Urban Study Requirements
LaGuardia Community College is proud of its unique urban study graduation requirement. It reflects the College’s commitment to the communities it serves and to its students as future leaders of those communities. Urban study courses promote a multi- disciplinary understanding of the urban environment enriched by a hands-on, experiential approach to learning in and through the city.
At least one urban study course must be completed by each degree candidate for graduation. A course taken at an accredited college in New York City that fulfills the criteria for the urban study course and is the equivalent of an existing LaGuardia urban study course may fulfill the urban study requirement. Some urban study courses will be offered each semester. Some urban study courses also fulfill the liberal arts elective requirement. Others fulfill only the unrestricted elective requirement.
Urban study courses:
Focus primarily on aspects of urban life that help students understand the dynamics of cities and related controversies
Explore systematically the resources of New York City in order to reinforce and expand upon course concepts. Students will be required to participate in at least two field trips or hands-on, out-of-classroom research projects
Are scheduled in a mode that promotes using the city as a learning laboratory and that permits follow-through of conceptual material taught in the classroom
Are designated as Writing Intensive courses
Are designated as ePortfolio courses
The following is a list, by department, of urban study courses (any course with a three-letter designation ending in “N” is an Urban Study course; e.g., “XXN”):
Business and Technology
BTN195 Profile and Prospects of Business in New York City BTN211 Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Marketing
Education and Language Acquisition
ELN101 Introduction to Bilingualism
ELN120 Foundations of American Education
ELN194 Puerto Rican Community: Minority Group Experience
English
ENN191 Art, Politics and Protest
ENN/SSN193 Ideal Societies
ENN195 Violence in American Art and Culture ENN198 Creative Writing
ENN240 Literature of the City
Health Sciences:
SCN194 HIV/AIDS, Science & Society
SCN195 Community Health
SCN240 Food and Culture
Humanities
HUN191 Photojournalism: An Introduction
HUN192 Art and Society
HUN195 Art in New York
HUN196 Film and New York City
HUN245 The New York Theatre Experience
Library Media Resources Center
LBN105 InfoCity: Informed Citizens in the Information Age
Natural Science
SCN140 Wild New York
Social Science
SSN103 Introduction to Labor and Community Organizing
SSN/HUN180 Introduction to Intercultural Communication
SSN182 Urban Anthropology
SSN183 History of Minorities
SSN184 Environmental Psychology
SSN186 Sociology of the Black Community
SSN187 Urban Sociology
SSN189 The Urban Economy
SSN190 Leadership
SSN192 Practical Politics in New York City
SSN/ENN193 Ideal Societies
SSN194 Religion and Social Change
SSN202 Environmental Sociology
SSN204 Crime and Justice in Urban Society
SSN210 The Politics of Sexuality
SSN240 History of New York City
SSN280 Urban Black Psychology