Undergraduate
Minors
Minor in Urban Studies
The minor in urban studies offers students an opportunity to develop a well-rounded and basic understanding of the components of urban life and of the forces that are shaping its future. Further, it provides students with a basic knowledge and understanding of the major factors that not only have contributed to the present but will also affect the future of the physical, internal, and social structure of our cities and metropolitan areas.
To achieve this goal, the minor in urban studies is interdisciplinary. In such a program, the student approaches the complexity of urban life from the perspective of economics, geography, history, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
Minor in Urban Studies requires satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
- completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school,
- completion of 15 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course,
- Completion of 6 credits at IU Indianapolis,
- course work must be completed in more than one department or program,
- no more that two courses from the same department
- to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form here.
The following courses are acceptable as urban studies courses:
- ANTH-E 380: Urban Anthropology (3 cr.)
- ECON-E 323: Urban Economics (3 cr.)
- GEOG-G 314: Urban Geography (3 cr.)
- HIST-A 347: American Urban History (3 cr.)
- POLS-Y 308: Urban Politics (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 329: Urban Sociology (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 330: Community (3 cr.)
Other courses may be acceptable, with prior permission.
