Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

244 / URBAN STUDIES
Upper Division Requirements:
24 semester hours in upper division courses,
including:
URBN 345, 455, and 456;
and 15 semester hours in one or more of the following
areas:
1. Law and Justice:
POLS 336 The Judiciary
POLS 471 U.S. Constitutional Law:
Case Method I
POLS 472 U.S. Constitutional Law:
Case Method II
SOCL 322 Deviant Behavior
SOCL 356 Sociology of Law
SOCL 422 Criminal Justice
SOCL 423 Criminal Law
SOCL 424 Crime and Delinquency
2. Urban Politics, Public Administration, and Policy
Analysis:
CHST 337 Racial and Ethnic Politics
CHST 437 Chicana/o Politics
ECON 356 Urban Economics
POLS 340 Public Administration
POLS 341 Race, Class, Culture, and Public
Policy
POLS 345 Urban Politics
POLS 436 Politics of Los Angeles
POLS 440 Public Policy Analysis
SOCL 354 Social Organization
3. Urban Culture:
HIST 367 History of Los Angeles
SOCL 340 Urban Sociology
SOCL 341 Community
SOCL 348 Urban Anthropology
SOCL 349 Research in Urban Society
URBN 365 Metropolitan Los Angeles
4. Urban-Ethnic Communities:
APAM 427 Asian American Psychology
CHST 308 Contemporary Urban Chicana/o
and Other Latina/o Issues
CHST 485 Community Research &
Internship
ECON 371 Economic Development of Minority
Communities
SOCL 334 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCL 335 Sociology of the Black
Community
5. Urban Planning:
ECON 330 Regression Analysis
ECON 334 Business Forecasting
ECON 532 Econometrics
SOCL 342 Demography and Population
Analysis
SOCL 371 Social Ecology
An average grade of C (2.0) must be obtained in the upper
division courses included in the major.
Minor Requirements
18 semester hours, including URBN 125, 135, 345, 455,
and 6 semester hours in upper division courses selected
from one or more of the areas of specialization.
An average grade of C (2.0) must be obtained in the courses
included in the minor.
Urban Studies Model Four-Year
Plan
The normal course load is 15 semester hours (5 classes). By
following the model below, a student will complete all lower
division core requirements by the end of the sophomore
year as well as most major prerequisites. Note that core
areas are suggested to provide a distribution of various
disciplines every semester. Please be flexible implementing
these suggestions, given your own interests and course
availability. In four years, this plan meets all common
graduation requirements.