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  • URBS 403: Special Topics in Urban Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Topics vary each semester; see department for current description.
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  • URBS 404: Philanthropy & The City

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Goldman/Bauer. This course will focus on how cities are shaped by the nonprofit sector and the philanthropic dollars that fuel their work. By bridging theory and practice, the class explores what dynamics are at play to deliver vital services or programs in healthcare, education, the arts, community development and other issues. The course will also focus on two important questions: (1) Whose responsibility is the public good and (2) Given that responsibility for the public good in which individuals and groups make the decisions about how to serve the public good, how are these decisions made, and who benefits from these decisions Students will consider these questions in an interdisciplinary context that will bring a historical and philosophical perspective to the examination of the values and institutions that characterize the contemporary nonprofit sector.
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  • URBS 405: Religion,Social Justice and Urban Development

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Lamas. Urban development has been influenced by religious conceptions of social and economic justice. Progressive traditions within Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Humanism have yielded: (1) powerful critiques of oppression and hierarchy as well as (2) alternative economic frameworks for ownership, governance, production, labor, and community. Historical and contemporary case studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East will be considered, as we examine the ways in which religious responses to poverty, inequality, and ecological destruction have generated new forms of urban development.
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  • URBS 409: Anthropology and Policy:History,Theory,Practice

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Sabloff. From the inception of the discipline, anthropologists have applied their ethnographic and theoretical knowledge to policy issues concerning the alleviation of practical human problems. This approach has not only benefited peoples in need, but it has also enriched the discipline, providing anthropologists with the opportunity to develop new theories and methodologies from a problem-centered approach. This class will examine the connection between anthropology and policy, theory and practice (or 'praxis'), research and application. We will study these connections by reading about historical and current projects. As an academically-based research course, students will also volunteer in a volunteer ogranization of their choice in the Philadelphia area, conduct anthropological research on the organization, and suggest ways that the anthropological approach might support the efforts of the organization.
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  • URBS 410: Urban Communities and the Arts:Research & Policy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Stern. This course may not be counted as a required studio course for Fine Arts major and minor. This course will explore methods for examining the role that arts and cultural activities play in urban communities and its implications for urban policy. The course will focus on: 1) examining theories of culture's social impact and how they might be used to formulate research; 2) methods for conducting research on arts and culture; and 3) how cultural research is relevant for various spheres of urban policy, including community development, urban economies, and the needs of children and youth. The major project for the course will require students to collaborate with community resources in studying the connection of theory, research, and policy.
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  • URBS 412: Building Non-Profits from the Ground Up

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Guard, Gehrig. This course, taught by The Philadelphia Award winner (2005), will cover the basic elements of building and growing a non-profit organization, including the development of the mission and the board; needs assessment, program design, development, and management; financial management, contract compliance and understanding an audit; fundraising, public, foundation, corporate, and individual; communication and marketing; organizational administration including staff and volunteer selection, management and development; public policy, research and advocacy. Students will engage in field assignments and role play, in addition to research and writing.
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  • URBS 413: Sprawl:American Dream or Nightmare

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. In recent years, "sprawl" has emerged as a hot issue in the media and in legislative forums from township boards to Congress. This survey course will assess the issue by asking and answering a series of questions about sprawl. Students will gain a broad overview of urban form and the forces that define it: transportation, market demand, government policy, and geography. Particular attention will be given to the impacts on open space, mobility, environmental quality, community vitality, and taxation. Solutions to the problems identified including state policies, local and regional planning (esp. transportation and open space), and physical design (new urbanism, transit-oriented development, conservation subdivision) will be considered. The Philadelphia region will be highlighted as a "case study" throughout the course, although significant attention will be given to developments elsewhere. Speakers will be invited from the following groups: smart growth advocates, the home builders, transportation advocates, community development corporations, environmental groups, and government. Field trips to experience urban form will include a visit to a new urbanist community (Eagleview, Chester County) and the Littlest Streets (Philadelphia).
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  • URBS 420: Perspectives on Urban Poverty

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Wolfson. This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to various perspectives and philosophies that have dominated the discourse on urban poverty throughout history. The course is primarily concerned with the ways in which historical, cultural, political, racial, social, geographical, and economic forces have either shaped or been left out of contemporary debates on urban poverty. Of great importance, the course will evaluate competing knowledge systems and their respective implications in terms of the questions of "what can be known" about urban poverty in the contexts of policy circles, academic literature, and the broader social imaginary. We will critically analyze a wide body of literature seeking to theorize urban poverty, ranging from sociological; anthropological/ethnographic; geographical; Marxist; historical; social welfare; and cultural analyses. Primacy will be granted to critical analysis of course readings, particularly with regard to the ways in which various knowledge systems - or "regimes of truth" - create, sustain, and constrict meaning in reference to urban poverty.
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  • URBS 422: Cities,Democracy and Citizenship

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Gaige. This course will examine the intriguing and complicated relationship between cities, democracy, and citizenship. We will study this intellectual kinship in a variety of ways. First we will review its roots in the ancient Greek polis and through the Middle Ages. We will then focus on the city/democracy/citizenship nexus in the United States by exploring such topics as: 1)Urban immigration and political machines; 3) Deurbanization and the rise of the economic underclass; and 4) Social equity and regionalism. We will conclude by looking at the effects on democracy and citizenship of what has been termed the global city. Increasingly, these technology-intensive locales may be diverging from - and even replacing - nations as sites for the emergence of new forms of citizenship. We will explore the positive and negative implications of this development for cities, democracy, and citizenship.
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  • URBS 428: Research Seminar in 21st Century Urbanism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    A seminar run in conjunction with the Institute for Urban Research at Penn, students will learn about the range of cutting edge topics in urbanism that Penn faculty are working on and work closely with a faculty member on current research. Students will learn about new topics and methods in interdisciplinary urban research, and get first hand experience collectiing urban data under the close supervision of an experienced researcher. Students and faculty jointly will present their findings for discussion. This course is a good introduction for how to fame and conduct an urban research project.
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