Urban Studies Programs Courses
Please note that the following list consists of all Urban Studies graduate courses offered. To find courses offered during a particular semester, see http://uwm.edu/schedule/.
- URB STD 450 Urban Growth and Development: A Global View
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Urban growth and development from an international perspective. - Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
- Last Taught: Fall 2017, Spring 1985.
- URB STD 450G Urban Growth and Development: A Global View
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Urban growth and development from an international perspective. - Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
- Last Taught: Fall 2017, Spring 1985.
- URB STD 497 Study Abroad:
- 1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially-prepared program course work. - Prerequisites: jr st; acceptance for Study Abroad Prog, contact CIE Overseas Programs, PER 166, 229-5182.
- Last Taught: UWinteriM 2020, Spring 2018.
- URB STD 497G Study Abroad:
- 1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially-prepared program course work. - Prerequisites: jr st; acceptance for Study Abroad Prog, contact CIE Overseas Programs, PER 166, 229-5182.
- Last Taught: UWinteriM 2020, Spring 2018.
- URB STD 625 Law and Urban Poverty
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Examination of the relationship between law and poverty, with emphasis upon federal legislative attempts in specific problem areas to alleviate the condition of poverty. - Prerequisites: jr st; cons instr.
- URB STD 625G Law and Urban Poverty
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Examination of the relationship between law and poverty, with emphasis upon federal legislative attempts in specific problem areas to alleviate the condition of poverty. - Prerequisites: jr st; cons instr.
- URB STD 639 Health Care and Public Policy in the United States
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Health care policies in the United States. - Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
- URB STD 639G Health Care and Public Policy in the United States
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Health care policies in the United States. - Prerequisites: jr st or cons instr.
- URB STD 726 Advanced Methods of Urban Community Development
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Evaluation of model cities, community health, community corporations, decentralized government. Practice issues: program design, federal policy, consulting, training, participation, decision making process, economic feasibility. Future models. - Prerequisites: grad st & cons instr.
- URB STD 741 Introduction to Metropolitan Development
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Preview to metropolitan development from an analytical viewpoint. Emphasis on the quantitative tools and conceptual framework necessary to interpret phenomena in a metropolitan area. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- URB STD 770 The Law and the American City
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Legal environment of american cities; powers of municipal corporations; relations of municipalities to state and federal governments as controlled by constitutions, statutes, and judicial decisions; special government units; local authorities and bill of rights limitations. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- URB STD 840 Community Health Planning
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Examination of processes of planning for delivery of integrated systems of health services to the urban community. Social, economic, political and organization factors are discussed and interrelated. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Last Taught: Fall 2005, Fall 1998, Spring 1996, Spring 1994.
- URB STD 841 Health Policy in Urban Society
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Emerging health policy in modern society. Emphasis on the uncertainty of goals, contending interest, and the urban context. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Last Taught: Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2002.
- URB STD 888 Candidate for Degree
- 0 cr. Graduate.
Available for master's students who must meet minimum credit load requirement. - Prerequisites: graduate standing.
- Course Rules: Fee for 1 cr assessed; unit does not count towards credit load for Fin Aid. Repeatable. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
- Last Taught: Summer 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019.
- URB STD 890 Urban Social Institutions Institute:
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Interdisciplinary study of selected urban and metropolitan problems. Focuses on the analysis of forces shaping the metropolitan milieu. - Prerequisites: grad st or cons UrbInst coord.
- Course Rules: Retakable w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
- URB STD 901 Urban Social Structure
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Comprehensive analysis of the emergence and institutionalization of cultural and social patterns in urban settings; and future American urban social structures. - Prerequisites: graduate standing.
- Course Rules: SOCIOL 901 and URB STD 901 are jointly offered and count as repeats of one another.
- Last Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017.
- URB STD 913 Seminar in Urban Political Process
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Analysis of the forces and processes that shape urban political life, with particular emphasis on patterns of government, political culture, power structures, and civic participation in urban and metropolitan communities. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Pol Sci 913 & Urb Std 913 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
- Last Taught: Spring 2023, Fall 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2013.
