SOC 3451W is also offered in Spring 2024
SOC 3451W is also offered in Spring 2023
Summer 2017 | SOC 3451W Section 001: Cities & Social Change (88109)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:30AM - 12:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Carlson School of Management 2-224
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Social, economic, cultural foundations of modern city. Theories/models of urbanism from Wirth to Sassen. Migration/ethnic enclaves. Racial segregation, social control. Urban social movements. Urban-suburban divide. Decline of urban liberalism. "Brazilianization" of American city. prereq: 1001 recommended, Soc majors/minors must register A-F
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?karak014+SOC3451W+Summer2017
- Class Description:
- Using sociology, along with history and urban studies this course, will follow the rise of "cities". We will study the great scholars of urbanism, including Wirth, Engels, DuBois, Castells and Sassen, to apply their models to topics such as the rise of modernism, the city as a milieu of design and consumption, ecological sustainability, the urban-suburban divide, and the contemporary "Brazilianization" of the American city.
- Learning Objectives:
- What makes a space urban? How can we make sense of urbanism? How are cities different than the countryside, how are they interlinked? We will start our summer-long journey with these questions that have informed scholars of the urban, people who both theorized about and influenced the making of cities. In order to make sense of the urban phenomenon we will historicize it, as social scientists usually do. We will look at the idea of the polis, following it in medieval European towns and industrial cities. Reading visions of architects and designers will help us investigate the link between modernity, modernism, and cities, as well as the suburban dream and its critiques. Before the midterm we will see how people, who will of course be raced, classed and gendered fit in our historicized model of cities and discuss how our backgrounds influence, and contribute to the urban experience. In the second half, we will do some weaving and connect the world by looking at global cities, unequal urban development, and deconstruct the notion of development itself, through cases of Turkey and Brazil. Lastly, we will tackle with gentrification, city as a space of consumption, and nostalgia.;Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-;Times New Roman">
- Grading:
- 24% Midterm
36%Short Response Papers
10%Participation
30%Final Paper
- Exam Format:
- Midterm consists of short answer questions, a short essay and comparison. It is a tool to assess how we are doing in class, and if we are ready to move ahead or linger some more on previous subjects.
- Class Format:
- 40% Lecture
25% Discussion
35% Other Style writing exercises, films and other in-class activities.
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Session
15-20 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam, 1 Final Paper Short Response Papers
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/88109/1175
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/karak014_SOC3451W_Summer2017.pdf
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 April 2017
ClassInfo Links - Summer 2017 Sociology Classes Taught by Yagmur Karakaya