Urban programs & courses at U of T

Master’s programs

Links to urbanism-oriented graduate programs at U of T.

Master of Urban Innovation (MUI) – UTM
Master of Urban Design (MUD) – UTSG
Master of Engineering in Cities Engineering and Management (MEngCEM) – UTSG
Master’s in Planning – UTSG
Graduate Studies in the Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment – UTM
- Concentrations in:
  - Economic Development Planning
  - Environmental Planning
  - Social Planning and Policy
  - Urban Design
  - Urban Planning and Development
  - Transportation Planning and Infrastructure

Undergraduate programs

Links to urbanism-oriented undergraduate programs at U of T.

Undergraduate courses

St. George campus courses

Open section

Course Code	Course Title	Subject	Link
ANT347H1	Metropolis: Global Cities	Anthropology	Link
ARC253H1	Close Readings in Urban Design	Architectural Studies	Link
ARC354H1	History of Housing	Architectural Studies	Link
ARC355H1	History of Urbanism	Architectural Studies	Link
ARC367H1	Selected Topics in Urban Design	Architectural Studies	Link
ARC453H1	Advanced Topics in the History and Theory of Urbanism	Architectural Studies	Link
ARC467H1	Advanced Topics in Urban Design	Architectural Studies	Link
ARC482H1	Advanced Topics in the Technology of Urbanism	Architectural Studies	Link
CAS370H1	Asian Cities	Contemporary Asian Studies	Link
CIV220H1	Urban Engineering Ecology	Civil Engineering	Link
CIV331H1	Transport I – Introduction to Urban Transportation Systems	Civil Engineering	Link
CIV516H1	Public Transit Operations and Planning	Civil Engineering	Link
CIV531H1	Transport Planning	Civil Engineering	Link
CIV536H1	Urban Activity, Air Pollution, and Health	Civil Engineering	Link
CIV550H1	Water Resources Engineering	Civil Engineering	Link
CIV577H1	Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities	Civil Engineering	Link
CME525H1	Tunneling and Urban Excavation	Civil and Mineral Engineering	Link
CRI487H1	Law, Space, and the City	Criminology & Sociolegal Studies	Link
DTS310H1	Transnational Toronto	Diaspora & Transnational Studies	Link
EAS444H1	The City, Body and Text in Modern Japanese Literature	East Asian Studies	Link
ECO333H1	Urban Economics	Economics	Link
ENV307H1	Urban Sustainability	Environmental Studies	Link
ENV421Y1	Community Research for Social & Environmental Change	Environmental Studies	Link
ENV463H1	Edible Campus	Environmental Studies	Link
EMU425H1	Music & Urban Engagement with Youth in Detention	Music	Link
FAH199H1	Architecture of Toronto	Art History	Link
FAH325H1	Urban Islam	Art History	Link
FAH371H1	Architecture and Urbanism in Baroque Europe	Art History	Link
FAH415H1	History of Islamic Cairo	Art History	Link
FOR416H1	Green Urban Infrastructure	Forest Conservation & Forest Biomaterials Science	Link
FOR421H1	Green Urban Infrastructure: Sustainable City Forests	Forestry	Link
GER195H1	Cities, Real and Imagined (E)	German	Link
GGR124H1	Cities and Urban Life	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR217H1	Urban Landscapes and Planning	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR259H1	Urban Growth and Decline	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR336H1	Urban Historical Geography of North America	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR338H1	Social Transformation and Environment in the Majority World	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR339H1	Urban Geography, Planning and Political Processes	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR357H1	Housing and Community Development	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR359H1	Comparative Urban Policy	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR372H1	GIS for Public Health	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR373H1	Advanced Geographic Information Systems	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR376H1	Geovisualization	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR377H1	Introduction to Urban Data Analytics	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR424H1	Transportation Geography and Planning	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR434H1	Building Community Resilience	Geography & Planning	Link
GGR458H1	Selected Topics in Urban Geography: Urban Problems	Geography & Planning	Link
HIS327H1	Rome: The City in History	History	Link
HIS435H1	Themes in Toronto History	History	Link
HMB490Y1	Health in Community	Human Biology	Link
INI100H1	The City Where Movies Are Made	Innis One: The Creative City	Link
INI101H1	Blogging the Just City	Innis One: The Creative City	Link
INI102H1	Telling the Stories of the City: Writing Creative Non-Fiction	Innis One: The Creative City	Link
INI105H1	Nature and the City	Innis One: The Creative City	Link
INI106H1	Writing Literary Journalism: Telling the Stories of the City	Innis One: The Creative City	Link
INS403H1	Indigenous Peoples and the Urban Context	Indigenous Studies	Link
JCI250H1	Italian Canadian Communities	Canadian Studies, Italian Studies	Link
JGU216H1	Globalization and Urban Change	Geography & Planning, Urban Studies	Link
JGU346H1	The Urban Planning Process	Geography & Planning, Urban Studies	Link
JPF455H1	Conceptualizing Cities in a Global Context	Architectural Studies, Political Science	Link
JPF456H1	Global Cities – Core Issues and Challenges	Architectural Studies, Political Science	Link
NEW102H1	Exploring Multilingual Toronto	New One: Learning Without Borders	Link
POL349H1	Global Urban Politics	Political Science	Link
POL454H1	Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in City Regions	Political Science	Link
REN338H1	Renaissance in the City	Renaissance Studies	Link
RSM483H1	Real Estate Markets	Rotman Commerce	Link
SDS345H1	Sex and the Epidemic: Social Work, HIV, and Human Sexuality	Sexual Diversity Studies	Link
SLA318H1	City of Saints and Sinners: Kyiv through the Centuries	Slavic Languages and Literatures	Link
SOC205H1	Urban Sociology	Sociology	Link
SOC317H1	Urban Policy	Sociology	Link
SOC335H1	Urban Health	Sociology	Link
SOC375H1	Sociology of the City	Sociology	Link
UNI101H1	Citizenship in the Canadian City	UC One	Link
UNI102H1	Performing the City	UC One	Link
UNI103H1	Gradients of Health in an Urban Mosaic	UC One	Link
UNI104H1	Sex in the City	UC One	Link
URB234H1	Cities in Popular Culture	Urban Studies	Link
URB235H1	A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies I: Theoretical Foundations of City Building	Urban Studies	Link
URB236H1	A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies II: Urban Challenges and Theoretical Application	Urban Studies	Link
URB333H1	Social Justice in The City	Urban Studies	Link
URB335H1	City Challenges, City Opportunities in a 21st Century Toronto	Urban Studies	Link
URB336H1	Creative Cities	Urban Studies	Link
URB337H1	Housing and Homelessness	Urban Studies	Link
URB342H1	Qualitative Research in Urban Studies	Urban Studies	Link
URB430H1	Advanced Topics in Urban Studies II	Urban Studies	Link
URB431Y1	Special Topics in Urban Studies: Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project	Urban Studies	Link
URB432H1	Special Topics in Urban Studies: Urban Studio: Public Participation in Policy Making	Urban Studies	Link
URB433H1	Special Topics in Urban Studies	Urban Studies	Link
URB435H1	Independent Research in Urban Studies	Urban Studies	Link
URB436H1	Independent Research in Urban Studies	Urban Studies	Link
URB437Y1	Urban Experiential Learning in Toronto & the GTA	Urban Studies	Link
URB439H1	Cities and Mega-events: Place-making, Contestation and Urban Citizenship	Urban Studies	Link

