URBS 325 Alternative Housing
This course explores the radical alternatives to housing people have imagined, built, and occupied over the last 125 years with environmental and social justice at the forefront of our studies. These include feminist, cooperative, environmentally-sensitive, nomadic, and self-sustaining "living environments" that challenge our understanding not only of h ow most of us live, but also our notions of gender, racial, and ethnic equity; food justice; class and capitalism; and traditional home-work lives. Prerequisites: WRIT 313, Advanced Academic Writing; LSCI 105, Information Theory and Practice, or LSCI 106, Information Sources in Architecture and Interior Design or, LSCI 205, Information in the Disciplines