Global Metropolitan Studies
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About the Program
Global Metropolitan Studies is a field of study that addresses major transformations in cities around the world, and seeks to change how we study cities. The urban challenges we confront-from climate change, to entrenched patterns of segregation, to new configurations of politics and social movements, to infrastructure design and resilience-warrant a fundamental rethinking of inherited disciplinary silos. As a community of scholars across disciplines, we investigate the challenges and politics of urbanization. Our designated emphasis program prepares students to enter interdisciplinary collaborations, as well as to identify approaches from other disciplines that will enrich the study of the global-metropolitan from within their own discipline.
The objective of the designated emphasis (DE) is to encourage and support multidisciplinary doctoral-level education and research on global metropolitan issues. Multidisciplinary training will be provided through a wide range of course offerings as well as through participation in seminars and conferences organized by GMS.
The Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies is for selected UC Berkeley PhD students with interest in metropolitan and regional issues. Students may come from any discipline across campus. The designated emphasis provides students with certification as well as with a context for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and development of research.