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2023-2024 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

BLS 314 - History of Urban America

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: Course not open to Freshmen
Examines the history of the American city - its people, its culture, and its politics. The course examines why cities look the way they do, and why cities are disproportionately poor and minority, while suburbs are not. Students consider such questions as: Are cities are in crisis? Can - and should - they be saved? The course looks at why cities are the way they are, and whether they still matter in an increasingly suburban nation. The course will also consider how these larger issues apply to nearby cities, such as New Bedford, Fall River, and Providence. Cross-listed as PST 369. Cross-listed with HST 314, HST 514, POL 369
Graded