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GEOG 8980 is also offered in Fall 2024
GEOG 8980 is also offered in Spring 2024
GEOG 8980 is also offered in Spring 2023
GEOG 8980 is also offered in Spring 2022
GEOG 8980 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2018 | GEOG 8980 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Confronting Settler Colonial Univ: A Working Group (52133)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Meets With:
ANTH 8980 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Social Sciences Building 360
- Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52133/1183
Spring 2018 | GEOG 8980 Section 002: Topics in Geography -- Theorizing the Urban Experience: Then and Now (68762)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Social Sciences Building 448
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent
- Class Description:
The formation of concepts and the construction of theories have always been vital aspects of how we grasp urban worlds. It is through such practices that we come to fathom who, what, where and why we are in these worlds. Theories provide cognitive maps for finding our way in a complex and changing environment. Experience leads us to construct, transform, and modify these cognitive maps continuously. This seminar offers a selective cut into urban geography scholarship, old and new, foreground three themes: production of space, marginality, and southern urbanism. While geographical political economy will form the seminar's center of gravity, our readings will include exemplars from other materialisms. Key monographs and writings in Geography and related fields that have been formative in theorizing the urban experience will be this seminar's raison d'être.
- Grading:
- Participants will post weekly one-page critical commentaries on readings, chair two class discussions, and write a 20-page course paper that demonstrates a capacity to leverage theoretical insights from the seminar to make an intellectually rigorous argument around an empirical or philosophical problem of their choosing (if desired, this paper can take the form of a research proposal).
- Class Format:
- Discussion and short lectures.
- Workload:
- Reading load will be moderate to heavy (~ 100 to 150 pages per week). Class will be discussion driven, with intermittent short lectures by the instructor to situate materials.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68762/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 December 2017
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