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May 05, 2024
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T3 4081 - Landscape and Culture
A cross-cultural examination of the ways in which human cultural values, traditions, and discourses are manifested, constructed, and materialized in the cultural landscape. Focuses on an examination of how the concepts of culture and cultural landscape have evolved over time within the discipline of human geography, with an emphasis on current post-structural conceptualizations. Synthesizes the connections between spatial organization, the social/cultural construction of place, and social power within the context of relevant social and literary theory. Traces and examines connections between cultural, environmental, economic, and political processes. Examines ways in which social discourse is materialized in the cultural landscape.
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will acquire a fuller understanding of the geographical concept of cultural landscape, particularly with regard to how definitions of the term have changed over time.
- Students will acquire a fuller understanding of the ways in which social discourses are materialized in cultural landscapes.
- Students will gain a fuller understanding of how the concept of culture has been, and is currently, conceptualized within the discipline of human geography, with an emphasis on current post-structural formulations.
- Students will gain an understanding of how geographical analysis can be useful in the examination of local, national, and international social, economic, and environmental problems.
- Students will gain an understanding of the connections between spatial organization, the social/cultural construction of place, and social power within the context of relevant social theories.
- Students will learn to understand how geographical concepts and methods can be employed to examine connections between cultural, environmental, economic, and political processes.
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