Schedule
Mon, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM (1/22/2025 - 5/16/2025) Location: MAIN 3 426
Wed, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM (1/22/2025 - 5/16/2025) Location: VIR VIR VIR
Description
PREREQUISITE: English Comp I
Students enrolled in this course will examine problems of urban economics, such as poverty, discrimination, housing, education, health, transportation, and crime, using Boston (especially the Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods) as a case study. Additional topics include a brief overview of urban location theory and an examination of conservative, liberal, radical, and Black Nationalist economic theories in relation to the identification and solution of economic problems. The issues and problems of specific topics such as housing will be explored in class.