Courses

Surveys, Methods, Electives

URBN 360: Urban Lab: An Urban World

Professor: Joyce Hsiang
Location: RDH 212

Understanding the urban environment through methods of research, spatial analysis, and diverse means of representation that address historical, social, political, and environmental issues that consider design at the scale of the entire world. Through timelines, maps, diagrams, collages and film, students frame a unique spatial problem and speculate on urbanization at the global scale.

Prerequisites: For non-majors: permission of the instructor is required. For ARCH majors: ARCH 150, 200, and 280. 

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Fall 2024
Requirement Type:
Methods

URBN 200: Scales of Design

Professor: Bimal Mendis
Location: RDH HASTINGS

Exploration of architecture and urbanism at multiple scales from the human to the world. Consideration of how design influences and shapes the material and conceptual spheres through four distinct subjects: the human, the building, the city, and the world. Examination of the role of architects, as designers, in constructing and shaping the inhabited and urban world. Lectures, readings, reviews and four assignments that address the spatial and visual ramifications of design.

Not open to first-year students. 

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: Thursday 11:30 AM - 1:20 PM
Requirement Type:
Surveys

URBN 230: Introduction to the Study of the City

Professor: Alexander Garvin
Location: RDH 322

An examination of forces shaping American cities and strategies for dealing with them. Topics include housing, commercial development, parks, zoning, urban renewal, landmark preservation, new towns, and suburbs. The course includes games, simulated problems, fieldwork, lectures, and discussion.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring
Day/Time: Tuesday 1:30 - 3:20 PM
Requirement Type:
Methods

URBN 280: American Architecture and Urbanism

Insturctor: Elihu Rubin

Location: YUAG AUD

Introduction to the study of buildings, architects, architectural styles, and urban landscapes, viewed in their economic, political, social, and cultural contexts, from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: public and private investment in the built environment; the history of housing in America; the organization of architectural practice; race, gender, ethnicity and the right to the city; the social and political nature of city building; and the transnational nature of American architecture.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: Monday & Wednesday, 11:35 AM - 12:25 PM
Requirement Type:
Surveys

URBN 304: The Politics of "The Wire": HBO's Portrayal of the American City

Professor: Allison Harris
Location: LC 101
Also listed as: AFAM 164, PLSC 263

This class uses HBO’s groundbreaking series “The Wire” to investigate cities, their problems, and their politics. We watch all five seasons of the show as social scientists and use it to learn about important social scientific concepts and theories, and apply those theories to such phenomena as the politics of crime, policing, and local elections. Each week, the assigned readings—articles and book excerpts from political science as well as other social sciences—highlight the social scientific concepts displayed in the assigned episodes and provide context for lectures. All of the assignments work together to expose students to social science, how social science is conducted, and how political science can help us better understand the world around us.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: MW 2:30pm-3:20pm
Requirement Type:
Electives

URBN 314: History of Landscape in Western Europe and the United States: Antiquity to 1950

Professor: Bryan Fuermann
Location: RDH 706
Also listed as: ARCH 314

This course is designed as an introductory survey of the history of landscape architecture and the wider, cultivated landscape in Western Europe and the United States from the Ancient Roman period to mid-twentieth century America. Included in the lectures, presented chronologically, are the gardens of Ancient Rome, medieval Europe, the early and late Italian Renaissance, 17th century France, 18th century Britain, 19th century Britain and America with its public and national parks, and mid-twentieth century America. The course focuses each week on one of these periods, analyzes in detail iconic gardens of the period, and placse them within their historical and theoretical context.

Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: Th 1:30pm-3:20pm
Requirement Type:
Electives

URBN 324: The City Before and After The Tubewell

Professor: Anthony Acciavatti
Location: RDH 211
Also listed as: ARCH 324, SAST 384

What do such disparate cities as New Delhi, Jakarta, Mexico City, and Phoenix all have in common? In short, each city relies on a fantastic technology that few people know anything about but has transformed the shape and life of cities and their hinterlands: the tubewell. Technologies for drawing up groundwater, tubewells are used in places where municipal water supply is non-existent, unreliable, or often polluted. A minor technology with a global reach, the tubewell is to the city what the elevator was to the skyscraper in the booming American metropolis of the early twentieth century. In this course we look at how tubewells and other decentralized technologies have radically transformed urban and agricultural spaces across the globe since the nineteenth century to the present. We watch how people exult before these technologies; we witness how governments and philanthropies as well as farmers and townspeople appropriate them for radically different ends. And we consider why. 

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: M 11:35am-1:25pm
Requirement Type:
Electives

URBN 341: Globalization Space

Professor: Keller Easterling
Location: LC 102
Also listed as: ARCH 341, GLBL 253, LAST 318

Infrastructure space as a primary medium of change in global polity. Networks of trade, energy, communication, transportation, spatial products, finance, management, and labor, as well as new strains of political opportunity that reside within their spatial disposition. Case studies include free zones and automated ports around the world, satellite urbanism in South Asia, high-speed rail in Japan and the Middle East, agripoles in southern Spain, fiber optic submarine cable in East Africa, spatial products of tourism in North Korea, and management platforms of the International Organization for Standardization.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: MW 10:30am-11:20am
Requirement Type:
Surveys

URBN 345: Civic Art: Introduction to Urban Design

Professor: Alan Plattus
Location: RDH HASTINGS
Also listed as: ARCH 345

Introduction to the history, analysis, and design of the urban landscape. Principles, processes, and contemporary theories of urban design; relationships between individual buildings, groups of buildings, and their larger physical and cultural contexts. Case studies from New Haven and other world cities.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Fall 2019
Day/Time: W 9:30am-11:10am
Requirement Type:
Surveys

URBN 353: Urban Field Geography

Professor: Elihu Rubin
Location: RDH 211
Also listed as: ARCH 353

A methods seminar in urban field geography. Traveling on foot, students engage in on-site study of architecture, urban planning and design, cultural landscapes, and spatial patterns in the city. Learn how to “read” the urban landscape, the intersection of forces that have produced the built environment over time.   

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Fall 2019
Day/Time: T 1:30pm-3:20pm
Requirement Type:
Methods

URBN 362: Urban Lab: City Making

Professor: Jesse LeCavalier
Location: RDH 705
Also listed as: ARCH 362

How architects represent, analyze, construct, and speculate on critical urban conditions as distinct approaches to city making. Investigation of a case study analyzing urban morphologies and the spatial systems of a city through diverse means of representation that address historical, social, political, and environmental issues. Through maps, diagrams, collages and text, students learn to understand spatial problems and project urban interventions.

Prerequisites: For non-majors: permission of the instructor is required. For ARCH majors: ARCH 150, 200, 280, and 360. 

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Fall 2019
Day/Time: Th 10:30am-1:20pm
Requirement Type:
Methods

URBN 385: New Haven & the American City

Professor: Elihu Rubin, Alan Plattus
Location: SSS 114
Also listed as: AMST 198, PLSC 279, ARCH 385, HIST 152, SOCY 149

What do such disparate cities as New Delhi, Jakarta, Mexico City, and Phoenix all have in common? In short, each city relies on a fantastic technology that few people know anything about but has transformed the shape and life of cities and their hinterlands: the tubewell. Technologies for drawing up groundwater, tubewells are used in places where municipal water supply is non-existent, unreliable, or often polluted. A minor technology with a global reach, the tubewell is to the city what the elevator was to the skyscraper in the booming American metropolis of the early twentieth century. In this course we look at how tubewells and other decentralized technologies have radically transformed urban and agricultural spaces across the globe since the nineteenth century to the present. We watch how people exult before these technologies; we witness how governments and philanthropies as well as farmers and townspeople appropriate them for radically different ends. And we consider why. 

