Urban Studies

2026–2027

115 courses

URBS 0002The City in South Asia
URBS 0003Origin and Culture of Cities
URBS 0010Homelessness & Urban Inequality
URBS 0011Urban Culture and Public Life
URBS 0050Ancient Civilizations of the World
URBS 0093Latinx Environmental Justice
URBS 0101Asian American Communities
URBS 0116American Race: A Philadelphia Story (SNF Paideia Program Course)
URBS 0171The Socialist City
URBS 0180AMusic in Urban Spaces
URBS 0180BMusic in Urban Spaces
URBS 0248The Urban Food Chain
URBS 0250Urban Apartheid: Policing, Segregation, and Justice
URBS 0270The Immigrant City
URBS 0350Du Bois’ Philadelphia
URBS 1000The City: Introduction to Urban Studies
URBS 1020Iraq: Ancient Cities and Empires
URBS 1050Metropolis: Culture of the City
URBS 1051The City in Literature and Film
URBS 1060Race and Ethnic Relations
URBS 1070Berlin: History, Politics, Culture
URBS 1090Urban Sociology
URBS 1120Community, Freedom, Violence: Writing the South Asian City
URBS 1150American Race: A Philadelphia Story (SNF Paideia Program Course)
URBS 1151Comparative Cultures of Resilience and Sustainability in the Netherlands and the United States
URBS 1153Transformations of Urban America: Making the Unequal Metropolis, 1945 to Today
URBS 1155Fair Housing, Segregation and the Law
URBS 1170Media and Popular Culture
URBS 1310Small Business Anthropology
URBS 1400Inequity and Empowerment: Urban Financial Literacy (SNF Paideia Program Course)
URBS 1780Faculty-Student Collaborative Action Seminar in Urban University-Community Rltn
URBS 2000Introduction to Urban Research
URBS 2020Urban Education
URBS 2040Urban Law
URBS 2050People and Design
URBS 2060Public Environment of Cities: Walking Philadelphia (SNF Paideia Program Course)
URBS 2090Neighborhood Dynamics of Crime
URBS 2100Urban Ethnography and Field Methods
URBS 2110Restorative Justice in the City: History, Theory and Practice (SNF Paideia Program Course)
URBS 2130Carceral Crisis: The Question of Abolition
URBS 2445Civil Dialogue Seminar: Civic Engagement In A Divided Nation
URBS 2450Poverty, Race and Health
URBS 2500Urban Public Policy: Philadelphia -- A Case Study
URBS 2501Cities in Chinese History
URBS 2520Urban Journalism
URBS 2530Cities, Suburbs, Regions
URBS 2580Global Urban Education
URBS 2590Nutritional Anthropology
URBS 2600Asian American Food
URBS 2700Urban Climate Policy & Action
URBS 2770Gender, Sex & Urban Life
URBS 2810The US Criminal Justice System in Urban Context
URBS 2850Health on the urban margins: The experience of health in American cities
URBS 2900Metropolitan Nature
URBS 2940Global Cities: Urbanization in the Global South
URBS 2952Palermo: Empires, Mafia, and Migration
URBS 2970Nature Culture Environmentalism
URBS 2999Independent Study
URBS 3000Urban Internship Seminar
URBS 3050Housing, Race, and Community in the United States
URBS 3120Stigmatized Heroes: U.S. Veterans (SNF Paideia Program Course)
URBS 3140Participatory Cities (SNF Paideia Program Course)
URBS 3200Who Gets Elected and Why? The Science of Politics
URBS 3230Tutoring School: Theory and Practic
URBS 3250Urban Schools as Neighborhood Infrastructure
URBS 3260Tutoring in Urban Public Elementary Schools: A Child Development Perspective
URBS 3300GIS Applications in Social Science
URBS 3424Political Ecologies of the City
URBS 3500Cities and Stories
URBS 3705Jews and the City
URBS 3930Latinx Environmental Justice
URBS 3999Independent Study
URBS 4000Senior Seminar
URBS 4010Urban Studies Honors
URBS 4050Religion, Social Justice & Urban Development
URBS 4080Urban Studies Proseminar
URBS 4120How about Building Nonprofits: Community, Policy, and Practice in Philly
URBS 4150Urban Real Estate Markets
URBS 4170Cities and Sustainability
URBS 4190Urban Transportation in Flux