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GEOG 3911

Special Topic in Geography

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

2022–2023

Topics

  • Introduction and Fundamentals First Day of Class
  • Transportation Modes
  • Urban Transportation
  • Transportation and the Economy
  • Transportation, Energy and Environment
  • Transportation Planning and Policy

Readings

  • Recommended: Rodrigue, Jean-Paul with Comtois, Claude and Slack, Brian. (2013). TheGeographyof TransportSystems,4thEdition. London and New York: Routledge
  • Recommended: Black, William. 2003. Transportation:AGeographicalAnalysis. New York: The Guilford Press.
Winter 2020

Topics

  • What Is Globalization?
  • The Global Neoliberal World and the Crisis of Care
  • Globalization and the New Capitalism
  • Global Neoliberalism and Structural Adjustment
  • Globalization and Corporatization
  • Deregulation and Inequality
  • The Ecological Footprint
  • The Search for Self in a Global World
  • Globalization, Gender, and the Flexible Labour Market
  • Technology and Global Capital Flows
  • Imagining an Alternative

Readings

  • Required: Globalization. Buying and Selling the World. Wayne Ellwood.
  • Required: Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism. Ed. Melinda Vandenbeld Giles.
2019–2020

Topics

  • Introduction and Fundamentals First Day of Class
  • Transportation Modes
  • International Trade and Freight Distribution
  • Urban Transportation
  • Transportation and the Economy
  • Transportation, Energy and Environment
  • Transportation Planning and Policy

Readings

  • Required: Rodrigue, Jean-Paul with Comtois, Claude and Slack, Brian. (2013). The Geography of TransportSystems,4thEdition. London and New York: Routledge E-Resource:
  • Recommended: Black, William. 2003. Transportation: A Geographical Analysis. New York: The Guilford Press.
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