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Courses on the American West
Each year, Stanford University offers dozens of courses related to the study of the North American West across a wide range of departments and programs. In addition to offering classes like our interdisciplinary spring quarter course The American West, and a number of courses on local government, The Bill Lane Center for the American West curates a listing of courses related to the American West.
Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location
AMSTUD 68N
Preference to freshmen. Mark Twain defined the rhythms of our prose and the contours of our moral map. He recognized our extravagant promise and stunning failures, our comic foibles and tragic flaws. He is viewed as the most American of American...
Fishkin, S. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
AMSTUD 124A
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North...
2024 - 2025
Spring
AMSTUD 124A
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North...
Kennedy, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 150X
This class will examine the history of San Francisco from Native American and colonial settlement through the present. Focus is on social, environmental, and political history, with the theme of power in the city. Topics include Native Americans, the...
2024 - 2025
Spring
AMSTUD 163
Through case studies with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, guest speakers, selective readings and interactive assignments, this survey course seeks to demystify the concept of land use for the non-city planner. This introductory course will...
Rich, D. (PI)
von Borck, J. (PI)
von Borck, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
AMSTUD 186D
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Kwon, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
AMSTUD 186D
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Hobbs, C. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Thursday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM
AMSTUD 186D
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Hobbs, C. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Thursday
1:30 PM
2:20 PM
AMSTUD 186D
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Arellano Vences, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:20 PM
AMSTUD 186D
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Arellano Vences, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Wednesday
2:30 PM
3:20 PM
ARTHIST 152
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North...
Kennedy, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
ARTHIST 186B
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Kwon, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
ARTHIST 186B
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Hobbs, C. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Thursday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM
ARTHIST 186B
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Hobbs, C. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Thursday
1:30 PM
2:20 PM
ARTHIST 186B
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Arellano Vences, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:20 PM
ARTHIST 186B
This lecture course explores the work of artists and makers of Asian descent from 1850-present. Rather than a discrete identity category, we approach 'Asian American' as an expansive, relational term that encompasses heterogenous experiences of...
Arellano Vences, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Wednesday
2:30 PM
3:20 PM
CEE 1
Field trips visiting environmental systems installations in Northern California, including coastal, freshwater, and urban infrastructure. Requirements: Several campus meetings, and field trips. Enrollment limited; priority given to undergraduates who...
Hildemann, L. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM
CEE 126Y
Environmental disasters are striking with alarming frequency. Many, including wildfires and ecosystem collapse, are hitting California. The winter 2019 Hard Earth series will feature biweekly talks by Stanford graduate students whose research probes...
2024 - 2025
Winter
CEE 136
Cities and urban areas have always been transformed by major external changes like pandemics and public health crises. California is both in the midst of its greatest economic recession since the Great Depression and experiencing a pandemic that has...
2024 - 2025
Winter
CEE 141A
This course offers an overview of the development phase of large private and public infrastructure projects. Students will gain an understanding of the critical steps involved in bringing a project from early concept to a delivery phase including...
Khoshkbari, P. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Monday
4:30 PM
6:20 PM
CEE 173
This course explores both quantitatively and qualitatively - technical, economic, institutional, social, policy, and legal aspects of urban water. The course will include lectures and discussions covering the following themes (1) history of urban...
2024 - 2025
Spring
CEE 175A
This interdisciplinary course integrates the legal, scientific, and policy dimensions of how we characterize and manage resource use and allocation along the California coast. We will use this geographic setting as the vehicle for exploring more...
2024 - 2025
Spring
CEE 214
The next wave of technological innovation and globalization will affect our countries, our societies, and ourselves. This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to emerging, frontier technologies. Topics covered include artificial...
Fischer, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Monday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
CEE 236
Cities and urban areas have always been transformed by major external changes like pandemics and public health crises. California is both in the midst of its greatest economic recession since the Great Depression and experiencing a pandemic that has...
2024 - 2025
Winter
CEE 246B
Introduction to the Real Estate Development Process from conception, feasibility analysis, due diligence, entitlements, planning, financing, market analysis, contract negotiation, construction, marketing, asset management and disposition. Pro-forma...
