This course aims to discover, analyze, and report on the history, current project and future of the Poughkeepsie Water Front. There is a strong emphasis on direct community research. Students are involved in traditional classroom work as well as cooperative research projects. Mr. Leonard, Ms. Marzouka. Limited to 5 students.
Topics vary according to instructor.
This seminar is required of all Urban Studies majors. We explore the implications of globalization for understandings of place, work, family, cultural identity, citizenship, the nation, and the state. Ms. Brawley and Mr. Godfrey. Prejudice and racism is one of the most enduring and widespread social problems facing the world today. This course tackles prejudice and racism from a social psychological perspective, and aims to give students an understanding of the theoretical causes, consequences, and 'cures' of this pervasive phenomenon.