To identify demographic patterns and the implications of these patterns for community decision-making. To identify major urban problems, and identify how urban institutions attempt to resolve these problems. This course will consist of lectures by the instructor, supplemented by guest lectures, films, and class discussion. Students are expected to complete all readings assigned for each topic before the class session is held. Occasionally, there will be handouts in class.
Students are responsible for all assigned readings, films, and videos.
There are 5 required assignments. Include information on your family's ethnicity or nationality, where you and your family were born, and when, why, and how they came to Cleveland, what family members do for a living, and what they hope for in the future. This is worth 15 percent of the final course grade. To be presented orally in class - Each student will conduct research into an urban problem. It will be necessary for the student to explain what the problem is, how and why it is an urban problem , and give an argument as to how you would propose to solve the problem.