Koen, N. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
6:30 PM
7:50 PM
CEE 248
This course will offer students an introduction to Real Estate Development. Senior Principals from Sares Regis, a regional commercial and residential real estate development company, will cover topics on all aspects of the development process. Guest...
Birdwell, J. (PI)
Kam, A. (TA)
Kam, A. (TA)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Thursday
4:30 PM
6:20 PM
CEE 263G
This seminar provides an in-depth analysis of the role of California state agencies and Western energy organizations in driving energy policy development, technology innovation, and market structures, in California, the West and internationally. The...
Benson, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Marcus, F. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Marcus, F. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:20 AM
CEE 265F
Adaptation to climate change will not only require new infrastructure and policies, but it will also challenge our local, state and national governments to collaborate across jurisdictional lines in ways that include many different types of private...
Fong, D. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Monday Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:50 AM
COMPLIT 348
A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome, crossed, and cursed; motivates bodies to climb over walls; and threatens physical harm. This graduate seminar places into comparative dialogue a variety of perspectives from...
Saldivar, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Monday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM
EARTHSYS 46N
Preference to freshmen. Field trips to sites in the Elkhorn Slough, a small agriculturally impacted estuary that opens into Monterey Bay, a model ecosystem for understanding the complexity of estuaries, and one of California's last remaining coastal...
Francis, C. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
EARTHSYS 104
The Central Valley of California provides a third of the produce grown in the U.S., but recent droughts and increasing demand have raised concerns about both food and water security. The pathway that water takes from rainfall to the irrigation of...
2024 - 2025
Spring
EARTHSYS 104
The Central Valley of California provides a third of the produce grown in the U.S., but recent droughts and increasing demand have raised concerns about both food and water security. The pathway that water takes from rainfall to the irrigation of...
2024 - 2025
Spring
EARTHSYS 131
Interactive, seminar-style sessions expose students to diverse career pathways in sustainability. Professionals from a variety of careers discuss their work, their career development and decision-points in their career pathways, as well as life style...
Saltzman, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:20 PM
EARTHSYS 131
Interactive, seminar-style sessions expose students to diverse career pathways in sustainability. Professionals from a variety of careers discuss their work, their career development and decision-points in their career pathways, as well as life style...
Bangert, F. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Friday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM
EARTHSYS 160
Community-engaged learning course that exposes students to sustainability concepts and urban planning as a tool for determining sustainable outcomes in the Bay Area. The focus will be on land use and transportation planning to housing and employment...
Kos, R. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Monday
9:30 AM
11:20 AM
EARTHSYS 168
Through case studies with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, guest speakers, selective readings and interactive assignments, this survey course seeks to demystify the concept of land use for the non-city planner. This introductory course will...
Rich, D. (PI)
von Borck, J. (PI)
von Borck, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
EDUC 340
Western medicine's definition of health as the absence of sickness, disease, or pathology; Native American cultures' definition of health as the beauty of physical, spiritual, emotional, and social things, and sickness as something out of balance...
LaFromboise, T. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM
ENGLISH 68N
Preference to freshmen. Mark Twain defined the rhythms of our prose and the contours of our moral map. He recognized our extravagant promise and stunning failures, our comic foibles and tragic flaws. He is viewed as the most American of American...
Fishkin, S. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
ENGLISH 93Q
From Whitman to Kerouac, Alec Soth to Georgia O'Keeffe, the lure of travel has inspired many American artists to pack up their bags and hit the open road. In this course we will be exploring the art and literature of the great American road trip. We...
Carlson-Wee, K. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
ENGLISH 124
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North...
Kennedy, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
ESS 118Y
(Formerly GEOLSCI 118Y and 218Y) The complex urban problems affecting quality of life in the Bay Area, from housing affordability and transportation congestion to economic vitality and social justice, are already perceived by many to be intractable...