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Fall 2019
Day/Time: TTh 11:35am-12:25pm
Requirement Type:
Surveys

URBN491: Senior Project

Professor: Marta Caldeira

An essay or project in the student’s area of concentration. Students in the history, theory, and criticism track or in the urban studies track pursue independent research with an adviser; this project must terminate in a senior essay.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: HTBA
Requirement Type:
American Studies

AMST 196: Race, Class & Gender in American Cities

Professor: Laura Barraclough
Location: SSS 114
Also listed as: AFAM 196, ER&M 226, SOCY 190

What do such disparate cities as New Delhi, Jakarta, Mexico City, and Phoenix all have in common? In short, each city relies on a fantastic technology that few people know anything about but has transformed the shape and life of cities and their hinterlands: the tubewell. Technologies for drawing up groundwater, tubewells are used in places where municipal water supply is non-existent, unreliable, or often polluted. A minor technology with a global reach, the tubewell is to the city what the elevator was to the skyscraper in the booming American metropolis of the early twentieth century. In this course we look at how tubewells and other decentralized technologies have radically transformed urban and agricultural spaces across the globe since the nineteenth century to the present. We watch how people exult before these technologies; we witness how governments and philanthropies as well as farmers and townspeople appropriate them for radically different ends. And we consider why. 

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: TTh 10:30am-11:20am
Requirement Type:
Surveys

AMST 331: Photographing the City: Urban Pictures, Urban Spaces

Professor: Kristin Hankins
Location: WALL81 101

How do we see places? How do we see boundaries? How do our practices of looking reproduce, complicate, and transform places? This junior seminar explores these questions through an engagement with American urban places and analysis of their representations throughout the 20th century, beginning with photography at the turn of the century and ending with contemporary social practice art projects. We analyze the relationship between visual culture and public space; the ways in which urban visual culture conceals and reveals power dynamics; and different ways of approaching, engaging, and representing urban places. The primary objective is to foster critical engagement with urban space and its representations—to develop an analytical framework which grounds exploration of the impact of representational strategies on experiences of space and vice versa.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Wednesday, 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives

AMST 350: Political Landscapes of Tourism

Professor: Jacinda Tran
Location: RKZ 04

This interdisciplinary course mobilizes tourism as a site for exploring dimensions and scales of power along racial, gendered, sexual, economic, historical, and geopolitical axes. By taking spatial analysis as the main mode of inquiry, students will learn how to critically read the visual cultures, laboring bodies, and uneven topographies that comprise the cultural terrain of tourist landscapes. How does the tourist industrial complex develop alongside and sustain modes of colonial, military, and financial world-making? In what ways do semiotic, affective, and technologic regimes map onto geographies of tourism? Students will develop critical approaches towards the making of place and memory through tourism in order to reveal colonial and capitalist underpinnings of space.

Cross-listed as: ER&M 356, WGSS 235

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: T 1:30pm-3:20pm
Requirement Type:
Electives

AMST 368: Marxism and Social Movements in the Nineteenth Century

Professor: Michael Denning
Location: LC 208
Also listed as: ER&M 224

The history and theory of the socialist and Marxist traditions from their beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the world upheavals of 1917–19. Relations to labor, feminist, abolitionist, and anticolonial movements.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives

AMST 425: American Culture and the Rise of the Environment

Professor: Michael Warner
Location: WLH 202
Also listed as: ENGL 430 & EVST 430

U.S. literature from the late eighteenth century to the Civil War explored in the context of climate change. Development of the modern concept of the environment; the formation and legacy of key ideas in environmentalism; effects of industrialization and national expansion; utopian and dystopian visions of the future.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Wednesday, 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives

ASMT 348: Space, Place & Landscape

Professor: Laura Barraclough
Location: WLH 007
Also listed as: EVST 304

Survey of core concepts in cultural geography and spatial theory. Ways in which the organization, use, and representation of physical spaces produce power dynamics related to colonialism, race, gender, class, and migrant status. Multiple meanings of home; the politics of place names; effects of tourism; the aesthetics and politics of map making; spatial strategies of conquest. Includes field projects in New Haven.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Fall 2017
Day/Time: Th 1:30pm-3:20pm
Requirement Type:
Methods
Anthropology

