Students seeking a Bachelor of Arts degree from UConn's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences must earn a minimum of 120 credits in order to graduate. The College requires that 24 of those credits be within a major. Students must also complete a minimum of 12 additional credits in courses broadly related to their major, but outside of their major department. Students may take courses listed within the major as long as they are not URBN courses or cross-listed with URBN. See examples below in table.
| Courses within the major that maybe taken as a Related with advisor approval |
Courses within the major that cannot be taken as a Related (i.e., URBN or Cross-listed with URBN) |
| ECON 2439 | ECON/URBN 3439 |
| GEOG 4210 | GEOG/URBN 3200 |
| HIST 3554 | HIST/URBN 2541 |
| PP 3020 | SOCI 3903/URBN 3276 |
| SOCI 2301 | URBN 2400 |
Courses related to the Urban and Community Studies (UCS) major can typically be found in disciplines, such as Economics, Geography, History, Human Development and Family Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, and Sociology. However, this is not an exhaustive list of possible academic disciplines for related courses nor are all courses found in these disciplines automatically considered to be related. Students should discuss their related course interests and options during their advising sessions with their UCS faculty advisor.
Courses to be counted towards the related requirement must be pre-approved by the student’s UCS advisor. Students must submit written confirmation of this pre-approval when completing their Final Plan of Study with the program.