Geography 301 – Cultural Geography

Spring 2010 – Ticket 11827

Syllabus

Worksheets

Term paper

"Aguirre, the Wrath of God" review

Geography journals

Weekly Readings

Week 1

Week 2

Tuan, “A View of Geography”

Tuan, “Place: An Experiential Perspective”

Massey, “A Global Sense of Place”                       

Week 3 

Farber, “The Third Circle”

Davidson, “Recalcitrant Space”

Schjeldahl, "To Pico"

Week 4

Sack, "A Sketch of a Geographic Theory of Morality"

Kozol, "Savage Inequalities" (pp. 1-39)

Week 5

Week 6

Sauer, “Forward to Historical Geography”

Duncan, "The Superorganic"

Mitford, “The American Way of Death” (chaps 1-3)

Week 7

Cosgrove, “Geography is Everywhere”

Week 8

Week 9

Oldenburg, "The Problem of Place in America"

Oldenburg, "The Character of Third Places"

Week 10

Jackson, "The Order of a Landscape"

Meinig, "Symbolic Landscapes" (with Jackson pdf)

Week 11

Stilgoe, "Landschaft and Linearity"
                       

Week 12

Starr, “A City Desperately Seeking a Civic Identity”

Week 13

Week 14

Tuan, “Literature and Geography”

Tuan, "Realism and Fantasy"

Mishima, “Patriotism”

Cheever, "The Swimmer"

Ignore the links below:

"Woman in the Dunes" assignment

Mitchell, "A Place for Everyone"

Harvey, "The Political Economy of Public Space"

Teaching with technology

Faludi, "The Creature in the Mirror"

Harvey, “Monument and Myth”

Garde, “City sense and suburban design”