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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
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Mon 02:30PM - 05:00PM
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
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Wed 01:30PM - 04:30PM
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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