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Columbia's '''Urban Studies''' program is actually housed at [[Barnard]], which may be appropriate, considering its intellectual credentials (or lack thereof).  
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The '''Urban Studies Program''' is, like many of the "softer" majors offered to Columbia students, actually housed at [[Barnard College|Barnard]].
  
 
Students majoring in the subject take most of their classes in other departments, giving the concentration a bit of a patchy, thrown-together air. The department also seems to attract many a [[Speccie]], as they like to play fast and loose with their interests, and typically prefer the urban beat over campus, anyway.  
 
Students majoring in the subject take most of their classes in other departments, giving the concentration a bit of a patchy, thrown-together air. The department also seems to attract many a [[Speccie]], as they like to play fast and loose with their interests, and typically prefer the urban beat over campus, anyway.  
  
Urban Studies aficionados whined and opined when popular professor [[Owen Gutfruend]] was recently denied tenure, but his teaching method demonstrates his, and his department's faults to a T: homework included instructions to "play Sim City" and "explore the internet".  
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Urban Studies aficionados whined and opined when popular professor [[Owen Gutfruend]] was recently denied tenure, but his teaching method bears out his subject's true degree of intellectual rigor: homework included instructions to "play Sim City" and "explore the internet".  
  
Majors finding themselves a bit too unmoored may want to consider a switch to Urban Studies' hardcore cousin, [[Architecture]].
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Majors finding themselves a bit too unmoored may want to consider a switch to Urban Studies' hardcore cousin, [[Architecture (major)|Architecture]].
  
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Latest revision as of 16:01, 24 May 2013

The Urban Studies Program is, like many of the "softer" majors offered to Columbia students, actually housed at Barnard.

Students majoring in the subject take most of their classes in other departments, giving the concentration a bit of a patchy, thrown-together air. The department also seems to attract many a Speccie, as they like to play fast and loose with their interests, and typically prefer the urban beat over campus, anyway.

Urban Studies aficionados whined and opined when popular professor Owen Gutfruend was recently denied tenure, but his teaching method bears out his subject's true degree of intellectual rigor: homework included instructions to "play Sim City" and "explore the internet".

Majors finding themselves a bit too unmoored may want to consider a switch to Urban Studies' hardcore cousin, Architecture.