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Urban Studies and Community Development

Educating future leaders who want to build sustainable relationships between ourselves and our environment. This program explores the history of cities and studies the political, economic and cultural dynamics that continually shape urban life.

About the program

Build the future

With a multidisciplinary and experiential approach, this program’s objective is to nurture ideas and skills highly prized in the workforce.

“I was lucky to have multiple hands-on learning experiences in the program, one of which was with the City of Boise in their planning department. Then in my position at the Boise Bicycle Project, I actually worked with some of those individuals as colleagues.”
– Nina Shaeffer ’19

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Experiential Learning

Experiential learning

Careers in Urban Studies and Community Development

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