Mississauga campus courses

Open section

Course Code	Course Title	Subject	Link
ENV399Y5 LEC0201	Cold-weather urban pond ecosystem dynamics	Environment	Link
GGR207H5	Cities, Urbanization and Development	Geography	Link
GGR265H5	(Under)development and Health	Geography	Link
GGR349H5	Cities in Transition	Geography	Link
GGR444H5	Space Time Data Analysis	Geography	Link
GGR461H5	Advanced Urban Planning	Geography	Link
POL346Y5	Urban Politics	Political Science	Link
SOC379H5	Criminology, Urban Life, and Social Policy	Sociology	Link
VCC207H5	Urban Sites and Sounds	Visual Studies	Link
VCC338H5	Picturing the Suburbs	Visual Studies	Link

Scarborough campus courses

Open section

Course Code	Course Title	Subject	Link
ANTC18H3	Urban Worlds	Anthropology	Link
CITA01H3	Foundations of City Studies	City Studies	Link
CITB01H3	Canadian Cities and Planning	City Studies	Link
CITB03H3	Social Planning and Community Development	City Studies	Link
CITB04H3	City Politics	City Studies	Link
CITB08H3	Economy of Cities	City Studies	Link
CITC01H3	Urban Communities and Neighbourhoods Case Study: East Scarborough	City Studies	Link
CITC02H3	Placements in Community Development	City Studies	Link
CITC03H3	Housing Policy and Planning	City Studies	Link
CITC04H3	Current Municipal and Planning Policy and Practice in Toronto	City Studies	Link
CITC07H3	Urban Social Policy	City Studies	Link
CITC09H3	Introduction to Planning History: Toronto and Its Region	City Studies	Link
CITC12H3	City Structures and City Choices: Local Government, Management, and Policymaking	City Studies	Link
CITC14H3	Environmental Planning	City Studies	Link
CITC15H3	Money Matters: How Municipal Finance Shapes the City	City Studies	Link
CITC16H3	Planning and Governing the Metropolis	City Studies	Link
CITC17H3	Civic Engagement in Urban Politics	City Studies	Link
CITC18H3	Urban Transportation Policy Analysis	City Studies	Link
CITD01H3	City Issues and Strategies	City Studies	Link
CITD05H3	City Studies Workshop I: The Art of City Building	City Studies	Link
CITD06H3	City Studies Workshop II: Engaging the Public in Policy Making	City Studies	Link
CITD12H3	Planning and Building Public Spaces in Toronto	City Studies	Link
EESC25H3	Urban Climatology	Environmental Science	Link
FSTC05H3	Feeding the City: Food Systems in Historical Perspective	Food Studies	Link
FSTC43H3	Social Geographies of Street Food	Food Studies	Link
GASB74H3	Asian Foods and Global Cities	Global Asia Studies	Link
GGRA03H3	Cities and Environments	Urban Geography	Link
GGRB05H3	Urban Geography	Urban Geography	Link
GGRB13H3	Social Geography	Social/Cultural Geography	Link
GGRC10H3	Urbanization and Development	Urban Geography	Link
GGRC12H3	Transportation Geography	Urban Geography	Link
GGRC13H3	Urban Political Geography	Urban Geography	Link
GGRC32H3	Essential Spatial Analysis	Urban Geography	Link
GGRC34H3	Crowd-sourced Urban Geographies	Urban Geography	Link
GGRD14H3	Social Justice and the City	Urban/Social/Cultural Geography	Link
HLTC27H3	Community Health and Epidemiology	Health & Society	Link
SOCC27H3	Sociology of Suburbs and Suburbanization	Sociology	Link
SOCD21H3	Immigrant Scarborough	Sociology	Link
SOCD51H3	Capstone Seminar in Culture, Creativity, and Cities	Sociology	Link

Master’s programs

Undergraduate programs

Undergraduate courses

St. George campus courses

Mississauga campus courses

Scarborough campus courses

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