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  • URBS 460: School Reform and Public Policy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    This course will examine how changes in the global economy require America's schools to educate all students to new and demanding standards, and will review the arguments why the current school system, designed for a different economy and a different century, must be fundamentally reorganized if the nation is to succeed in meeting its human capital development challenge.Topics covered will include school funding and governance, the precedent breaking federal legislation, No Child Left Behind, and charter schools and the voucher movement. Students can effect real-world change through research designed to elaborate the comprehensive school reform model developed at Penn's Operation Public Education that is now being piloted in some of the nation's schools.
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  • URBS 463: Brownfield Remediation:The Historical,Scientific,and Policy Dimensions of "Brownfields" in Old Industrial Cities

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Keene. This course gives an overview of the genesis of the so-called "Brownfield" problem and of the various efforts that our society is taking to try to solve, or at least, ameliorate, it. The course will place the "Brownfield" problem in the broader context of the growth and decline of the industrial base of cities like Philadelphia. Students will study the general constitutional and statutory framework within which we approach the problems of orphan, polluted sites and the disposal of contemporary solid wastes. They will also analyze the principal actions that have been taken by federal and state governments to address remediation and redevelopment of abandoned industrial sites. In addition, the course will explore environmental equity issues.
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  • URBS 472: Race and the City:The Origins & Prospects of the Black Underclass

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Hershberg. This course focuses on the origins and prospects of the black underclass and the competing public policies proposed to bring this group into the economic mainstream. The course is particularly concerned with understanding the separate effects on the underclass of racial discrimination and recent structural changes in the economy, transportation and housing which have shaped central cities and their regions.
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  • URBS 473: Community Organizing:History and Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Power is an ability to create change. Without access to power that might otherwise come from political, financial or personal networks, community organizing can often serve as the only viable source of power for the oppressed. Whereas organizing has unfortunately become a partisan buzzword during the 2008 presidential campaign, it has played a central role in US history since the Populist movement of the late 19th century, most notably as the foundation of the Civil Rights movement. This course will integrate the history and theories of community organizing in order to develop a praxis for each student to create chane in thieir own communities. Focused analysis of several key texts, inquiry and problem-posing methods rooted in the student's own context will serve as the primary means of study.
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  • URBS 480: Liberation and Ownership

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lamas. Formerly listed as URBS 540. Who is going to own what we all have a part in creating The history of the Americas, and of all peoples everywhere, is an evolving answer to the question of ownership. Ownership is about: the ties that bind and those that separate; the creation of community and the imposition of hierarchies; the dream of home ownership and ecological despoliation; dependency and the slave yearning to breathe free. Of all the issues relevant to democracy, oppression, and economic injustice, ownership is arguably the most important and least understood. Utilizing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and by focusing on particular global sites, students will assess and refine their views regarding ownership in light of their own social, political, religious, and/or ethical commitments.
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  • URBS 490: Community Planning and Local Institutions

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Harkavy. Exploration of the role of universities in enhancing the quality of life in American cities. Employs Penn-West Philadelphia experiences as a case study.
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  • URBS 499: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be repeated for credit.
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  • URBS 506: Advanced Topics in Urban Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Urban Studies offers various seminars under this course number. These courses explore current urban issues.
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  • URBS 510: Urban Communities & The Arts

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Stern. 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 516: Public Interest Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Sanday. This is an interdisciplinary workshop sponsored by Peggy Reeves Sanday (Dept. of Anthropology) with guest speakers from Communication Studies and other fields. Open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, the workshop is a response to Amy Gutmann's call for interdisciplinary cooperation across the University and to the Dept. of Anthropology's commitment to developing public interest research and practice as a disciplinary theme. The workshop will be run as an open interdisciplinary forum on framing a public interest social science that ties theory and action. Students are encouraged to apply the framing model to a public interest research and action topic of their choice. Examples of public interest topics to be discussed in class and through outside speakers include the meaning of "public interest," the ways in which the public interest is/is not addressed in the academy, and the relationship of studying the public interest to social justice. This is an academically-based-community-service (ABCS) course.
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