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Philadelphia LOVE Park Sign

Tri-Co Philly: Urban Spaces, Historical Places: Society, Health and Social Justice in Philadelphia

Fall 2021

This course will take a broad view of the nation’s first capital, in anthropological, geographic, and historical perspective.

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Tri-Co Philly: A City of Homes: Housing Issues in Philadelphia

Spring 2025

This class investigates the unique history of housing in Philadelphia. We will cover the problems the city has faced and still faces in providing affordable housing, fair access to housing and creating diverse and vibrant neighborhoods and its great legacy of innovation in this area.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

Tri-Co Philly: Contemporary Art and Film in Philadelphia

Spring 2023

This course will explore the vibrant contemporary art world of the city of Philadelphia—a city uniquely positioned to attract artists with its many top-tier fine art schools, world-class museums, affordable living and studio spaces, and thriving network of artist-run galleries and exhibition spaces.

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Philadelphia Parkway

Tri-Co Philly: Place, People and Collaborative Research in Philadelphia

Fall 2019

This transdisciplinary course, which will be taught in Philadelphia, focuses on anthropology’s contributions (and potential contributions) to engaging critical environmental issues in urban settings.

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Tri-Co Philly: Epidemic City: Philadelphia from Yellow Fever to COVID-19

Fall 2023

This course will examine the history of epidemic disease in American cities, with a focus on Philadelphia.

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Philadelphia City

Tri-Co Philly: Race and Place: A Philadelphia Story

Fall 2020

Using Philadelphia neighborhoods as our site of study, this course will analyze the relationship between race/ethnicity and spatial inequality, emphasizing the institutions, processes, and mechanisms that shape the lives of urban dwellers.

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Tri-Co Philly: Access to Finance: Why Low-Income Households and Small Businesses in the US lack the financial products they need - a Philly Perspective

Spring 2025

This course aims to look at the importance of access to finance to small businesses and low and moderate income households, identifies how and why this access is lacking and examines efforts to address this issues.

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Philadelphia LOVE Sign

Tri-Co Philly: City of Brotherly Love: Images of a Changing City

Spring 2023

The course will engage with the history of Philadelphia as an immigrant city and look at the ways in which the different neighborhoods have changed over time.

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Philadelphia Highway

Tri-Co Philly: Environmental Justice: Theory and Action

Fall 2019

An introduction to the history and theory of environmental justice, an interdisciplinary field that examines how inequalities based on race, class, ethnicity, and gender shape how different groups of people are impacted by environmental problems and how they advocate for social and environmental change.

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Philadelphia Buildings

Tri-Co Philly: Public Art, Historical Preservation and the Ethics of Commemoration

Fall 2023

What is public art? What is public space? What is the role of public art in a democracy? Does the fact that something is historically significant give us a reason to preserve it? Which historically significant things should we preserve and why? What is the moral value of commemorative art?  How should we assess controversies surrounding the removal of art honoring persons or groups we now judge to be morally objectionable? How best should we memorialize victims of injustice?

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Philadelphia Mural

Tri-Co Philly: The Nature of Public Art and the Ethics of Commemoration

Fall 2020

In this course, we will take up a number of philosophical questions about the nature of public art, political aesthetics, and the ethics of commemoration using case studies drawn from Philadelphia.

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Philadelphia LOVE Sign

Tri-Co Philly: Philadelphia Music City

Spring 2025

Drawing on the “music” side of the previously taught “Popular Music & Media” course, this course will investigate the history and contemporary conditions of music making in Philadelphia and its region.

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