ECON 106 - Urban Policy, Social Justice, and the Environment

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-D1-2
Urban policies and their effects on spatial patterns of employment, homelessness, residential segregation, and environmental quality.

Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-D1-2 - Lower Division Social Sciences
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Summarize the history of residential segregation in the United States;
Identify key policies that sustain racial and class segregation and policies that counteract it;
Identify policies and economic conditions that led to widespread suburbanization both in the United States and globally;
Describe current geographic patterns of employment, income, residential sorting, and housing prices within and between metropolitan areas;
Assess the effects of various urban and land-use policies on housing prices;
Assess the effects of various urban and land-use policies on environmental sustainability.

D1-2. Lower-division Social Science Electives Learning Outcomes

specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven;
explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.