This certificate will help equip UGA students and graduates for career paths and/or graduate study in fields impacted by urban and metropolitan processes. These might include urban planning, the non-profit sector, real estate, law, architecture and urban design, business and finance, education, government, medicine and health, as well as arts and design.
Dr. Steven R. Holloway Department of Geography holloway@uga.edu 706-542-4109 https://geography.uga.edu/urban-and-metropolitan-studies
12 hours
Choose 1 course(s) from the following:
| GEOG 3630 | Introduction to Urban Geography | 3 |
| GEOG 3633 | Cities and Nature | 3 |
Choose 1 course(s) from the following:
| GEOG 4630/6630 | Advanced Urban Geography | 3 |
| GEOG 4631/6631 | Race, Inequality, and the American City | 3 |
| GEOG 4632/6632 | Urban Social Movements | 3 |
| GEOG 4633/6633 | Urban Political Ecology | 3 |
| GEOG(INTL)(HIST) 4634 | Paris and Modernity: Power, Politics, and Identity in the City | 3 |
| GEOG 4635/6635 | The City and Film | 3 |
Choose a total of 6 credit hours from the following: - At least one course must be from outside Geography. - No more than one additional course from the GEOG 46XX sequence listed above, and no more than three total GEOG courses. - Upon approval by the Program Director, no more than one course (3 credit thours) of ONE of the following may be used: 4xxx-level discipline-specific independent or directed readings on an urban theme Internship (for credit) with urban-related responsibilities Supervised research (e.g., CURO or Honors Thesis) on an urban theme
Choose 6 credit hour(s) from the following:
| ATSC(GEOG) 4160/6160 | Applied Climatology in the Urban Environment | 3 |
| ECOL 3770S | Urban Ecology - Service Learning | 3 |
| ECON 4160 | Urban Economics | 3 |
| EDES 4270/6270 * | Environmental Design Uses of Geographic Information Systems | 3 |
| EDES 4280E/6280E * | Environmental Design Uses of Geographic Information Systems | 3 |
| EDES 4640/6640 | The History of Urban Planning | 3 |
| EDES(PLAN) 4650/6650 | City Planning | 3 |
| FHCE 3300 | Housing in Contemporary Society | 3 |
| FHCE 4300/6300 | Advanced Housing Theories | 3 |
| FHCE 4310/6310 | Housing Policy | 3 |
| FHCE 4340S/6340S | Housing and Community Development | 3 |
| FHCE 5310/7310 | Affordable Housing Development and Management | 3 |
| GEOG 4380/6380-4380L/6380L | Transportation Modeling and GIS | 3 |
| GEOG 4385/6385-4385L/6385L | Community GIS (Service Learning) | 3 |
| GEOG 4890S/6890S | Athens Urban Food Collective (AUFC) Service-Learning | 3 |
| HIST 3170 | History of American Cities | 3 |
| HIST 3690 | East Asian Cities: Urban Life in Premodern and Modern China and Japan | 3 |
| LAND 4120/6120 | Designing Healthy Places | 3 |
| POLS 4640 | Urban Politics | 3 |
| REAL 4000 | Real Estate | 3 |
| SOCI 3140 | Social Control of Crime | 3 |
| SOCI 3150 | Criminal Punishment and Society | 3 |
| SOCI 3320 | Sociology of Urban Life | 3 |
| SOCI 3810 | Criminology | 3 |
| SOCI 3820 | Communities and Crime | 3 |
* Only one of these courses can be used to fulfill the requirement.
Select additional courses, as needed, in consultation with an advisor to meet the minimum number of required credit hours for this program.