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             Courses

While there isn’t an urban studies program at UVic,you can certainly do a degree with an urban focus. Here are some urbanist courses that have been offered in past:watch for 2012/2013 listings when the new calendar comes out.

 

GEOG 340:Geography of the City
GEOG 343:Planning and Urban Development
ECON 312:Urban Land Economics
POLI 332:Urban Politics
POLI 401 (Special Topics):Seeing Like a City
ADMN 423:Local Government in B.C.
ADMN 446:Local Government Land Use Planning
ADMN 452:Local Government Law

Also consider courses and special topics courses with an “urban”component in calendar descriptions,such as:

HIST 358G:Race and Ethnicity in Canada Since 1900
HIST 468 (Special Topics):Global Environmental History Since 1500
ECON 325:Public Economics
RS 302:Ways of Understanding Religion
ES 301:Political Ecology
PSYC 350:Environmental Psychology
ENGL 380:Victorian Fiction:Dickens to Eliot
ENGL 449 (Special Topics):Four Gay Poets