2024 - 2025
Winter
ESS 218Y
(Formerly GEOLSCI 118Y and 218Y) The complex urban problems affecting quality of life in the Bay Area, from housing affordability and transportation congestion to economic vitality and social justice, are already perceived by many to be intractable...
2024 - 2025
Winter
GEOPHYS 90
Is the "Big One" overdue in California? What kind of damage would that cause? What can we do to reduce the impact of such hazards in urban environments? Does "fracking" cause earthquakes and are we at risk? Is the United States vulnerable to a giant...
Segall, P. (PI)
Ruiz, M. (TA)
Ruiz, M. (TA)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Monday Wednesday Friday
10:30 AM
11:20 AM
HISTORY 73
(History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the...
2024 - 2025
Autumn
HISTORY 73
(History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the...
Minian Andjel, A. (PI)
Panuco-Mercado, G. (TA)
Panuco-Mercado, G. (TA)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
HISTORY 151
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North...
2024 - 2025
Spring
HISTORY 151
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North...
Kennedy, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
HISTORY 173
(History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the...
Minian Andjel, A. (PI)
Panuco-Mercado, G. (TA)
Panuco-Mercado, G. (TA)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
HISTORY 173
(History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the...
Panuco-Mercado, G. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Thursday
4:30 PM
5:20 PM
HISTORY 173
(History 73 is 3 units; History 173 is 5 units.) This course is an introduction to the history of Mexican migration to the United States. Barraged with anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for bigger walls and more restrictive laws, few people in the...
Panuco-Mercado, G. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Friday
9:30 AM
10:20 AM
ILAC 348
A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome, crossed, and cursed; motivates bodies to climb over walls; and threatens physical harm. This graduate seminar places into comparative dialogue a variety of perspectives from...
Saldivar, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Monday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM
LAW 7051
Local governments exert tremendous influence over socioeconomics, race relations, environmental health, political power, and housing and real estate. This public law course will investigate the law of these governments (including cities, counties...
Anderson, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Tuesday Thursday
11:10 AM
12:40 PM
MED 159
Required for students participating in the Community Health in Oaxaca summer program. Introduction to the health literacy and health-seeking behaviors of Oaxacan and other Mexican migrants; the health challenges these groups face. Through discussion...
2024 - 2025
Spring
NATIVEAM 115
This course incorporates a Native American perspective in the assigned readings and is an introduction to Native American History from contact with Europeans to the present. History, from a Western perspective, is secular and objectively evaluative...
Red Shirt, D. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
NATIVEAM 240
Western medicine's definition of health as the absence of sickness, disease, or pathology; Native American cultures' definition of health as the beauty of physical, spiritual, emotional, and social things, and sickness as something out of balance...
2024 - 2025
Spring
POLECON 680
This course provides an introduction to political economy with an emphasis on formal models of collective choice, public institutions, and political competition. Topics considered include voting theory, social choice, institutional equilibria, agenda...
Callander, S. (PI)
Long, M. (GP)
Long, M. (GP)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Monday Thursday
3:30 PM
4:50 PM
POLISCI 73
This seminar provides an in-depth analysis of the role of California state agencies and Western energy organizations in driving energy policy development, technology innovation, and market structures, in California, the West and internationally. The...
Benson, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Marcus, F. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Marcus, F. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:20 AM
POLISCI 74B
How do I translate my interests and skills into a career in public service and social impact? This course will introduce you to a wide range of roles that help shape public policy and civic life, including government, education, nonprofits, social...
Flores, E. (TA)
Weisler, T. (PI)
Sims, J. (PI)
Weisler, T. (PI)
Sims, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Tuesday
4:30 PM
5:30 PM
POLISCI 74B
How do I translate my interests and skills into a career in public service and social impact? This course will introduce you to a wide range of roles that help shape public policy and civic life, including government, education, nonprofits, social...
Flores, E. (TA)
Weisler, T. (PI)
Sims, J. (PI)
Weisler, T. (PI)
Sims, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Tuesday
4:30 PM
5:30 PM
POLISCI 124A
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North...
