| General Institute Requirements (GIRs) | Subjects |
| Science Requirement | 6 |
| Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Requirement [four subjects can be satisfied by subjects in the Departmental Program] | 8 |
| Restricted Electives in Science and Technology (REST) Requirement | 2 |
| Laboratory Requirement [can be satisfied by 11.188 in the Departmental Program] | 1 |
| Total GIR Subjects Required for SB Degree | 17 |
| Communication Requirement | |
| The program includes a Communication Requirement
of 4 subjects: 2 subjects designated as Communication Intensive in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CI-H); and 2 subjects designated as Communication Intensive in the Major (CI-M). |
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| PLUS Departmental Program | Units |
| Subject names below are
followed by credit units, and by prerequisites, if any
(corequisites in italics) |
|
| Required Subjects | 69 |
| 11.001J Introduction to Urban Design and Development, 12, HASS-H | |
| 11.002J Making Public Policy, 12, HASS-S, CI-H | |
| 11.011 The Art and Science of Negotiation, 12, HASS-S | |
| 11.123 Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes, 9, HASS-S | |
| 14.01 Principles of Microeconomics, 12, HASS-S | |
| 11.188 Urban Planning and Social Science Laboratory, 12, LAB, CI-M | |
| Planned Electives | 57-60 |
| Course 11 majors are required to formulate or select one stream of coursework for concentration. They can select from the following recommended options or create their own stream tailored to a particular set of urban, policy, or planning concerns. | |
| Environmental Policy 11.003J Methods of Policy Analysis, 12, HASS-S; 11.002J; 14.01 11.016J The Once and Future City, 12, HASS-H, CI-H 11.021J Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control, 12, HASS-S 11.022J Regulation of Chemicals. Radiation, and Biotechnology, 12; permission of instructor 11.161J Energy Decisions, Markets and Policies, 12, HASS-S; 14.01* 11.162 Politics of Energy and the Environment, 12, HASS-S 11.165 Energy and Infrastructure Technologies, 12, HASS-S; 14.01* 11.168 Enabling Energy Efficiency: Practice and Innovation, 12 |
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| Urban History and Society 11.012J The Ancient City, 12, HASS-H 11.013J American Urban History I, 9, HASS-H 11.014J American Urban History II, 9, HASS-H 11.015J Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History, 12, HASS-H†, CI-H 11.019J Migration and Immigration in US History, 12, HASS-S 11.026J Downtown, 9, HASS-H 11.150J Metropolis: A Comparative History of New York City, 12, HASS-H 11.152J The Ghetto: From Venice to Harlem, 12, HASS-S |
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| International Development 11.005 Introduction to International Development, 12, HASS-S 11.025 D-Lab: Development, 12, HASS-S 11.140 Urbanization and Development, 12 11.144 Project Appraisal in Developing Countries, 12 11.147 Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries, 12, HASS-S; permission of instructor 11.164J Human Rights in Theory and Practice, 12, HASS-S; permission of instructor 11.165 Energy and Infrastructure Technologies, 12, HASS-S; 14.01* 11.166 Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy, 12, HASS-S; permission of instructor |
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| Urban Field Experience Declared majors are encouraged to take the optional urban field experience subject. |
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| 11.027 City to City: Comparing, Researching, and Writing about Cities (CI-M) is taught in the spring and includes a trip during spring break. This course may be taken multiple times, as the content differs each year, but may only be counted once as a planned elective. | |
| Thesis Majors are required to write a senior thesis or complete a senior project. The thesis/project writing process is accompanied by a required undergraduate thesis preparation seminar, which meets in the fall. |
24 |
| 11.ThT
Thesis Research Design Seminar, 12, CI-M 11.ThU Undergraduate Thesis Seminar and Thesis, 12; 11.ThT |
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| Departmental Program Units That Also Satisfy the GIRs | (60) |
| Unrestricted Electives | 87-90 |
| Total Units Beyond the GIRs Required for SB Degree | 180 |
| No subject can be counted both as part of the 17-subject GIRs and as part of the 180 units required beyond the GIRs. Every subject in the student's departmental program will count toward one or the other, but not both. | |
| Notes | |
| Course 11 majors are not permitted to have a HASS concentration in Urban Studies. | |
| For an explanation of credit units, or hours, please refer to the online help of the MIT Subject Listing & Schedule, http://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi. | |