Index of all Curriculum Units, 2005-2024

section "U"

Selecting a Unit number will take you to the Guide Entry for that Unit.

United Nations

Millennium Development Goals of 2000
10.02.04 The Role of Persuasion in Global Politics: The United Nations and Millennium Development Goals

Urban

Data
13.04.07 Appetizers, Main Courses, and Desserts: A Menu of Sociological Research Methods
11.04.05 Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
11.04.07 Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness
07.03.07 Santa Fe and the World: Maps and Mapmaking of People, Places and Poverty

Education
09.02.02 The Audacity of Hope for a Hopeless Generation
09.02.03 Turning Hope into Reality

Environment
24.01.09 Traces of the Past: From Landscape to Cityscape
24.01.10 The History of Richmond through Maps
22.05.05 Graphing the Urban Health Impacts of Rising Temperature, Air Quality and Increased Pollen
20.04.08 How Should I Get to School? A Life Cycle Assessment of DC’s Public Transportation
20.04.09 Investigating Surfaces and Water Runoff in Urban Areas
20.04.10 Engineers Wanted: Climate Change Experience Necessary!
20.04.11 Mask On: Clearing the Air: the Challenges of Indoor Air Pollution on Urban Health and Academic Performance
12.07.10 School Redesign with Environmental Health in Mind

Geography
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
18.01.02 A Church Hill: The Birth, Death, Revival But What About the Children?
18.02.05 Activism and Cultural Identity Through Works of Art in Chicago Neighborhoods
14.04.11 Auditorium Building, Chicago: "The Temple of Peace."
13.04.01 The Study of a Zip Code: Tulsa's Invisible City
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure
13.04.04 Travel Stories: Mapping the Vision, Walking the Journey
13.04.09 Vacant Lot: The Chicago Ickes Community Remembered

History
20.03.03 Codes of Conduct: Racist Housing and Education Policies that Impact Urban Students
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
15.01.09 Revisiting Race and Riot: Exploring Tulsa’s Conflicts in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Image
15.03.06 Looking at Desegregation through Local Narratives: A Case Study at Tulsa Central High School
15.03.07 Telling Stories: Place, Space, and Memory in Chicago's Parks
14.01.06 Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution
14.03.02 Neighborhood as Palimpsest: An Examination of Chicago's Back of the Yards Neighborhood Through Urban Historical Geography
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure
13.04.08 Invisible Richmond: The History Behind the Urban Landscape
13.04.10 Discovering the Invisible Bay Street: Uncovering Emeryville's History and Understanding Our Own
12.04.09 The Resiliency of the Black Family
11.04.05 Intangible Space and the Map of Desire in the Gage Park Neighborhood
11.04.08 The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and Its Legacy: Experiencing Place as Text
10.01.02 Historical Perspectives through Analysis of Art and Poetry
07.03.08 Portraits of Places: Maps and Art from the European City View to the Aboriginal Dreamtime Paintings
07.03.09 Mapping the Great Migration 1916-1930: African American Movement from the South to the North

Immigration
19.03.05 Current Refugee and Immigrant Policy in the United States: How Do They Impact Your Community?
15.03.04 French History in Your City: San Jose, California - the Pellier Brothers
14.03.01 Lights, Camera, Immigration! An Examination of Global Cities through Film
14.03.05 Immigration and Migration: My Family and My Community
14.03.07 The Settled and the Unsettled, Then and Now: Rites of Passage in Urban Life and Narrative
13.04.03 Whence We Stand: A Visual/Geography/History Adventure
07.04.01 Boricua, Morena: Latin-Caribbean American and African American Cultural Connections En ciudad de Filadelfia

Life
18.01.02 A Church Hill: The Birth, Death, Revival But What About the Children?
16.01.10 Code-Switching: From Indian Boarding Schools to Urban Classrooms
15.03.02 Silicon Valley’s Otro Lado, Youth Voices Speak About Their Community in Film
15.03.03 My City Need' Something
15.06.06 Statistical Methods and Health in Chicago
14.03.01 Lights, Camera, Immigration! An Examination of Global Cities through Film
14.03.07 The Settled and the Unsettled, Then and Now: Rites of Passage in Urban Life and Narrative
14.04.11 Auditorium Building, Chicago: "The Temple of Peace."
13.01.07 Picturing Paris: Sites and Sights of the City
13.02.06 Interpreting the Urban Landscape
13.04.01 The Study of a Zip Code: Tulsa's Invisible City
12.01.07 Present, Past, and Future: Using a Consumer Lens to Help Students Envision a Future
11.04.07 Mind the Gap: Planting the Seeds of Cultural Awareness
09.02.04 The Great African/African-American Intellectual Tradition for Liberation: Resistance Past, Present and Beyond
08.05.07 Rice to Feed the World- Estimations on Rice Consumption and Production

Planning
20.03.01 It’s the Economy, Stupid: Lessons in Economics, Banking, and Personal Finance from the Financial Crisis of 2008
20.04.08 How Should I Get to School? A Life Cycle Assessment of DC’s Public Transportation
20.04.09 Investigating Surfaces and Water Runoff in Urban Areas
19.03.11 A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond

Universal Design
13.04.06 People with Disabilities: An Invisible Community

Politics
11.04.02 Strange Fruit: An Exploration of Imagery and Socio-politics of Post-Katrina New Orleans