2024 - 2025
Spring
POLISCI 124A
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North...
Kennedy, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
Fishkin, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Freyberg, D. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
PUBLPOL 73
This seminar provides an in-depth analysis of the role of California state agencies and Western energy organizations in driving energy policy development, technology innovation, and market structures, in California, the West and internationally. The...
Benson, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
2020 - 2021
Spring
Wednesday
10:00 AM
11:20 AM
PUBLPOL 73
This seminar provides an in-depth analysis of the role of California state agencies and Western energy organizations in driving energy policy development, technology innovation, and market structures, in California, the West and internationally. The...
Benson, S. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Marcus, F. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Marcus, F. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:20 AM
PUBLPOL 101
American democracy faces a series of unprecedented challenges. This course will identify the greatest areas of weakness in the American political system, make sense of the most pressing threats facing democracy, and contemplate how democracy can be...
2024 - 2025
Spring
PUBLPOL 101
American democracy faces a series of unprecedented challenges. This course will identify the greatest areas of weakness in the American political system, make sense of the most pressing threats facing democracy, and contemplate how democracy can be...
Bonica, A. (PI)
Jefferson, H. (PI)
Jefferson, H. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
PUBLPOL 108H
This course will divided into three sections that when combined provide 1) the overall narrative of the precedents and adverse impacts of the worldwide, US west coast and California housing crises and the frameworks for California to create a...
LeSar, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
PUBLPOL 115
Qualified Public Policy students obtain employment in a relevant research or industrial activity to enhance their professional experience consistent with their degree programs. Prior to enrolling students must get internship approved by the Public...
2024 - 2025
Spring
PUBLPOL 116
Prerequisite: Must be a junior, senior, or graduate student. Public Policy Masters students sign up for PUBLPOL 216. The course contains four main parts: Climate Science, Climate Market Mechanisms, Commercial Decarbonization Models; Identification of...
Nation, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Wednesday
6:00 PM
8:50 PM
PUBLPOL 135
Dynamics of regional leadership and decision making in Silicon Valley, a complex region composed of 40 cities and four counties without any overarching framework for governance. Formal and informal institutions shaping outcomes in the region. Case...
Hancock, R. (PI)
Benest, F. (PI)
Benest, F. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Wednesday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM
PUBLPOL 154
State politics and policy making, including the roles of the legislature, legislative leadership, governor, special interests, campaign finance, advocacy groups, ballot initiatives, state and federal laws, media, and research organizations. Case...
Nation, J. (PI)
Crane, D. (PI)
Crane, D. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Tuesday Thursday
8:30 AM
10:20 AM
PUBLPOL 163
Through case studies with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, guest speakers, selective readings and interactive assignments, this survey course seeks to demystify the concept of land use for the non-city planner. This introductory course will...
Rich, D. (PI)
von Borck, J. (PI)
von Borck, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
PUBLPOL 174
Applies the principles of economic analysis to historical and contemporary urban and regional development issues and policies. Explores themes of urban economic geography, location decision-making by firms and individuals, urban land and housing...
Wolfe, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
PUBLPOL 218Z
(Formerly GEOLSCI 118Z and 218Z) Students are placed in small interdisciplinary teams (engineers and non-engineers, undergraduate and graduate level) to work on complex design, engineering, and policy problems presented by external partners in a real...
2024 - 2025
Spring
PUBLPOL 265F
Adaptation to climate change will not only require new infrastructure and policies, but it will also challenge our local, state and national governments to collaborate across jurisdictional lines in ways that include many different types of private...
2024 - 2025
Spring
PUBLPOL 308
Policymakers in the United States, whether elected or unelected, operate in a governmental system where politics pervades nearly every element of their daily activity. This course provides students with both the theory and real-world examples they...
Chen, L. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
Cain, B. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
PUBLPOL 315
Qualified Public Policy students obtain employment in a relevant research or industrial activity to enhance their professional experience consistent with their degree programs. Prior to enrolling students must get internship approved by the Public...
