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

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
Urban policies and their effects on spatial patterns of employment, homelessness, residential segregation, and environmental quality.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
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.

GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes

Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.