ANTH 303: Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology

Professor: Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer
Location: WTS B51

The fundamentals of cultural anthropology methods. The foundations of fieldwork approaches, including methods, theories, and the problem of objectivity.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2018
Day/Time: T 3:30pm-5:20pm
Requirement Type:
Methods

ANTH 339: Urban Ethnography of Asia

Professor: Erik Harms
Introduction to the anthropological study of contemporary Asian cities. Focus on new ethnographies about cities in East, Southeast, and South Asia. Topics include rural-urban migration, redevelopment, evictions, social movements, land grabbing, master-planned developments, heritage preservation, utopian aspirations, social housing, slums and precariousness, and spatial cleansing.
Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Erik Harms
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: Tuesday, 9:25 a.m. - 11:15a.m.
Requirement Type:
Electives

ANTH 414: Hubs, Mobilities, and World Cities

Professor: Helen Siu
Location: SA10 105
Also listed as: EAST 417 & 575, ANTH 575

Analysis of urban life in historical and contemporary societies. Topics include capitalist and postmodern transformations; class, gender, ethnicity, and migration; and global landscapes of power and citizenship.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Requirement Type:
Surveys
Architecture

ARCH 312: Modern Architecture in a Global Context, 1750-present

Professor: Craig Buckley
Location: LORIA 351

Architects, movements, and buildings central to the development of modern architecture from the mid eighteenth century through to the present. Common threads and differing conceptions of modern architecture around the globe. The relationship of architecture to urban transformation; the formulation of new typologies; architects’ responses to new technologies and materials; changes in regimes of representation and media. Architects include Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, John Soane, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lina Bo Bardi, Louis Kahn, and Kenzo Tange. 

Cross-listed as: HSAR 312

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 1:20 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives

ARCH 3229: Urban History of Amazonia

Professor: Ana Duran
Location: RDH 211

The urban frontier in Amazonia is among the fastest growing in the world: 80 percent of it is “informal.” Under export-oriented, neo-extractivist policies, this trend is unlikely to revert. Nevertheless, scarce research has focused on the urban phenomenon in Amazonia. How can burgeoning forest cities be retrofitted/designed? Could urbanization be allied with forest resurgence in the region? Can environmental history and archaeology influence the way in which we approach Amazonian settlements? What can we learn from local communities? Could their ancestral knowledge be adapted to current needs and illuminate design? In this seminar, we critically probe current approaches to sustainability, aware that “green solutions” being advanced by the global north often demand further extraction of natural resources in the global south. We analyze the complex intertwining between global capitalism and Amazonia, as well as the critical role both are called to play in lieu of climate change.

Prerequisites:  Limited enrollment. Permission of the instructor is required. 

Course Type: Graduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: W 11am-12:50pm
Requirement Type:
Electives

ARCH 4220: Port Cities

Professor: Alan Plattus
Location: RDH 706

Historically, port cities around the world have played a crucial role as the nodes of connection and exchange for both local and vast global networks of production, trade, culture and power.  Since the industrial revolution, rapid development of new technologies of transport and communication have challenged the planners and developers of these cities to both adapt and innovate, creating new and hybrid spatial typologies and transforming vast areas of urbanized waterfront and rural hinterland.  These technologies, particularly containerization and the scale of modern oil tankers, have made old port areas obsolete, provoking the need and opportunity for redevelopment of significant areas of waterfront in the heart of historic cities, and raising challenging questions about economic restructuring in relation to de-industrialization, gentrification, heritage and tourism.  Through all this, port cities continue to be magnets for new immigrants and bastions of cosmopolitan exchange, even as older populations struggle to adapt to new conditions of labor and production.   And now, climate change and its impact on coastal and riparian geographies adds an additional layer of complexity and challenge.  This seminar will consider the changing and persistent patterns, functions and images of port cities, particularly in the context of their regional and global networks, researching, analyzing and mapping the architectural and spatial manifestations of those systems, and how they have transformed and are transforming urban landscapes.

