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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

GEO 2301 - Introduction to Urban Studies and Sustainability

Credits: 3 hrs
This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Urban Studies, the course will present models of how scholars approach cities from a variety of disciplinary viewpoints including: architecture, planning, law, sociology, history, political science, economics and geography. Students will learn some of the major concepts in the field of Urban Studies and they will study the works of leading scholars in the field over the last hundred years.
Level of Knowledge this Course Address(es): Foundation
WSSU Student Learning Outcome: Critical Reading
Latest Update(s) Approved by Academic Standards and Curriculum: October 18, 2023
Effective Date: Fall 2023