Karna Wong

UCI School of Social Ecology

Courses

  • UPPP 292, Masters of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) Professional Report, graduate course on research design, writing and presentation skills
  • UPPP 246, Housing Policy, graduate course on housing markets, finance, affordability, subsidies, discrimination, programs, and policies
  • UPPP 101, History of Cities (formerly Urbanization and Social Change), undergraduate course that provides a historical overview of the evolution of cities from around the world
  • UPPP 5, Introduction to Planning & Public Policy, undergraduate course on methods to address social and environmental policy issues, including collective decision-making, strategic planning, and policy implementation and evaluation
  • SE 195W, Field Study, undergraduate service learning and writing course for students completing field study internships at a local community nonprofit, educational, government or business organization
  • SE 194W, Naturalistic Field Research, undergraduate course on qualitative research methods and writing
  • SE 13, Statistical Analysis, undergraduate course to introduce students to data interpretation, analysis and statistics
  • SE 10, Research Design, undergraduate course to teach quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research methods

Course Highlights

UPPP 292 MURP Professional Report Course

Check out the new website about the Professional Reports: https://sites.google.com/view/ucimurp-pr/home

UPPP 246 MURP Housing Policy

UPPP 5 Introduction to Planning & Public Policy

UPPP 101 History of Cities (formerly Urbanization & Social Change)

Poster Presentations Fall 2018

In Dr. Karna Wong’s Urban Planning and Public Policy (UPPP) 101 Urbanization & Social Change (now History of Cities) course, students created posters on U.S. and international cities. Students researched the city’s history, socioeconomic data, and a social change event or movement. Cities are dynamic, innovative places of social change driven by cultural, religious, economic, scientific, and technological forces. This course provides a historical overview of cities from around the world. Through various theoretical frameworks, students analyze cities and their successes, failures, problems, and solutions. Students evaluated and voted on the top 20 posters, which were on display in the Science Library 2nd floor Lobby from Dec. 2018 to Jan. 2019.

SE 194W Naturalistic Field Research

Marshmallow Challenge

In Dr. Karna Wong’s Social Ecology (SE) 194W Naturalistic Field Research course, teams of teaching assistants attempted to build the tallest structure with spaghetti sticks, tape, string, and a marshmallow on top. Each team had approximately 15 minutes to build the structure, while students took notes to practice naturalistic field observation. For more information about the Marshmallow Challenge, view this 2010 TedTalk, “Build a tower, build a team” with Tom Wujec: https://youtu.be/H0_yKBitO8M