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GEOG 3973 is also offered in Fall 2024
GEOG 3973 is also offered in Spring 2024
GEOG 3973 is also offered in Fall 2023
GEOG 3973 is also offered in Spring 2023
GEOG 3973 is also offered in Fall 2022
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Spring 2024 | GEOG 3973 Section 001: Geography of the Twin Cities (55411)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
GEOG 1973 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
Open (18 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- The University of Minnesota sits in the middle of a fascinating city, and in this class you will explore parts of that city in-depth. You will learn about the human geography of the Twin Cities, how they have developed in the past, and how they are changing. You will examine the settlement, economic change, social practices, and political events that have shaped the Twin Cities, learning how to look at this place through multiple and contesting perspectives. Through a combination of in-depth field work, applied research, readings, and discussion, you will learn about urban concepts like immigration, Native populations, poverty, homelessness, segregation, redlining, suburbanization, shifts in retail and jobs, zoning, transit, metropolitan governance, urban renewal, and more. The goal is to foster your critical reflection on important, contemporary challenges facing our metropolitan region, and develop a new way to look at your present home.
- Class Description:
- Why do we have two cities here? Explore, discuss and learn about this Twin Cities region.... This course is a survey of the historical and contemporary geographical patterns of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Questions raised include: -Where are things located?( industry, transportation, housing, people of diverse backgrounds and resources, retail trade and services) -Why are they located as they are and what inequities can we observe? -What are things like at the neighborhood level and how have these changed over time? -How do economic and demographic forces produce changes on the landscape? -How do publicly sponsored planning and redevelopment programs try to correct the consequences of past actions? Class format is lecture and discussion. Questions are encouraged. Visual materials (power-point, and videos) will be used extensively. Field studies make up the bulk of the course - 60% of grade. You will get to know Minneapolis and St Paul in unique ways. All readings available on the Moodle site. Mid-term is short answer and map test, Final is cumulative and short answer and essay. Test study guide are given out. Some assignments differ for the 1973 level. In all assignments those registered in 3973 are expected to perform at a much higher level of analysis, and this will be reflected in the final grading curve.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
25% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
5% Attendance
- Class Format:
- 75% Lecture
10% Film/Video
10% Discussion
5% Small Group Activities
- Workload:
- 20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Special Project(s)
Other Workload: Majority of work contained in two written reports based on two self-guided field studies of Minneapolis and St Paul.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55411/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 June 2013
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