Fall 2020  |  GEOG 3371W Section 001: Cities, Citizens, and Communities (13605)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (49 of 50 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to cities and suburbs as unique crossroads of cultural, social, and political processes. Competing/conflicting visions of city life, cultural diversity, and justice. Focuses on the American city.
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
In this course students will understand, explore, analyze, write and experience how urban spaces are produced through the interactions of different social groups that come together in various urban spaces within a city. Students will understand, how urban spaces (cities) in the United States are created, (re)created and experienced in everyday life through different social group interactions. Students will explore how intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality help create diverse and often contested areas/neighborhoods within and among cities. Through theoretical, historical and contemporary perspectives of urban space, students will analyze and write about the production of cultural spaces in the city. In particular, students will explore the role of urban cultural systems through a series of films and novels that highlight different urban neighborhoods in the U.S. Finally, students will experience and analyze urban cultural spaces first hand through a required group active learning project. Students will have the opportunity to engage with communities, cultural spaces and places in the Twin Cities. The project will combine ethnographic, visual and other research methods to facilitate a process of analysis and learning through direct personal experiences. Please note that this is a writing intensive course. Writing-intensive courses require a significant amount of writing?minimally ten to fifteen finished pages beyond informal writing and any in-class examinations. Students in WI courses are given instruction on the writing aspect of the assignments, and these assignments include at least one for which students are required to revise a draft after receiving feedback.
Workload:
1 Exam(s)
3 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
1 Special Project(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13605/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
16 April 2013

ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 Geography Classes

To link directly to this ClassInfo page from your website or to save it as a bookmark, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=GEOG&catalog_nbr=3371W&term=1209
To see a URL-only list for use in the Faculty Center URL fields, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=GEOG&catalog_nbr=3371W&term=1209&url=1
To see this page output as XML, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=GEOG&catalog_nbr=3371W&term=1209&xml=1
To see this page output as JSON, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=GEOG&catalog_nbr=3371W&term=1209&json=1
To see this page output as CSV, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=GEOG&catalog_nbr=3371W&term=1209&csv=1
Schedule Viewer
8 am
9 am
10 am
11 am
12 pm
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm
5 pm
6 pm
7 pm
8 pm
9 pm
10 pm
s
m
t
w
t
f
s
?
Class Title

ClassInfo created and maintained by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

If you have questions about specific courses, we strongly encourage you to contact the department where the course resides.