GLS 110 - Introduction to Cities and Global Society

1. Identify worldwide urban beginnings, classifications, and evolutions.
2. Trace patterns of urban culture and social relations.
3. Interpret urban residential patterns and spatial narratives.
4. Analyze and propose urban solutions that address specific local and global problems.

1. Exploring the City
   1. Explaining the city: sociological, anthropological, and other disciplinary perspectives
   2. Urban histories
   3. Understanding community
   4. International and local examples used
2. City Form and City Culture
   1. Economic and residential patterns
   2. Environmental social psychology
   3. Image and style
   4. Cultural narratives of place
   5. International and local examples used
3. Urban Diversity
   1. Racial/ethnic/gender/sexuality, and other categories of difference
   2. Stratification in the city
   3. Order, control, and deviance
   4. Politics and power relations
   5. International and local examples used
4. Urban and Global Dilemmas and Possible Solution
   1. The political economy of globalization and urbanization
   2. Fiscal and international problems
   3. Social problems: housing, transportation, pollution, water, etc.
   4. Global cities of the future
   5. International and local examples used