2024 - 2025
Spring
PUBLPOL 315
Qualified Public Policy students obtain employment in a relevant research or industrial activity to enhance their professional experience consistent with their degree programs. Prior to enrolling students must get internship approved by the Public...
2024 - 2025
Winter
URBANST 103C
This course provides an introduction to American Housing practices, spanning from the Industrial Age to the present. Students will examine a range of projects that have aspired to a range of social, economic and/or environmental visions. While...
2024 - 2025
Autumn
URBANST 103C
This course provides an introduction to American Housing practices, spanning from the Industrial Age to the present. Students will examine a range of projects that have aspired to a range of social, economic and/or environmental visions. While...
Choe, B. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Friday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM
URBANST 108H
This course will divided into three sections that when combined provide 1) the overall narrative of the precedents and adverse impacts of the worldwide, US west coast and California housing crises and the frameworks for California to create a...
LeSar, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
URBANST 110
Today, for the first time in history, a majority of people live in cities. By 2050, cities will hold two-thirds of the world's population. This transformation touches everyone, and raises critical questions. What draws people to live in cities? How...
Kahan, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
URBANST 113
Comparative studies in neighborhood conservation, inner city regeneration, and growth policies for metropolitan regions. Lect-disc and research focusing on case studies from North America and abroad, team urban design projects. Two Saturday class...
Glanz, D. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
2:50 PM
URBANST 126A
This course explores ethical questions that arise in public service work, as well as leadership theory and skills relevant to public service work. Through readings, discussions, in-class activities, assignments, and guest lectures, students will...
Lobo, K. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM
URBANST 148
An intensive one-week hands-on introductory seminar designed to allow students to understand and interact with all aspects of the real estate investment process, including property development, local government interplay, value creation, [deal...
Thielke, C. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM
URBANST 163
Through case studies with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, guest speakers, selective readings and interactive assignments, this survey course seeks to demystify the concept of land use for the non-city planner. This introductory course will...
Rich, D. (PI)
von Borck, J. (PI)
von Borck, J. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
URBANST 164
Community-engaged learning course that exposes students to sustainability concepts and urban planning as a tool for determining sustainable outcomes in the Bay Area. The focus will be on land use and transportation planning to housing and employment...
Kos, R. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
Monday
9:30 AM
11:20 AM
URBANST 173
Applies the principles of economic analysis to historical and contemporary urban and regional development issues and policies. Explores themes of urban economic geography, location decision-making by firms and individuals, urban land and housing...
Wolfe, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM
URBANST 183
This new class offers an exciting variation on the 'individual project' studio format. Students work as a team to propose a single consensus solution to a real-world design challenge. This collaborative studio experience more closely reflects the...
2024 - 2025
Spring
URBANST 194
For Urban Studies majors only. Students organize an internship in an office of a government agency, a community organization, or a private firm directly relevant to the major. Reading supplements internship. Paper summarizes internship experience and...
Kahan, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
URBANST 194
For Urban Studies majors only. Students organize an internship in an office of a government agency, a community organization, or a private firm directly relevant to the major. Reading supplements internship. Paper summarizes internship experience and...
Kahan, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
URBANST 194
For Urban Studies majors only. Students organize an internship in an office of a government agency, a community organization, or a private firm directly relevant to the major. Reading supplements internship. Paper summarizes internship experience and...
Kahan, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring
URBANST 201A
Restricted to Urban Studies majors. Students work at least 80 hours with a supervisor, establish learning goals, and create products demonstrating progress. Reflection on service and integration of internship with senior research plans. Must be...
Kahan, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Autumn
URBANST 201A
Restricted to Urban Studies majors. Students work at least 80 hours with a supervisor, establish learning goals, and create products demonstrating progress. Reflection on service and integration of internship with senior research plans. Must be...
Kahan, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Winter
URBANST 201A
Restricted to Urban Studies majors. Students work at least 80 hours with a supervisor, establish learning goals, and create products demonstrating progress. Reflection on service and integration of internship with senior research plans. Must be...
Kahan, M. (PI)
2024 - 2025
Spring