BA in URBAN AND INNER-CITY STUDIES (UIC) (3 Yrs)

Urban and Inner-City Studies is an interdisciplinary Major that examines the city as a dynamic environment. The program combines a traditional urban studies focus with courses that examine various aspects of the inner city, such as the urban Indigenous experience, the immigrant and refugee experience, urban poverty, the housing problem, and the role of women. In Canada, cities continue to be centres of great challenges: from managing suburban growth, to promoting inner-city revitalization; from responding to the opportunities and challenges created by rapidly changing demographics to those created by globalization and socio-economic change. Cities are also home to increased concentrations of poverty, racism, and social and political exclusion. The Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies provides an opportunity to examine the political, economic, social and spatial context of these and many other important aspects of urban change from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies is located on Selkirk Avenue, in Winnipeg’s historic North End. Most classes are offered at 541 Selkirk Avenue, in Merchants Corner. We offer an innovative and intellectually exciting curriculum in a dynamic setting. This is university education, with a difference