Courses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.