City and Civilization

Catalog description

This course provides an in-depth chronological look at a single city, covering its social, symbolic, functional, industrial and biotechnical domains as generators of architecture, monuments and urban planning, with an emphasis on cultural, historical and demographic contexts. It is a SPAC course, and also an Urban Studies course, cross-listed with UST 375. The focus city will shift; ART375 can be taken for credit three times with differing foci. Core Curriculum Category: Speaking Across Curriculum