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required. 

Course Type: Graduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: W 11am-12:50pm
Requirement Type:
Electives

ARCH 4233: Ghost Towns

Professor: Elihu Rubin
Location: RDH 322

This seminar operates on two fronts:  one is to generate and debate a “ghost town” history of twentieth- and twenty first-century urban (re)development; a history of the present that encompasses the politics of memory and practices in heritage and preservation.  (See descriptions in Weekly Breakdown.)  The second is to engage in public history “campaigns” for a series of post-industrial sites in New Haven, Connecticut.    

The term ghost town came into broad use in the 1920s with the rise of automobile tourism to describe the abandoned or near-deserted remnants of 19th century mining landscapes in the American West.  As a guiding metaphor and cultural landscape, ghost town represents a range of aesthetic, interpretive, and economic responses to capital flight and urban abandonment.  To what extent might these ideas apply to the quasi-derelict post-industrial space in the midst of our contemporary cities?

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required. 

Course Type: Graduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: T 2pm-3:50pm
Requirement Type:
Electives

ARCH 4243: Case Studies in Urban Design:Hudson Yards-Why, How and What Else?

Professor: Michael Samuelian
Location: RDH 212

Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development project in the United States, the district will ultimately have 120,000 office workers, 30,000 residents, tens of millions of visitors and an GDP larger than many countries. As its towers begin to redefine the world-famous Manhattan skyline critics descend, the public gawks and questions inevitably rise. Why did this happen? How did this happen? Is it a good thing? And what are the impacts to cities across the country and around the world as the project continues to grow, develop and garner attention?

This course will explore and research the genesis of the project, which today is largely viewed as a billionaire’s fantasy, but in fact started with local politician’s fear of New York losing its edge as the world’s commercial capital. 

Permission of the instructor is required.

Course Type: Graduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: W 11am-12:50pm
Requirement Type:
Electives

ARCH 4244: Cartographies of Climate Change

Professor: Joyce Hsiang
Location: RDH 212

Climate change disproportionately affects the people and places with the least power and resources. As our sea levels have risen, so too has the extreme socioeconomic disparity of specific communities and countries, creating a drowning class of climate refugees. Entire countries on the front lines of sea level rise face the specter of nationhood without territory, despite the undeniable fact that their contribution to this global problem is negligible. And if climate change is in fact “the result of human activity since the mid-20th century,” it is in actuality a largely male-made phenomenon, if we unpack the gender dynamics and underlying power structures of the proto-G8 nations, the self-proclaimed leaders of industrialization. These power dynamics become even further exacerbated as we consider the implications of the particularly American interest in doubling-down on investing in the heaviest piece of infrastructure ever – climate engineering. The architectural community appears to be in agreement. Climate change is a fundamental design problem. And yet calls to action have been ineffectual, responses underwhelming in the face of this overwhelming challenge. As the architectural community is eagerly poised to jump on the design bandwagon, this course seeks to reveal, foreground, empower and give physical form to the spatial dimensions and power dynamics of the people and places most impacted by climate change. More broadly, the course aspires to help students develop their own critical stance on climate change and the role architects play.

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required. 

Course Type: Graduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: W 2pm-3:50pm
Requirement Type:
Electives
College Seminars

CSGH 400: Power and Organizing in the City [Grace Hopper]

Professor: Peter Crumlish
Location: GH (Grace Hopper) LEWIS

How power is concentrated and distributed in an urban context and ways in which people organize and mobilize communities to bring about social change. Focus on New Haven as a case study, with community site visits and meetings with community leaders.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Thursday 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives

CSSM 400: Future Cities [Silliman]

Professor: Manasvi Menon and Matthew Triebner
Location: WLH 209

This course addresses the forces that shape contemporary urban life to help us understand and contextualize the future of cities. We explore different elements of city life, from resiliency to retail, using case studies from Brooklyn to Barcelona. Analyzing cities through these multiple “probes” provides insights into how a city functions as well as the values, needs, and priorities of the people who inhabit them.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Monday 7:00 PM - 8:50 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives
Environmental Studies

