School of Liberal Arts: Urban Studies
2008-2009 Academic Year
536
Students will learn the tools, techniques, and datasets geographers employ to
investigate questions pertaining to the shape, form, origins, transformative
processes, and interaction of the natural and built environments; how and why
phenomena are distributed spatially and through time; the concept and perception
of "place" and how we distinguish places from one another; and how present-day
cityscapes reflect these concerns. Lectures will focus on New Orleans but be
comparative and students will be required to apply these approaches to other cities
and towns.
URST 330 Urban Design Processes and Graphic Communication (3)
Urban Design Processes and Graphic Communication is intended to provide
immersion into the mind of the designer via lectures, readings, discussion and
short lab based projects. The course is based on the premises that design is the
organizing and conceiving of place, information and things; and that access to,
and the manipulation of, graphic forms of information is an important precursor
of the production of knowledge. For this reason the course is structured around
key elements of the design process: 1) posing the question(s), 2) gathering
information, 3) analysis and manipulation of information, 4) proposal, and 5)
representation.
URST 301 Selected Topics in Urban Studies (3)
Special topics course, content varies by semester.
URST 601 Advanced Topics in Urban Studies (3)
Advanced level special topics course, content varies by semester.