POWER, PLACE, IDENTITY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze current conceptualizations of power, place, identity, and difference, particularly those from geographers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Evaluate major trends, themes, and approaches that have emerged in the field of political geography, especially as they are related to geographies of identification and differentiation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Employ a performative approach in understanding processes of place-making, bordering, and identification/differentiation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify theoretical debates in the political geography literature. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Discuss major themes and approaches related to questions of power, place, identity, difference, and nationalism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Identify research questions related to course themes in ways that are responsive to major debates in the literature. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze current conceptualizations of power, place, identity, and difference, particularly those from geographers. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Evaluate major trends, themes, and approaches that have emerged in the field of political geography, especially as they are related to geographies of identification and differentiation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Employ a performative approach in understanding processes of place-making, bordering, and identification/differentiation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Identify theoretical debates in the political geography literature. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Discuss major themes and approaches related to questions of power, place, identity, difference, and nationalism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Identify research questions related to course themes in ways that are responsive to major debates in the literature. Audience: Graduate