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GCLR Seminar: Urban Experiential Learning: Concepts and Pedagogical Methods

6206C Phelps Phelps Hall, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

This seminar will focus on the concepts, pedagogical designs, and possible experiential outcomes for urban studies courses. We will draw on a summer course titled “Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies,” which Prof. Quayson has taught in Accra for Stanford students for the past three years. The central principle underpinning the course is the ways in which any given city might be used to generate a toolkit of concepts and methods for understanding other cities, ...