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UES Handbook

Bank Street College and Brown University share a commitment to fostering civic responsibility. Since 1987, the two institutions have collaborated in supporting the Urban Education Semester (UES), an intensive and challenging educational experience.

Employing the powerful lens of urban public schools in New York City to examine a network of disciplines – urban studies, public policy, community development, system reform – UES combines a graduate-level, demanding course of theoretical study with hands-on, supervised fieldwork. Participants spend three days a week working in public policy or classroom placements, and in their evenings, take on a full semester of graduate-level study with Bank St College's prestigious faculty. Weekly group field trips and discussion group seminars; individual advising conferences; and monthly on-site visits by faculty advisors encourage participants to integrate their field placement experiences with the theoretical frameworks they examine in their courses.

Download the UES Handbook here.

This video by UES alum Graham Browne provides a brief introduction to the UES program.

"Studies at UES and Bank Street also gave me very interesting and hands-on perspectives on issues of diversity and multi-culturalism in a urban setting. The ideas I was exposed to, and the pedagogical skills that I acquired are definitely applicable to work situations outside of classroom teaching."
- UES Fall '08 Participant

"The Urban Education Semester helped me fall in love with New York, a City I have now called home for almost five years. My outstanding professors, advisors, mentors and peers inspired me to make New York my own and challenged me to think critically about my views on public education."
- UES Fall '06 Participant

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