AP/SOSC 4713 6.00

Seminar In Critical Urban Studies

This course offers students an intensive blend of urban theory and research practice. Students engage with classic and current debates in Urban Studies in a seminar format, and conceptualize, research, and analyze urban sites and phenomena in a workshop format. Classes alternate between seminars in which students discuss key texts in Urban Studies, and workshops in which student's present work-in-progress for peer feedback and critique. Over the year, students select an urban site, phenomena, or set of documentary materials as the subject of an individual research project. A series of sequential assignments leads to a final, analytic paper firmly situated within the Urban Studies literature based upon the student's own research.