course combines theory with practice. Students will design and paint a large outdoor mural in West Philadelphia in collaboration with Philadelphia high school students and community groups. The instructor, Jane Golden, is the founder and Director of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course represents an opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in academically-based community service involving tutoring in a West Philadelphia public school. This course will serve a need for those students who are already tutoring through the West Philadelphia Tutoring Project or other campus tutoring, and it will also be available to individuals who are interested in tutoring for the first time.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Course topics vary by term; The current course is "Research as Public Work:A Real-World Project To Help Create A New West Philadelphia High School," a seminar that engages Penn undergraduates with West Philadelphia High School teachers and students to assist in planning an urban studies academy at both the existing and proposed new high school. This planning includes developing curricular activities, mapping institutional resources to support curriculum development, and designing school-based public work projects.
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3.00 Credits
Hillier. Previously URBS 230; Fulfills the Qualitative Data Analysis Requirement. This course will introduce students to the principles behind Geographic Information Science and applications of (GIS) in the social sciences. Examples of GIS applications in social services, public health, criminology, real estate, environmental justice, education, history, and urban studies will be used to illustrate how GIS integrates, displays, and facilitates analysis of spatial data through maps and descriptive statistics. Students will learn to create data sets, through primary and secondary data collection, map their own data, and create maps to answer research questions. The course will consist of a combination of lecture and lab.
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3.00 Credits
Sugrue. Using Philadelphia as a lens, this course will examine the transformation of American cities from the Colonial period to the present. Through readings, lectures, and tours, we will consider urbanization and suburbanization, race, class, and ethnicity, economic development, poverty and inequality, housing and neighborhood change, urban institutions, and politics and public policy.
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3.00 Credits
Schneider/Simon. Senior research project.
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