HumanStoryWorks · Urbanicity · Towson, Maryland
The Schools of Urbanicity
Two schools, one method: the museum is the curriculum. Students investigate real objects, real sources, and real cities — encounter, hypothesise, test, argue, make — from the first village to the modern skyline.
1,515Lessons built
100Museum halls
9Lower courses
61Upper courses
34Faculty
School I · Lower · K–12
The Academy
A full social-studies year in ninety lessons: three a week, thirty weeks, taught out of the museum halls. Every lesson runs the investigation arc, and the word “test” never appears.
- World history, American history, and the Labs ladders
- Leveled readings — three variants of every passage
- Look-for vocabulary, museum drawers, gallery walks
- Parents hold the grading floor and the clock
School II · Upper · Post-secondary
The Institute
Social sciences at university register: 6 tracks, 61 courses, taught by a faculty of 18 — sociology, economics, geography and GIS, history, political science, and computing.
- Urban theory, tall buildings, and the history of the city
- Economics labs — every curve readable off its table
- Office hours in Merrick Hall and online
- Every professor’s reading list, on their card
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