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Urban Studies at 50
SC1580
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Urban Studies at 50
Identifier/Call Number: SC1580
Physical Description:
7 gigabyte(s)
Date: 2020
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Interviews were conducted as part of the Community History Toolkit, an effort by University
Archives and the Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program sponsored by a grant from
the Stanford Associates.
Piloted in the fall of 1969 by a committee of the Associated Students of Stanford
University (ASSU), the Stanford Program on Urban Studies began in an age of experimentation
with student-initiated curriculum. At the time, the program consisted of three courses run
by a single student administrator. In 1985, the program was authorized to grant Bachelor of
Arts degrees; by 2020, the program listed or cross-listed some forty courses and was home to
approximately thirty undergraduate majors and minors. Timed to follow closely on the
program's 50th anniversary, this oral history project uses documentary sources and
interviews with affiliated faculty, program leaders, and students to understand how and why
the Program on Urban Studies was started, and how it has changed over time. The project aims
to produce more than just an institutional history; it hopes to illuminate larger themes in
the history of student activism, and in the politics of urban knowledge.
[identification of item], Urban Studies at 50 (SC1580). Department of Special Collections
& University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
This collection contains oral history interviews with faculty and students involved with
the creation and early years of the Program on Urban Studies at Stanford. Participants
recall how they got interested in urban studies as a field, their participation in the
administration of the program, and some of the courses in the program.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cities and towns -- Study and
teaching
Stanford University. Program on Urban Studies