INST 301
INST 301 functions as the capstone course for our International Studies Minor. It is offered only in Spring semester. Topics for the course vary from year to year.
This page is intended strictly to provide an expanded course description of this course. For the official schedule, please consult the My.UIC portal.
For a list of all INST courses and general course descriptions, please see the UIC Academic Catalog.
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Global Housing and Home
On campus. W 3:00-5:30
Instructor: Dr. Carrie Breitbach
What is the relationship between the many structures of housing around the world and human experiences of home? How do factors like environmental change and social activism intersect with the forces and values that shape and differentiate human experiences with housing? What kinds of housing have the potential to support and nourish an egalitarian society? In this course, we will examine the creation of housing and lived experiences of home around the world from a historical and geographic perspective. Topics will include: unhoused populations, migration, informal settlements, segregated housing, public and social housing, luxury developments, and historical and current activism around housing justice. Course materials will draw on the interdisciplinary field of housing studies (including geography, urban studies, critical studies of race, gender and sexuality, political science, history and sociology, as well as journalism, art, and film.