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Sep 27, 2024
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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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COMM 349 - Cities and Architecture 3 s.h. This course intends to understand and analyze the relationship between the nature and development of cities and functionalities, meanings, and symbolic power of architecture from a cross-disciplinary approach. Other than general introduction to the concepts and theories in the disciplines, selected cities will be compared. A city will be chosen as a case study each term. An intensive and exciting trip to a city may be required. This course will use interdisciplinary approaches to understand the formation of a city and the functionality and symbolic meanings of the architecture that builds a city. Theories are drawn from multi-disciplines such as geography, anthropology, communication and media, history, and sociology. This course can be repeated once. Offered Irregularly. LA Cross-Listed as: ANTH 349 . Prerequisite(s): 6 s.h. from ALS, ANTH, COMM, ECON, FAMS, GEOG, HIST, AHIS, EHIS, WHIS, POLS, PSYC, SOC, or WMST.
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