Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies:
I decided to major in Urban Studies because it involves everything that I am interested in: art, social justice, history, education, people and CITIES!

What I like best about Urban Studies: The advisors and counselors.

Favorite book (and why): I have way too many favorite books. Among my top ten are Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon and The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. Their writing is precise and pretty much, illuminating.

Other academic interests (majors, minors): Minor in Film and Media Studies

Something else you should know about me: I love old-school movie houses.

Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies:
Our future lies in density!

What I like best about Urban Studies: The strong community of a small but ambitious program, excellent advising, a comprehensive core, and the undying commitment to social change.

Favorite class / professor (and why): The Archeology of Modern Urbanism / Barb Voss exposed me to a completely new way of understanding the city through material culture. Barb is also an inspiring and dedicated teacher.

Favorite book (and why): Calvino’s Invisible Cities because it expresses so well the symbolic nature of the city.

Career goal / Future plans: Historic preservation, inner-city economic development, immigrant and labor rights advocacy, municipal government, or maybe something else entirely.

Other academic interests (majors, minors): languages, Russian literature

Extracurriculars: Undergraduate Senate, Habla ESL tutoring, promoting student arts

Something else you should know about me: Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. (Whitman)

Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies:
I always had a love for education when I was in high school. I myself grew up in an urban area, so I want to be able to give back to my community and maybe serve communities like mine.

What I like best about Urban Studies: What I like best is that majoring in Urban Studies allows me the freedom of taking classes that focus around education while creating a foundation built upon the understanding of social inequalities and design of urban areas. I believe that understanding the relationship between these three components will help me be a better educator in the future.

Career goal / Future plans: I would love to go into educational administration or to work at the California/ U.S. Department of Education.

Other academic interests (majors, minors): I am also getting my minor in African and African American Studies.

Extracurriculars: I am a tutor with Ravenswood Reads and a member of Sigma Theta Psi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.

Something else you should know about me: For the past three summers I have been working at my High School District Office in the Human Resources department as well as the Business Services Department. I also love super hero movies.

What I like best about Urban Studies: The disciplinary breadth!!

Favorite class / professor (and why): URBANST 133: Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory… because Social-E’s the wave of the future!

Favorite book (and why): ‘The Starfish and The Spider’ by Braffman and Beckstrom. It’s about the power of ‘leaderless’ organizations – again, the wave of the future!

Career goal / Future plans: Creating cities/communities of change (most definitely in a desert)

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Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies:
The program’s classes cover many of my intellectual interests, while also offering practical solutions to our society’s challenges.

What I like best about Urban Studies:
The small classes provide a forum for challenging and fascinating discussions and the opportunity to get to know faculty and other students well.

Favorite book (and why): East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Something else you should know about me: I studied abroad in Madrid, Spain for six months.

Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies:
I took a look at the bulletin to see which classes were required of different majors. I took classes from different departments to gauge my interests and Urban Studies won.

What I like best about Urban Studies:
I really like the interdisciplinary aspect of the major because I have the opportunity to learn about specific issues through various lenses.

Favorite class / professor (and why):
Ethics and Politics of Public Service with Rob Reich because it really challenged me to reflect on my public service and its impact on the community.

Favorite book (and why): Harry Potter because it was such a huge part of my childhood!

Career goal / Future plans: Somewhere in the public/ nonprofit sector

Extracurriculars: Dance Marathon, EPASA, XO, summer 09 RA

Something else you should know about me: I don't like chocolate...

Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies: It fits almost everything that interests and inspires me.

What I like best about Urban Studies: It's focused on solutions.

Career goal / Future plans: Administrative Social Work

Other academic interests (majors, minors): Minor in Feminist Studies

Extracurriculars: Stanford Outdoor Outreach Program, The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness

Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies: It combines all my interests into one convenient major, and is the only undergraduate education degree at The Stan.

What I like best about Urban Studies: Knowing where and how I’ll be able to apply in my life everything I learn in class.

Favorite class / professor (and why): EDUC 116X, Service Learning as an Approach to Teaching

Favorite book (and why): ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’, by Norton Juster. Read it to a kid.

Career goal / Future plans: President of the United States

Extracurriculars: Fleet Street, recruiting for the Americorps and City Year

Something else you should know about me: Did I mention I’m running for President of the United States?

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What I like best about Urban Studies: I love that it’s an interdisciplinary program; you get the best of a lot of different subject areas

What I like best about Urban Studies: It’s great that the major has such flexibility, so I essentially get to take whatever classes I’m interested in and count them towards my major

Favorite class / professor (and why): EDUC 270X: Learning to Lead in Public Service Organizations / Dr. Grace Hoagland

Favorite book (and why): Too many to list

Career goal / Future plans: Obtaining a teaching credential, attending public policy/law school

Other academic interests (majors, minors): Minor, Ethics in Society

Extracurriculars: dv8 Hip Hop, Sigma Nu, ASSU Executive

Something else you should know about me: I love getting to know new people and learning new things

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