Description

Urban and Inner-City Studies

Urban and Inner-City Studies is an interdisciplinary major concerned with the examination of the city, and particularly the inner city, as a dynamic environment. A special feature of this program is that most courses are offered at our North End Campus at Merchants Corner, 541 Selkirk Avenue, in order to provide students with a deeper insight into important urban issues.

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Duration

3 years / 4 years

Starting Date

January, September

Tuition Fee

15,240 CAD per year

Location

Winnipeg, Canada

About the program

The rapid growth of urban poverty, typically associated with racism and inadequate housing and related problems, is an especially important problem in cities in Canada and throughout the world today. Urban and Inner-City Studies is a program that examines such issues especially closely, and will be of particular interest to students with a concern for social justice and positive social change. Our courses focus on such issues as: the urban Indigenous experience, poverty, the law and public policy, community development, the refugee experience, the role of women in the inner city, and urban and community planning.

Cities in Canada continue to face great challenges: managing suburban growth, promoting inner-city revitalization, coping with rapidly changing demographics, and dealing with increasing concentrations of poverty and social and political exclusion. The UIC program examines all these challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This program includes two 2-Year Certificates, both of which can lead to a Bachelor of Arts (3-year, 4- year, or Honours) with a Major in Urban and Inner-City Studies. Students taking an undergraduate degree in another Major may add a Minor in Urban and Inner-City Studies as a secondary area of interest.

Career Possibilities

Graduates can pursue a career in any of the following: city planning; law; government departments dealing with such issues as housing, anti-poverty policies, gender equity, newcomer issues, or community development; or in community-based organizations that are committed to social justice and that work in a wide variety of ways, such as women’s resource centres, community housing organizations, community development agencies, and youth-serving agencies.