SOC 3451W is also offered in Spring 2024
SOC 3451W is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2014 | SOC 3451W Section 001: Cities & Social Change (64782)
- 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
Delivery Medium
- Meets With:
SOC 3451V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 425
- 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.
- Class Description:
- Description: This course will use a combination of sociology, history, first-person accounts, and film to follow the rise of urbanism in Europe and the United States. We will read key texts by some of the great scholars and shapers of urban life, including Louis Wirth, Walt Whitman, Engels, W.E.B. DuBois, Guy DeBord, Jane Jacobs, Sharon Zukin and David Harvey, and apply their models to topics including the phenomnology of urban life, segregation and social control, the city as artistic milieu, ecological sustainability, the urban-suburban divide, and the contemporary "Brazilianization" of the American city. Lectures and group work, blogged discussions and reading reports, and qualitative fieldwork in the Twin Cities will help the students to develop their insights into cities and urban life. This process will culminate in a substantial term paper, developed through a three-stage planning, drafting, and revision process over several weeks.
- Grading:
- Other Grading Information: 20% Official Blog Entries 10% ethnographic exercise 10% first exam 10% second exam 10% first polished draft 25% final paper 15% class and blog citizenship.
- Exam Format:
- Mostly long answer.
- Class Format:
- 30% Lecture, 40% Discussion. 30% writing exercises, films and other in-class activities.
- Workload:
- Other Workload: 50-75 pages of reading per week, 45 pages of writing per semester. There will be 2 exams, up to 4 quizzes and one term paper. Final projects incorporating artwork, music, or fiction may also be approved subject to consultation with the professor.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64782/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2013
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2014 Sociology Classes Taught by Teresa Gowan