Electives in Global Urban Humanities
An elective course provides participants an opportunity to round out their study of Global Urban Humanities in a discipline outside of their home division. Elective courses will generally be listed under the following course numbers. These course numbers will not count toward the certificate in all years (depending on the degree of their focus on urban topics), so please research the course offerings of the relevant department on their departmental website and check with the GUH staff and the GUH website for the annually updated list (paying close attention to the course section number and instructor as well as main number). You may petition to count courses not on this list using the Elective Petition form. You must take the elective outside your home division (for the purposes of this requirement, History will be counted as an Arts & Humanities discipline although it is part of the Social Sciences Division). Exceptions may be granted by petition.
All electives require approval by petition. Some electives listed may only qualify depending on topic offered. If you don't see an elective on the list, feel free to suggest additions.
For a list of core courses, please visit the Graduate Certificate Core Course List.
African American Studies 240: Special Topics in Cultural Studies of the Diaspora: Mellon Exhibition Graduate Seminar: Disapora | Migration | Exile
Anthropology 250: Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology C262B: Theories of Traditionality and Modernity
Architecture 209: Special Topics in Architectural Design - Designing for Water
Architecture 209: Special Topics in Architectural Design - Studio One Seminar
Architecture 219: Special Topics in the Social and Cultural Basis of Design: Peace by Design: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Exploring the Use of Design in Peacebuilding
Architecture 239: Special Topics in Architecture Design Theory and Criticism: Architecture and Anthropocene
Architecture 279: Special Topics in the History of Architecture - Public Spaces
Art 163: Social Practice
Chinese 280: Modern Chinese Cultural Studies
Classic 239: Topics in Greek or Roman Literature, History, and Culture
City Planning 241/Landscape Architecture 241: Research Methods in Environmental Design
City Planning 257: Data Science for Human Mobility and Socio-technical Systems
City Planning 284: Urban Theory
City Planning 290: Topics in City and Metropolitan Planning
East Asian Languages and Cultures 204: Topics in East Asian Studies: Visual Cultures of the Long Cold War in Japan and Korea
Ethnic Studies 240: Series in Comparative Transnational Theories and Methods
Ethnic Studies 250: Research Seminar: Selected Issues and Topics
Film 240: Graduate Topics in Film: Image and Power
Film 240.3: Screen Dynamics: A Comparative Perspective (offered in Fall 2020)
French 265: Modern Studies: Precarity and the (Post-)Modern City
Geology 251: Topics in Cultural Geography
German 268: Aspects of Literary and Cultural History
History 100F: Not Beijing, Not Shanghai: Four Capitals in China, Past and Present
History 280U: Politics, Culture and the City at the Dawn of the Modern World
History of Art 186C: Contemporary Art in the Americas
History of Art 290: Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar: Selecting, Exhibiting, and Interpreting "Queer Art"
History of Art 290.1: Comparative Conceptualisms: Latin America/Middle East/North Africa (offered Fall 2020)
Italian 248: Italian Geographies
Italian 248: Imagining Italian America
Landscape Architecture C242: Citizen Involvement in the City Planning Process: Planning and Design for the Inclusive City
Landscape Architecture 241/City Planning 241: Research Methods in Environmental Design
Landscape Architecture 254: The Cultural Turn in Landscape Architecture: Developing a Cultural Practice
Music 220: Sound Reproduction Ecologies
Music 246: Theory and Method in Popular Music Studies
Near Eastern Studies C220: Seminar in Near Eastern Art
Near Eastern Studies 296: Topics in Egyptian Art and Archaeology
New Media 290: Critical Practices: People, Places, Participation
Portuguese 275: Critical and Stylistic Studies of a Single Author or Period
Portuguese 275: "Global Souths" beyond Rio and São Paulo: Brazilian Literature and Film from and about the Amazon and the Northeast
Public Policy 257: Arts and Cultural Policy
Rhetoric 240G: Rhetorical Theory and Criticism: Rhetorical Theory
Rhetoric 243: Special Topics in Film-World Enough and Time
Slavic 246A: Russian Modernism (1890s-1920s)
Sociology 280x: Advanced Study in Substantive Sociological Fields
South and Southeast Asian Studies 250: Seminar in South and Southeast Asian Studies
Spanish 280: Seminar in Spanish American Literature
Theater 201A: Foundations in Performance Theory
Theater 266.2: Social Practice: Aesthetics | Performance | Environment
For a list of core courses, please visit the Graduate Certificate Core Course List.