Total Hours Required: 18 Minimum of 9 hours from UMKC (not transfer credits)

Courses selected to meet minor requirements cannot be double-counted. Academic Minors are optional. They will be noted on the academic transcript.

 

Required Courses

__ URBAN ST 101 : Intro to Urban Studies (also listed as UPD 101 or BLKS 101) OR

__ GEOG 309: Urban Geography OR

__ SOCIOL 431: Social Organization of the City

 

Urban Research Methods (choose one course):

__ UPD 203: GIS for Urban Planning

__ UPD 260: History of Planning and Urban Design

__ UPD 300: Quantitative Planning Methods

__ PUB-ADM 410: Research Methods

__ GEOG 203: lntro to Geog. Inform. Systems (GIS)

__ SOCIOL 362: Methods of Sociological Research

__ SOCIOL 434: Spatial Thinking in Social Science

 

Urban Political Economy (choose one course):

__ POL-SCI 438: Urban Politics

__ POL-SCI 328: State and Local Government

__ ECON 336: Kansas City Economy

__ ECON 458: Urban Economics

__ POL-SCI 310: African Americans & the Political Process

__ ECON 395: The Economics of Poverty

__ BLKS 302: Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations in African American Studies

__ GEOG 311: Economic Geography

 

Diversity and the City (choose one course):

__ ECON 314: Race, Class, and Gender

__ ANTHRO 331/SOCIOL 331: Urban Anthropology

__ POL-SCI 424: Urban Politics and Community Power

__ ANTHRO 322/SOCIOL 322: Race and Ethnic Relations

__ ANTHRO 302/SOCIOL 302: Social Stratification

__  SOCIOL 433 Immigration and the City

__ BLKS 201: Global Systems and the Origins of Black American Culture and Institutions

__ CJC 316: Race, Class and Justice

__ GEOG 334: Gender and the Environment

 

The Urban Built Environment (choose one course):

__ HISTORY 356: The Rise of the City in the U.S.

__ UPD 432: Urban Environmental Planning & Design

__ PSYCH 403: Environmental Psychology

__ GEOG 309: Urban Geography

__ UPD 472: Urban Redevelopment

__ PUB-ADM 497: Urban Environmental Policy

__ PHILOS 370 Environmental Ethics

 

Urban Policy and Urban Affairs (choose one course):

__ PUB-ADM 415: Issues in Urban Administration

__ ECON 435: Public Finance

__ UPD 270: Urban Planning Theory and Practice

__ POL-SCI 438: Urban Politics

__ POL-SCI 328: State and Local Government

__ UPD 450: Planning Law & Practices

__ PHILOS 450WI: Ethics and Government

__ POL-SCI 314: Politics of KC Metro