GEO 240 Cultural Geography

How are our identities, cultures and social relationships shaped by the physical world around us? How, in turn, do our cultural patterns come to shape our natural and built environments? This course provides an overview of cultural geography. It covers the basics as well as new developments in cultural geographic theory. The main aim is to understand relationships between cultures and environments through geographical analyses of social processes, landscapes, cultural meanings, place-making and identities. We will examine questions of power, performance, diffusion, diversity, hybridity, homogenization, hegemony, conflict, expression and resistance through case studies of local, regional and global spatial-cultural dynamics.

Credits

4

Distribution

(IG) (SS)