SOCIOL 191NYUndergraduate Seminar: Urban and Suburban Sociology in New York City
Sociology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to students in summer UCLA Travel Study Program. Cutting-edge urban issues in country’s largest city, including New York’s attempt to plan for city of 9.2 million, rebuilding of World Trade Center, Robert Moses (New York’s master builder), urban economic development, green New York, transportation systems, urban politics, house and architectural styles, including New York’s famous skyscrapers, historic preservation, crime and police departments, ghetto, education, urban poor, public housing, and search for affordable housing. Offered in summer only.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Summer 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.