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URBANST 202: Preparation for Senior Research (SOC 202)

Required of all juniors in Urban Studies and those juniors in Sociology planning on writing an honors thesis . Students write a research prospectus and grant proposal, which may be submitted for funding. Research proposal in final assignment may be carried out in Spring or Summer Quarter; consent required for Autumn Quarter research.
Terms: Win | Units: 5

URBANST 203: Senior Seminar (SOC 204)

Conclusion of capstone sequence. Students write a substantial paper based on the research project developed in 202. Students in the honors program may incorporate paper into their thesis. Guest scholar chosen by students.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5

URBANST 102: Social and Urban Development in Beijing: Field Observation & Service Learning

In this course, we explore China's urban and social development through the lens of Beijing. We investigate issues such as land use and land rights, housing, education, migrants in cities, and the repercussions of unequal development and a frayed social safety net. BOSP students will communicate and share their unique perspective with students at the Stanford home campus who are also studying China's urbanization. While in Beijing, BOSP students will also have the opportunity to participate in documentary fieldwork: observing the city and its patterns of life, participating in field trips, and completing a service project with a Beijing community organization. Students will come away with an up-close view of the social implications of China's rapid economic and urban growth, and the ability to put a human face on the challenges of development. Note: Course is open to Stanford-in-Beijing students.

URBANST 106: City, Society, Literature- 19th Century Histories (HISTORY 206A, HISTORY 306A)

This course examines the rise of modern cities through an analysis of urban society and the imaginative literature of the 1800s.

URBANST 121: Public Scholarship & Social Change

Introduces students to the diverse ways of ¿doing¿ public/community-engaged scholarship, including public interest and public policy-oriented research, design research, social entrepreneurship, activist/advocacy and community-based research models. Through a multidisciplinary set of case studies of actual research/action projects in the US and abroad, students will compare and assess research models in terms of methodological approach, academic rigor, control and ownership of the research process, means and modes of data dissemination, researcher subjectivity, depth of community partnership, and relative potential for sustainable, long-term community impact. The course material is designed to provide students with a broad framework and context to imagine how to produce their own scholarship/research as a form of public service and social transformation.

URBANST 127: Community Planning Workshop

Students work in teams to conduct research, analyze and evaluate alternatives, and make recommendations for possible solutions to local community development issues. Students work with community partners to blend theory and practice to accomplish a community based project.
| Repeatable 1 times (up to 5 units total)

URBANST 139: Urban Africa (AFRICAST 138B, ANTHRO 138B)

This course explores the production of urban space and the social, cultural, and political significance of cities in sub-Saharan Africa. Topics include: architecture and the built environment; urban planning and colonial public health; migration and rural-urban dynamics; youth, politics, and popular culture; violence, policing, and the privatization of public space; (in)formality in housing, transportation, and employment; class, gender, and mobility in the public sphere; urban citizenship and `right to the city¿ movements; gentrification, tourism, and the commodification of poverty; and efforts to (re)theorize postcolonial African cities. Readings are drawn from anthropology, history, urban studies, and geography. Discussion will situate struggles over urban forms and the contours of everyday life within broader trends in the political economy of the region from the late colonial period to the present.
Instructors: West, A. (PI)

URBANST 140: Urban Ethnography (ANTHRO 102)

Ethnographic research and writing focuses on the ways our lives are shaped by interacting forces such as history, political economy, and creative cultural practices. In the last fifty years, more and more cultural anthropology has been carried out in urban contexts, due to both urbanization around the world and changes in anthropology as a field. This seminar focuses on careful reading and analysis of book-length ethnographies about urban cultures, people and dynamics to consider what the theory and methodological tools of anthropology have to offer us as we seek to better understand ¿the city.¿ Readings include a variety of approaches to ethnographic research in and/or about cities, with a mix from different eras and about different cities around the world.

URBANST 144: Cities and Citizens in the Middle East (ANTHRO 149A)

This course will explore historical formation of cities and citizens in the Eastern Mediterranean since the 19th century.We will explore urban development, economy, social classes and local politics with a focus Egypt and Turkey and in particular two world-historical cities, Cairo and Istanbul. Drawing on history, cultural anthropology, geography and sociology disciplines, we will examine how urban space in Egypt and Turkey have reconfigured through histories of colonialism, nationalism, developmentalism and globalization. Rural to urban immigration, informality, gendered places, consumption, urban regeneration, local politics and branding the city will be the themes of our discussion. We will study these themes in relation to two main questions: How do spatial changes engender new social practices and redefine cultural difference?; How do power struggles at the intersection of local and global interests shape urban change? It will be of interest for urban studies majors and other students at all levels who would like to study urban struggles and change in Turkey, Egypt, the Middle East and the Global South.

URBANST 160: Environmental Policy and the City in U.S. History

Looks at the historical backgrounds of current issues in urban environmental policy, including waste, transportation, air pollution, and other major issues. Covers the period 1800 to the present. Explores the relevance of historical scholarship
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