Course Description
Urban growth and approaches to urban analysis. Urbanization processes within urban systems, including economic, demographic, social, and technological change.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Additional readings, assignments, and questions on tests.
Athena Title
Advanced Urban Geography
Prerequisite
GEOG 3630 or GEOG 3630E or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To increase students’ a) abilities to think geographically; b) understanding of urban geography; c) abilities to interpret information about how cities influence the rest of the world; d) understanding of the roots of growing inequalities within cities; e) learning about how class readings and discussion relates to Athens through engaged service learning. This course meets the following General Education Abilities by accomplishing the specific learning objectives listed below: Communicate effectively through writing. This is met by a series of writing assignments associated with supplemental reading and data analysis. Communicate effectively through speech. This is met by oral presentations, discussion leading, and classroom participation. Computer Literacy is addressed through course administration, student-faculty electronic interaction, and data analysis activities and assignments. Critical Thinking is central to the learning objectives of this class, and is developed through homework assignments, lecture, classroom discussion, and inquiry- based learning efforts. Moral Reasoning (Ethics) is an important element of this course, as it explores linkages among urban systems, economic development, lifestyles, and globalizing forces. Moral reasoning is developed through lectures, writing assignments, classroom discussion, and inquiry-based learning activities.
Topical Outline
Course Introduction ***THEORETICAL IN-ROADS*** Missing Geography: Social Movements on the head of a Pin—Miller and Martin Social Movements as Politics—Tilly Free Spaces: “The People Shall Rule”—Evans and Boyte - City and Justice: Social Movements in the City—Harvey Rules for Radicals: Chaps 1 & 2—Alinsky Rules for Radicals: Chaps 3,4,5—Alinsky Rules for Radicals: Chaps 6 & 7—Alinsky --THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE-- Poor People’s Movements: Chap 1—Piven and Cloward Poor People’s Movements: Chap 2—Piven and Cloward Poor People’s Movements: Chap 3—Piven and Cloward Poor People’s Movements: Chap 4—Piven and Cloward Poor People’s Movements: Chap 5—Piven and Cloward Race and Political Activism—Pulido Direct Action Protest in Georgia’s Cities, 1960-1965—Tuck Neighborhood Protest and the Voices of the Black Working Poor—Grady-Willis Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering…Chap 5—Naples Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering…Chap 6—Naples Radical Politics Out of Place? The Curious case of ACT UP—Brown Performing Inoperative Community—Rose The Pesticide Campaign of the UFW Organizing Committee: 57-90—Pulido The Pesticide Campaign of the UFW Organizing Committee: 90-124—Pulido
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