EVST 226: Global Environmental History

Professor: Harvey Weiss
Location: KRN 321
Also listed as: ARCH 324, F&ES 873

The dynamic relationship between environmental and social forces from the Pleistocene glaciations to the Anthropocene present. Pleistocene extinctions; transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture; origins of cities, states, and civilization; adaptations and collapses of Old and New World civilizations in the face of climate disasters; the destruction and reconstruction of the New World by the Old. Focus on issues of adaptation, resilience, and sustainability, including forces that caused long-term societal change.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Fall 2018
Day/Time: TTh 9am-10:15am
Requirement Type:
Surveys

EVST 245: Global Environmental Governance

Professor: Benjamin Cashore
Location: KRN 319
Also listed as: PLSC 146, F&ES 245, & F&ES 829

The development of international environmental policy and the functioning of global environmental governance. Critical evaluation of theoretical claims in the literature and the reasoning of policy makers. Introduction of analytical and theoretical tools used to assess environmental problems. Case studies emphasize climate, forestry, and fisheries.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives

EVST 403: The City in Modern East Asia

Professor: Michael Thornton
Location: SML 218
Also listed as: HIST 369J & EAST 404

Cities in East Asia developed into cosmopolitan urban centers in the modern era. They hosted encounters with Western empires and witnessed the rise of new forms of participatory politics; they not only reflected the broader efforts of their respective nation-states to modernize and industrialize, but also produced violent reactions against state regimes. They served as nodes in networks of migrants, commerce, and culture that grew more extensive in the modern era. In these ways, the history of East Asian urbanism is the history of the fluidity and dynamism of urban society and politics in the context of an increasingly interconnected modern world. We study cosmopolitan cities across East Asia from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. A comparative approach allows us to explore both general trends and themes, and distinct historical experiences across the countries of the region. Specific seminar topics include: urban politics, including state-society relations; cities as sites of geopolitical and imperial encounters; changes in urban society, including the impact of migration and social conflict; the urban environment, including natural and man-made disasters; urban planning, at the local, national and transnational scale; and ways of visualizing the city.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Monday 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives
Forestry & Environmental Studies

EVST 290: Geographic Information Systems

Professor: Charles Tomlin
Location:  WLH 202

A practical introduction to the nature and use of geographic information systems (GIS) in environmental science and management. Applied techniques for the acquisition, creation, storage, management, visualization, animation, transformation, analysis, and synthesis of cartographic data in digital form.

Cross-listed as: F&ES 290

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Charles Tomlin
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: T 9:25am-11:15am
Requirement Type:
Methods

F&ES 755: Modeling Geographic Space

Professor: Charles Tomlin
Location:  BOWERS

An introduction to the conventions and capabilities of image-based (raster) geographic information systems (GIS) for the analysis and synthesis of spatial patterns and processes. In contrast to F&ES 756, the course is oriented more toward the qualities of geographic space itself (e.g., proximity, density, or interspersion) than the discrete objects that may occupy such space (e.g., water bodies, land parcels, or structures). Three hours lecture, problem sets. No previous experience is required.

Course Type: Undergraduate, Course Type: Graduate
Professor:
Charles Tomlin
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: T 1pm-3:50pm
Requirement Type:
Methods

F&ES 959: Clinic in Environmental/Climate Justice, Sustainability, and Public Health

Professor: Robert Dubrow, Laura Bozzi, Marianne Lado
Location:  LEPH 101

In this course, interdisciplinary student teams carry out applied public health research or practice projects in the areas of environmental/climate justice, climate change, sustainability, and public health. Each team works with a sponsoring organization (e.g., unit within Yale, local health department, state agency, community organization, other nongovernmental organization). The course affords the opportunity to apply concepts and competencies learned in the classroom to these important areas. It should be of interest to students across the University, from the Schools of Public Health and Forestry & Environmental Studies to Yale College juniors and seniors. In addition, it is one of the options available to Public Health students to fulfill the practice requirement for the M.P.H. degree.

