Students taking the Minor Program in City Studies should consider selecting most of their Applications program requirements from one area of focus: City Building, Community Development, or City Governance.
Program Requirements
The program requires the completion of 4.0 credits as follows:
1. Foundations (0.5 credit):
CITA01H3/(CITB02H3) Foundations of City Studies
2. Core Courses (1.5 credits from the following):
GGRB05H3 Urban Geography
CITB01H3 Canadian Cities and Planning
CITB03H3 Social Planning and Community Development
CITB04H3 City Politics
CITB08H3 Economy of Cities
3. Applications (2.0 credits at the C- or D-level, from the following):
CITC01H3 Urban Communities and Neighbourhoods Case Study: East Scarborough
CITC03H3 Housing Policy and Planning
CITC04H3 Current Municipal and Planning Policy and Practice in Toronto
CITC07H3 Urban Social Policy
CITC08H3 Cities and Community Development
CITC10H3 Selected Issues in City Studies
CITC12H3 City Structures and City Choices: Local Government, Management, and Policy Making
CITC14H3 Environmental Planning
CITC15H3 Money Matters: How Municipal Finance Shapes the City
CITC16H3 Planning and Governing the Metropolis
CITC17H3 Civic Engagement in Urban Politics
CITC18H3 Urban Transportation Policy Analysis
CITD01H3 City Issues and Strategies
CITD10H3 Seminar in Selected Issues in City Studies
CITD12H3 Planning and Building Public Spaces in Toronto
GGRC10H3 Urbanization and Development
GGRC11H3 Current Topics in Urban Geography
GGRC12H3 Transportation Geography
GGRC13H3 Urban Political Geography
GGRC27H3 Location and Spatial Development
GGRC33H3 The Toronto Region
GGRC40H3 Megacities and Global Urbanization
GGRC43H3 Social Geographies of Street Food
GGRC48H3 Geographies of Urban Poverty
GGRC50H3 Geographies of Education
GGRD14H3 Social Justice and the City
