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Aug 31, 2024
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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: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous. 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;
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explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
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discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
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explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.
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