(Interdisciplinary) Acting Coordinator: Professor Martin Burke (Carman Hall, Room 202B) Many students with majors in the social sciences wish to focus their course work on the problems of urban areas. Participation in the Urban Studies Specialization enables these students to pursue their interests in a more structured way, while at the same time completing all course work requirements in their own majors. Participation in the Urban Studies Specialization in no way replaces a major. Rather, it provides a setting for students to choose their elective courses around urban themes, to meet students and faculty from other majors who share these concerns, and to participate in interdisciplinary urban studies seminars and field research. Programs Application Students wishing to specialize in urban studies should have taken at least one of the urban-related courses listed below as a prerequisite and be recommended by the instructor in that course to the Urban Studies Committee. The student should then apply to the committee for admission to the specialization. The courses acceptable as prerequisites are: ANT 342: Anthropology of Urbanization BLS 178: Introduction to the Urban Community BLS 226: Community Organization ECO 309: Public Finance ECO 314: Urban Economics FCS (WST) 180: Modern Housing GEH 167: The New York Metropolitan Region HIU 333: American Urban History HIU 334: American Urban Architecture POL 305: Public Administration POL 310: Urban Politics and Government PSY 336: Psychology of Ethnicity PSY 338: Community Psychology SOC 234: Urban Sociology Requirements of the Specialization Students accepted for the specialization meet with a faculty committee to plan a sequence of four electives related to urban studies, in addition to the two courses URB 450: Urban Studies Seminar and URB 470: Field Research. The electives are to be chosen from existing course offerings in the social sciences outside the student's own major. They may be chosen from the list of prerequisites for entrance into the specialization, or they may be courses that receive specific approval from the faculty committee. URB 450 (Urban Studies Seminar) is open only to students in the specialization who have completed at least three electives in urban studies-related courses. The interdisciplinary field research course, URB 470, is also open only to participants in the Urban Studies Specialization and may not be taken until URB 450 has been completed. Courses in Urban Studies *URB 450: Urban Studies Seminar. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Open only to students in the Urban Studies Specialization.) *URB 470: Field Research. 1 or 2 1/2 days plus seminar, 3 credits. PREREQ: URB 450.