Cross-listed as: EPH 555

Course Type: Undergraduate, Course Type: Graduate
Professor:
Robert Dubrow, Laura Bozzi, Marianne Lado
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: M 5pm-6:50pm
Requirement Type:
Methods
History

HIST 055: A History of Modern London

Professor: Becky Conekin
Location: WHC B-03

Chronological and thematic exploration of modern London as a metropolitan and imperial center from the late-nineteenth-century to the present day. Topics include race, gay rights, women’s rights, consumer culture, the experience of war, and the development of a multi-racial society. The fashion, food, and popular music of London emerge as important components of the city’s global identity in the twentieth century.

Enrollment limited to first-year students. Preregistration required; see under First-Year Seminar Program.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives

HIST 158J: American Indian Law and Policy

Professor: Ned Blackhawk
Location: LC 203
Also listed as: ER&M 308 & AMST 398

Survey of the origins, history, and legacies of federal Indian law and policy during two hundred years of United States history. The evolution of U.S. constitutional law and political achievements of American Indian communities over the past four decades.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Tuesday 9:25 AM 11:15 AM
Requirement Type:

HIST 168J: Quebec & Canada, 1791-Present

Professor: Jay Gitlin
Location: DC 215

The history of Quebec and its place within Canada from the Constitutional Act of 1791 to the present. Topics include the Rebellion of 1837, confederation, the Riel Affair, industrialization and emigration to New England, French-Canadian nationalism and culture from Abbé Groulx to the Parti Québécois and Céline Dion, and the politics of language. Readings include plays by Michel Tremblay and Antonine Maillet in translation.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: T 3:30pm-5:20pm
Requirement Type:
Electives
History of Science and Medicine

HSHM 211: Global Catastrophe since 1750

Professor: Bill Rankin
Location: WLH 119

A history of the geological, atmospheric, and environmental sciences, with a focus on predictions of global catastrophe. Topics range from headline catastrophes such as global warming, ozone depletion, and nuclear winter to historical debates about the age of the Earth, the nature of fossils, and the management of natural resources. Tensions between science and religion; the role of science in government; environmental economics; the politics of prediction, modeling, and incomplete evidence.

Cross-listed as: EVST 211, G&G 211, HSHM 211. 

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Bill Rankin
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: MW 10:30am-11:20am
Requirement Type:
Surveys

HSHM 422: Cartography, Territory, and Identity

Professor: Bill Rankin
Location: LC 105
Also listed as: HIST 467J

Exploration of how maps shape assumptions about territory, land, sovereignty, and identity. The relationship between scientific cartography and conquest, the geography of statecraft, religious cartographies, encounters between Western and non-Western cultures, and reactions to cartographic objectivity. Students make their own maps.

No previous experience in cartography or graphic design required.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Fall 2019
Day/Time: M 1:30pm-3:20pm
Requirement Type:
Methods
Humanities

HUMS 247: Material Culture and Iconic Consciousness

Professor: Jeffrey Alexander
Location: WALL81 101
Also listed as: SOCY 352 & 620

How and why contemporary societies continue to symbolize sacred and profane meanings, investing these meanings with materiality and shaping them aesthetically. Exploration of “iconic consciousness” in theoretical terms (philosophy, sociology, semiotics) and further exploration of compelling empirical studies about food and bodies, nature, fashion, celebrities, popular culture, art, architecture, branding, and politics.

