URBCHINAM - Urban China Studies Minor

The interdisciplinary minor in Urban China studies helps students understand the diverse drivers and complex consequences of transformative urban development in China from historical, contemporary, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The topics for study include rapid industrialization, massive rural-urban migration, growing regional inequality, challenges to urban planning, accelerated technological innovation, shifting cultural currents, and environmental degradation and sustainability, and China's growing impacts on global urbanization, especially in developing countries. By completing this minor, students can also understand the profound impact of rapid urbanization on China's overall development and rising influence in the global economy and environment and draw comparative lessons for other urbanizing developing countries.