SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
Examines the cultural, social and political interactions that occur in urban landscapes including parks, plazas, streets and other public open spaces. An examination of past and present landscapes as sites of the struggle for social justice. The focus is on urban landscapes of the United States.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Humanities or 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: Fall 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how urban landscapes shape struggles for social justice Audience: Undergraduate 2. Acquire and apply skills with which to analyze the social dimensions of urban landscapes Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and understand how specific design features influence social relations Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe how landscape design styles and ideologies are constitutive of social relations through time and how these continue to operate in contemporary urban landscapes Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply concepts and theories of social justice to analyze urban landscape design in terms of race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, and socioeconomic status, among others Audience: Undergraduate 6. Apply visual methodologies to reveal the meaning of design drawings, photographs, art as well as assemblages such as landscapes, websites, news articles, videos among others Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Apply discourse theory to the web of landscape representations to explain struggles for social justice Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how urban landscapes shape struggles for social justice Audience: Undergraduate 2. Acquire and apply skills with which to analyze the social dimensions of urban landscapes Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and understand how specific design features influence social relations Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe how landscape design styles and ideologies are constitutive of social relations through time and how these continue to operate in contemporary urban landscapes Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply concepts and theories of social justice to analyze urban landscape design in terms of race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, and socioeconomic status, among others Audience: Undergraduate 6. Apply visual methodologies to reveal the meaning of design drawings, photographs, art as well as assemblages such as landscapes, websites, news articles, videos among others Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Apply discourse theory to the web of landscape representations to explain struggles for social justice Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027