Geography of Opportunity

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This seminar course is designed to explore geographic approaches to higher education in the urban context. Readings will introduce main issues around urban education, and the relation between of higher education institutions and their local context. At the end of this course, it is expected that students will be able to: 1) Become familiar with education literature that uses spatial theories. 2) Understand basic concepts of geographic theories. 3) Engage in intellectual inquiry surrounding social theory broadly. 4) Apply spatial analysis to a higher education institution in a geography of interest.