Cultural Geography

Catalog description

As an advanced course in human/cultural geography, this class examines theory and topics of the relationships between culture and spaces/places, especially spatial aspects of social, economic and political power. The focus is on the construction of landscapes and the everyday practices that imbue them with meaning. Students develop analytical skills to investigate places from a variety of methods, and learn to interpret the landscape around them as a expression of cultural (and other) forces. Students learn to "read" the world and "read the landscape" as it presents itself in the form of the built environment, a landscape that is shaped by its multifaceted inhabitants, and cultural and geographical forces.