The Urban Studies Major provides a broad interdisciplinary understanding of how urban dynamics shape both global interdependence and local spaces.
It emphasizes how cities are increasingly critical to the organization of economic, social, and cultural activities that shape and transform human experience. The major provides opportunities for community learning in Hartford, approved selective courses at the University of Connecticut or the University of Hartford, study away in international cities, as well as internships in a variety of urban settings.
As the main curricular wing of the Center for Urban and Global Studies, the mission of the Urban Studies program is to help students build an interdisciplinary understanding of how urban dynamics shape both global interdependence and local spaces through a rigorous four-year program of classroom learning, field research, study away, and other forms of urban engagement in Hartford and beyond. The Urban Studies program provides academic strengthening of Trinity’s strong links with Hartford as a distinctive asset, and it is a critical supporting mechanism for the College’s urban-global mission and urban-global curricular emphasis.
As one of the first Trinity students to receive the Rosemary and Stan Marcuss ’63 Fellowship for Research in Urban Studies, Kendra Keelan ’23 recently completed her senior thesis on academic and institutional community engagement at Trinity and other colleges.
Trinity College will begin offering Connecticut’s first Master of Arts Degree in Urban Planning in fall 2023. The program is aligned with Trinity’s mission to prepare bold, independent thinkers to lead transformative lives and take on some of the world’s biggest challenges.
New research by Laura H. Delgado of Trinity College looks at the active role immigrants play in developing cultural programming in their communities.