 
Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Day/Time: Monday 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Requirement Type:

HUMS 444: The City of Rome

Professor: Virginia Jewiss
Location: WALL81 101

An interdisciplinary study of Rome from its legendary origins through its evolving presence at the crossroads of Europe and the world. Exploration of the city’s rich interweaving of history, theology, literature, philosophy, and the arts in significant moments of Roman and world history.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 11:35 AM - 12:50 PM
Requirement Type:
Political Science

PLSC 151: Global Economic Governance in the 21st Century

Professor: Tyler Pratt
Location: RKZ 102
Also listed as: GLBL 285

The modern global economy is characterized by enormous flows of money, goods, and people across national borders. These flows are a frequent source of political contestation between countries. International disputes over trade, finance, and immigration have intensified in recent years, following the 2008 financial crisis, the “Brexit” referendum in the United Kingdom, and the election of US President Donald Trump. This course examines the political processes, rules, and actors that govern international economic exchange.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Monday 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Requirement Type:

PLSC 215: Global Food Challenges: Environmental Politics and Law

Professor: John Wargo
Location: LORIA 250
Also listed as: F&ES 255 & EVST 255

We explore relations among food, environment, health, and law. We consider global-scale avoidable challenges such as: starvation & malnutrition, obesity, other food related human diseases, climate instability, soil loss, water depletion & contamination, microbial hazards, chemical contamination, food waste, dietary convergence, air pollution, energy, packaging, culinary globalization, and biodiversity loss. We focus on laws that influence the world’s food system, including those intended to reduce or prevent environmental and health damages. Other laws protect rights of secrecy, property, speech, confidential business information, free trade, worker protection, equal opportunity, and freedom from discrimination. Ethical concerns of justice, equity, and transparency are prominent themes. Examples of effective law, consumer movements and corporate innovations provide optimism for the future of responsible food.
Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: Monday & Wednesday, 11:35 AM - 12:25 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives
Sociology

SOCY 160: Methods of Inquiry

Professor: Julia Adams
Location: WLH 011

The theory and practice of social inquiry. How social scientists—and aspiring social scientists—actually do their work, including designing research, sampling and measuring, and interpreting results. Examination of thesis proposal writing; ethical quandaries involved in social research.

No background in social research assumed.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Julia Adams
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: TTh 9am-10:15am
Requirement Type:
Methods

SOCY 352: Material Culture and Iconic Consciousness

Professor: Jeffrey Alexander
Location: WLH 011

How and why contemporary societies continue to symbolize sacred and profane meanings, investing these meanings with materiality and shaping them aesthetically. Exploration of “iconic consciousness” in theoretical terms (philosophy, sociology, semiotics) and further exploration of compelling empirical studies about food and bodies, nature, fashion, celebrities, popular culture, art, architecture, branding, and politics.

Cross-listed as: HUMS 247, SOCY 620

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2020
Day/Time: M 3:30pm-5:20pm
Requirement Type:
Electives

SOCY 396: Cities, Suburbs, and School Choice

Professor: Mira Debs
Location: WTS B51
Also listed as: EDST 240

The changing dynamic between cities and suburbs and the role of individuals and institutions in promoting desegregation or perpetuating segregation since the mid-twentieth century. The government’s role in the expansion of suburbs; desegregating schools; the rise of school choice through magnets and charters; the effects of inner-ring suburban desegregation and of urban gentrification on the landscape of education reform.

Recommended preparation: EDST 110. Preference to Education Studies Scholars.

Course Type: Undergraduate
Professor:
Term: Spring 2019
Day/Time: Thursday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Requirement Type:
Electives
Urban Studies

URBN 160: Introduction to Urban Studies

An introduction to key topics, research methods, and practices in urban studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry and action rooted in the experience of cities. As physical artifacts, the advent of large cities have reflected rapid industrialization and advanced capitalism. They are inseparable from the organization of economic life; the flourishing of cultures; and the formation of identities.  They are also places where power is concentrated and inequalities are (re)produced. Debates around equity are filtered through urban environments, where struggles over jobs, housing, education, mobility, public health, and public safety are front and center. Course organized as a colloquium with numerous guests. Accessible entirely online, there will also be live, in-person events, with social distancing and face masks/shields, available to students in New Haven.

Course Type: Undergraduate, Course Type: Graduate
Professor:
Term: Fall 2020
Day/Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 11:35a.m. - 12:50p.m.
Requirement Type:
Surveys