For a list of current and upcoming courses, please visit the Undergraduate Certificate Core Course List and the Elective Course List.
Spring 2020
East Bay Revolution: Urban Spaces of Protest and Counterculture Practice
AMERSTD 102/ENVDES 109
Taught by:
Greg Castillo (Architecture)
Scott Saul (English)
This course delves into the history of the East Bay in the 1960s and 1970s, with particular attention to the emergence of countercultural and social-movement communities. In this project-oriented course, students will work in teams as they reconstruct and analyze particular sites of protest and culture-making across the East Bay, from Berkeley to Emeryville and Oakland. More
Spring 2019
Peoples and Places: Memory of Cityscapes
ENGLISH 198
Student-led DeCal Course
Organized by Menat El Attma
Since the camera’s invention in 1816, photographs have become vital to memory and historical explanation. By the faculty of a camera alone, one may now see history as well as read it. It is because of the interlacing process between captured image and moving history that the question of memory has become particularly salient, for in a world where “seeing is believing”, photographs furnish the evidence desired when doubts persist...more
New Orleans: Historical Memory and Urban Design
LA 154 + 199/AMERSTD 102
Taught by:
Anna Brand (Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning)
Bryan Wagner (English)
How can a city's past become a meaningful platform for its future? How can city planners and community organizations work to answer this question in historic neighborhoods destabilized by envrionmental catastrophe, gentrification, multi-scaled development and the privatization of schools and social services? ... more
Fall 2018
The City and Its People (Colloquium)
RHET 198-3/ARCH 198-2
This interdisciplinary colloquium engages questions about the humans who inhabit urban spaces...more
Spring 2018
Siteworks: Understanding Place through Design and Performance
LA 154/Theater 114
Taught by:
Ghigo DiTomasso (Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning)
Erika Chong Shuch (Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies)
Susan Moffat (City and Regional Planning, Global Urban Humanities Initiative)
This year, the Research Studio will focus on the Albany Bulb, a construction debris landfill in San Francisco Bay known for its informal art, spectacular views, and for many years, a longstanding homeless community. What will the Bulb become? ... more
For a list of current and upcoming courses, please visit the Undergraduate Certificate Core Course List and the Elective Course List.