SOAN 266 - Neighborhoods, Culture, and Poverty

FDR: SS3
Planned Offering: Winter 2018 and alternate years
Credits: 3

This course examines social-scientific research on the determinants of poverty, crime, and ill health by focusing on neighborhoods as the sites where many of the mechanisms impacting these outcomes operate. In addition to engaging with key readings and participating in seminar discussions, students conduct their own exploratory analyses of neighborhood level processes using ArcGIS and related software. Eastwood.