Urban Studies

2026-2027

80 courses

URBANST 100URDoing (Sub)Urban History (AMSTUD 200UR, HISTORY 200UR)
URBANST 103CHousing Visions (CEE 33C)
URBANST 108HHousing Affordability Crisis in California: Causes, Impacts, and Solutions (PUBLPOL 108H)
URBANST 110Introduction to Urban Studies (HISTORY 107, SOC 100)
URBANST 112The Urban Underclass (CSRE 149A, SOC 149, SOC 249)
URBANST 113Introduction to Urban Design: Contemporary Urban Design in Theory and Practice
URBANST 114The Urban Century: The City in Global Perspective (ANTHRO 126)
URBANST 115Urban Education (AFRICAAM 112, CSRE 112X, EDUC 112, EDUC 212, SOC 129X, SOC 229X)
URBANST 119Ancient Urbanism (ARCHLGY 153, CLASSICS 153)
URBANST 123ADesigning Research for Social Justice: Creating a Community Engaged Research Project (CSRE 146A)
URBANST 123BCommunity Engaged Research - Principles, Ethics, and Design (CSRE 146B, CSRE 346B)
URBANST 125Shades of Green: Exploring and Expanding Environmental Justice in Practice (CSRE 125E, EARTHSYS 125, EARTHSYS 225)
URBANST 126AEthics and Leadership in Public Service (CSRE 126C, EDUC 126A, ETHICSOC 79)
URBANST 127ACommunity Organizing: People, Power & Change
URBANST 127BLeadership, Organizing and Action: Intensive (CSRE 127B, ETHICSOC 127B)
URBANST 127CLeadership, Organizing and Action: Campaign Coaching (ETHICSOC 127C)
URBANST 127DStorytelling for Leadership, Organizing, and Action
URBANST 127EPublic Narrative in Action: Navigating Leadership Challenges
URBANST 129Making History in Silicon Valley (AMSTUD 159A, CSRE 159, FEMGEN 159A, HISTORY 159)
URBANST 131Very Impactful People (V.I.P.): Social Innovation & the Impact Entrepreneur
URBANST 132Concepts and Analytic Skills for the Social Sector (EARTHSYS 137)
URBANST 133Social Enterprise Workshop (EARTHSYS 133)
URBANST 135Challenging the Status Quo: Innovation in the Public Sector (CSRE 142C, EARTHSYS 135, INTNLREL 142)
URBANST 137Economics of Cities (ECON 148)
URBANST 139Black Geographies (AFRICAAM 139, ANTHRO 129B, HISTORY 139B)
URBANST 140FCasablanca - Algiers - Tunis : Cities on the Edge (COMPLIT 236A, CSRE 140S, FRENCH 236, FRENCH 336, HISTORY 245C, JEWISHST 236A)
URBANST 141Gentrification (CSRE 141)
URBANST 143MAXIMUM CITY: Post-Colonial Mumbai at the Crossroads of Global and South Asian Culture (ANTHRO 128B)
URBANST 144UCape to Cairo: Decolonization and African Urban Life 1940s-1960s (AFRICAAM 46, CSRE 46, HISTORY 46S)
URBANST 145Advanced Concepts in Geographic Information Science (EARTHSYS 145, EARTHSYS 245, ESS 235)
URBANST 147Discovering the World of Indus (ANTHRO 108, ARCHLGY 107)
URBANST 148Who Owns Your City?: Institutional Real Estate Seminar
URBANST 150From Gold Rush to Google Bus: History of San Francisco (AMSTUD 150X, HISTORY 252E)
URBANST 153CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, HISTORY 106E, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175)
URBANST 155Just Transitions Policy Lab (CSRE 155, EARTHSYS 119, EARTHSYS 219)
URBANST 155AEnvironmental Justice Colloquium (EARTHSYS 194A, HUMRTS 194A)
URBANST 156AThe Changing American City (AMSTUD 156, CSRE 156, SOC 156A, SOC 256A)
URBANST 157Comparative Housing Policy: A Global Perspective (PUBLPOL 157)
URBANST 158Spatial Thinking Through Black Writing (ENGLISH 252)
URBANST 159Study of the Commons, Commoning, and Cooperative Approaches to Self-Governance and Sustainability (EARTHSYS 195, EARTHSYS 295C)
URBANST 163Introduction to Land Use Policy and Planning (AMSTUD 163, EARTHSYS 168, PUBLPOL 163)
URBANST 164Sustainable Cities (EARTHSYS 160)
URBANST 165Sustainable Transportation: Policy and Planning in Practice (EARTHSYS 165)
URBANST 166How Cities Can Save the World (PUBLPOL 165)
URBANST 168Race, Nature, and the City (CSRE 168, EARTHSYS 169, SOC 168A)
URBANST 169Race, Ethnicity, and Water in Urban California (AFRICAAM 169A, AMSTUD 169, CSRE 260)
URBANST 169BRace and Ethnicity in Urban California: Research Seminar (AMSTUD 169B, CSRE 260B, SOC 169B)
URBANST 171Urban Design Studio
URBANST 172Visualizing the Past: Images of the Market Street Chinatown (ANTHRO 190, ARCHLGY 183)
URBANST 172AIntroduction to Urban, Rural, and Regional Planning
URBANST 173The Urban Economy (PUBLPOL 174)
URBANST 175Confronting Our Housing and Homelessness Crises: Policy, Politics, and the Law (PUBLPOL 171)
URBANST 180AUrban Agroecology (EARTHSYS 181A)
URBANST 180BUrban Agroecology (EARTHSYS 181B)
URBANST 181Urban Agroecology (EARTHSYS 181, EARTHSYS 281)
URBANST 183Team Urban Design Studio (CEE 131E)
URBANST 190APublic Service for Social Impact: Pathways to Purposeful Careers (CSRE 190A, ENGLISH 180, INTNLREL 74, POLISCI 74B, PSYCH 190A, PUBLPOL 75B, SOC 190A, SYMSYS 193)
URBANST 193Directed Research in Urban Studies
URBANST 193AUndergraduate Teaching Apprenticeship
URBANST 194Internship in Urban Studies
URBANST 195Special Projects in Urban Studies
URBANST 196Community-Engaged Scholars Program Seminar (EDUC 196)
URBANST 197Directed Reading
URBANST 198AHonors Thesis Support I
URBANST 198BHonors Thesis Support II
URBANST 199Senior Honors Thesis
URBANST 200AChoosing a Capstone Topic in Urban Studies
URBANST 201ACapstone Internship in Urban Studies
URBANST 202AJunior Seminar: Preparation for Research
URBANST 203Senior Seminar
URBANST 206PPolice Power in World History (ANTHRO 106P, CSRE 206P, CSRE 306P, HISTORY 206P, HISTORY 306P, INTNLREL 106P, SOC 206P)
URBANST 27DThe Detective and the City
URBANST 27QThe Detective and the City
URBANST 33Architectural Theory of the American City (AMSTUD 33, CEE 134E)
URBANST 65SITransportation and the Future City (CEE 65SI)
URBANST 66QLocal Government in Action
URBANST 7Global Imperial Cities of the Pacific World: 1900-2000 (HISTORY 7S)
URBANST 75QSlums: The Dark Side of the Cities (DLCL 75Q)
URBANST 83NCity, Space, Literature (ENGLISH 83N)
URBANST 84Designing a Community-Engaged Capstone or Thesis Project (UAR 83)