Methodology_

This course will use a combination of lectures and students presentations with field visits and some field work. Students will be required to attend the field trips and visits organized for this course and maintain, extend and update the information in a field-study journal. The teacher will evaluate this journal throughout the course. Some of the sessions in the classroom will be used for discussion and other for lectures either by the teacher or by some relevant guest speakers. Attendance to the class and visits is mandatory.

Class Requirements and Assessment_

This course will have short assignments (field trip reports) and a term research paper (including a class presentation of this paper) besides a mid term exam and a final comprehensive exam. The students will have a series of field trips some of them teacher guided and other self guided. At the end they will need to present a journal with a summary of all those field trips and visits.
The topic of the term paper will be discussed with the instructor before starting the work. Students will choose the topic of the paper from a set of suggestions offered by the instructor or any other topic that might better fit their interests. One of the possibilities is to write a paper and a class presentation about one of the neighborhoods of the city focusing in any aspect or a combination of them, such as: tourism, history, economy, politics, etc.

The final grade will be based on the following distribution:
•  Class Participation and Oral presentations and Field Journals : 25%
•  Mid Term Exam: 20% : example
•  Term Paper: 25%
•  Final Exam: 30%