- URB STD 921 Seminar: Research Methods in Urban Studies
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Methodological orientations and techniques in urban studies: philosophy of science, conceptualization measurements, research designs, data collection, data analysis. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Last Taught: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019.
- URB STD 927 Urban Internship
- 2-3 cr. Graduate.
Advanced application and analysis of theory and acquired skills in supervised agency assignment. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Retakable to 6 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014.
- URB STD 939 Urban Lifestyle and Holistic Health Care
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Examines the implications of urban life style for health promotion and protection with special emphasis on developing appropriate health maintenance modalities. - Prerequisites: Urb Std 639(P) or 841(P).
- URB STD 945 The Internal Structure of the City
- 3 cr. Graduate.
The interaction of forces responsible for the evolution of the city as a spatial form and the allocation of economic and social activity within the spatial configuration. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Geog 945 & Urb Std 945 are jointly-offered; they count as repeats of one another.
- Last Taught: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2016.
- URB STD 965 Municipal Management
- 3 cr. Graduate.
The political, social, and economic contexts in which the urban manager functions, with an emphasis on managing municipal service delivery and resources. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Pub Adm 965(Pol Sci 965) & Urb Std 965 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
- Last Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2015.
- URB STD 971 Seminar on the History of American Urban Problems
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Historical analysis of the current problems of housing, race relations, the powers and functions of municipal government, law enforcement, and city planning in the United States. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Hist 971 & Urb Std 971 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
- Last Taught: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017.
- URB STD 979 Qualitative Research Methods
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Seminar on logic, design, and presentation of social science research. Inductive and qualitative methods, theory construction, and ethics and procedures of research in natural settings. - Prerequisites: graduate standing.
- Course Rules: SOCIOL 979 and URB STD 979 are jointly-offered and count as repeats of one another.
- Last Taught: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2011, Spring 2010.
- URB STD 980 Growth of Urban Society
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Seminar in historical, social, and ecological growth and development of urban agglomerations. Comparative framework will be used to examine the urban process. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Hist 980 & Urb Std 980 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
- Last Taught: Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Fall 2010, Spring 2009.
- URB STD 981 Argument in Urban Studies Scholarship
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Reading, recapitulating, critiquing, and writing urban-focused social science argument. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Last Taught: Fall 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2009, Spring 2007.
- URB STD 982 Advanced Quantitative Analysis
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Evaluation of different methods of generating data and their applications to the analysis of public policies and programs. - Prerequisites: graduate standing and a minimum score of 85 on department diagnostic exam.
- Course Rules: SOCIOL 982 and URB STD 982 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
- Last Taught: Fall 2022, Fall 2019, Fall 2016, Fall 2013.
- URB STD 983 Contemporary Urban Social Structure and Change
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Range of research issues conceptualized in terms of major categorical and more intentional social structures that bear on urban social actions. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Last Taught: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2016.
- URB STD 987 Urban Social Control
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Graduate seminar introducing concepts of social control, pervasiveness of social control, and how social control is maintained in urban environments. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Last Taught: Spring 2012, Fall 2000, Spring 1988, Spring 1986.
- URB STD 988 Seminar in Urban Social Institutions:
- 3 cr. Graduate.
Historical and sociological forces shaping selected urban issues and social institutions. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Retakable w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2001, Spring 2000.
- URB STD 990 Master's Research or Thesis
- 1-3 cr. Graduate.
Research or thesis work for students in the master's program in Urban Studies. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Last Taught: Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022.
- URB STD 991 Doctoral Research or Dissertation
- 1-6 cr. Graduate.
Research or dissertation work for students in the doctoral program in Urban Studies. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Retakable.
- Last Taught: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022.
- URB STD 998 Independent Study for Master's Students
- 1-3 cr. Graduate.
Independent study in a subject area of special need or interest after consultation with a faculty member. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Retakable w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022.
- URB STD 999 Independent Study for Doctoral Students
- 1-3 cr. Graduate.
Independent study in a subject area of special need or interest after consultation with a faculty member. - Prerequisites: grad st.
- Course Rules: Retakable w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019.