What kind of courses do URS students take?
Like many high-quality liberal arts programs, the URS major requires students to develop a broad academic base in the physical and biological sciences, quantitative methods and mathematics, social sciences and history, humanities and the arts, and writing. Building from that important base, the major requires students to complete a series of four introductory courses and encourages them through additional requirements to develop expertise in looking at cities/suburbs, and metropolitan regions through a set of lenses: i.e., theory, social and political dynamics, economics, history, design, land use, the environment, regional and global forces that affect cities and regions, and analysis of potential policy choices through application of quantitative and qualitative methods.