Introduction to Cultural Geography (Diversity)

General

Prefix

GEOG

Course Number

270

Course Level

Undergraduate

College/School

College of Science and Engineering

Description

Examines a range of concepts, themes, and approaches geographers have used to explore how cultural ideas, practices and forms interact with particular spaces, places and landscapes. Topical.

Credits

Min

3

Max

3

Repeatable

No

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

Yes

MN Goal Designation(s)

06

Cultural Diversity

No

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

Identify and explain key concepts in cultural geography and the various ways culture has been approached in geography.

Outcome

Identify and describe different types of culture regions with actual examples and various types and characteristics of folk and popular cultural diffusion with actual examples.

Outcome

Explain the role places and spatial segregation plays in the formation, maintenance and emelioration of racial and ethnic identity and difference.

Outcome

Describe the ways geographers approach race, gender, class and sexuality as categories of cultural identity and meaning.

Outcome

Describe the micro-scale geographies of gender, including the moral and gendered demarcation of public and private space and the gendered constraints to mobility.

Outcome

Describe the micro-scale geographies of gender, including the moral and gendered demarcation of public and private space and the gendered constraints to mobility.

Outcome

Explain the significance and different scales of home and belonging as a cultural phenomenon.

Outcome

Describe the current trends toward and resultant conflicts caused by transnationalism as a consequence of cultural globalization.

Outcome

Comment on possible impacts of future globalization on world cultures: western and non-western.

Dependencies

Courses

GEOG270 is a prerequisite for:

Programs

GEOG270 is a completion requirement for: