GEOG 581 H10 30871

SocBehavSci, NotCore

This course examines cultural understandings of and responses to globalization, examining topics such as its history and theories, migration, economic integration and inequality, identity, social movements, and the environment. FS: 12/05/2018. CL: 2020.

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How does where you live influence who you are? How do our understandings of the world - our beliefs, values, dreams, and memories - influence the environments of everyday life? What can we learn about cultural identity and belonging by examining the landscapes and places we think are important to who we are? How does society reinforce or challenge issues such as social, economic, or political inequality through planning and organizing physical and social space? This course introduces students to spatial ways of thinking about culture, including the interrelationships between power, meanings and values, ways of life, and material things we use every day. By the end of this course students will: demonstrate an understanding of the field of cultural geography with reference to current research; use the concepts of space, place, and landscape to examine current social issues; demonstrate a geographic understanding of how identity and inequality are produced in society; and use spatial concepts to study local topics. Students keep a fieldwork journal, conduct a research project, and participate in classroom discussions about assigned theoretical, research, popular, fiction, or documentary material as assigned.