Curriculum for the USP Minor (Prior to Fall 2024)
This is the curriculum required for all students that ENTERED UCSD prior to Fall 2024. Students who started at UCSD in Fall 2024 or later are held to new curriculum requirements and should check this page for details.
The USP minor consists of seven (7) courses unique to the USP interdisciplinary curriculum which must be selected with the prior approval of the USP student affairs advisor.
Per Academic Senate policy, students may overlap a maximum of two upper-division courses (8 UD units) between their major and minor.
All courses must be taken for a letter grade and students must earn at least "C-" in each course used for the minor.
You can declare the minor using the major/minor tool.
USP Minor Requirements
- Five (5) upper division courses from those that serve the USP major
- Two (2) courses chosen from among the list below:
Lower Division/Foundation Courses
- USP 1: History of U.S. Urban Communities
- USP 2: Urban World System
- USP 3:City and Social Theory
- USP 4: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- USP 100: Introduction to Urban Planning
- USP 102/ECON 135: Urban Economics
- USP 103/HIUS 148: American Cities in the Twentieth Century (may substitute USP 165/HIUS 147)
- USP 104/ETHN 105: Ethnic Diversity and the City
- USP 105/SOCI 153: Urban Sociology
- USP 106/HIUS 129: The History of Race and Ethnicity in American Cities
- USP 107/POLI 102E: Urban Politics
- USP 124: Land Use Planning
- USP 173: History of Urban Planning & Design
