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York University
School of Social Sciences
Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and
Professional Studies
Summer 2003 (D1: May 5, June 18)
Course Outline: AK/GEOG 3410 6.0A Social and Cultural Spaces
Course Director: Dr. Joseph Mensah
Office: Room 320 Atkinson
Office Hrs: Monday – Thursday 5: 00 – 6:45 pm &
by appointment.
Tel: 416-736-2100 ext. 66344
e-mail: jmensah@yorku.ca
Meeting time and
place: Mon-Thursday, 4-7 pm; Stedman Lecture Hall C
Course Description
The course examines the impact of
human society and culture on the earth’s surface. It seeks to understand
how places develop meaning for people, through the analysis of socio-cultural
processes, landscapes, and identities. Social and Cultural Spaces is
essentially a celebration of human diversity, using the themes and concepts
of social and cultural geography. It examines the spatial ramifications of
key social and cultural phenomena, including religion, race, ethnicity, gender,
disability, and poverty, using examples from different parts of the world.
It bears stressing that the course is inherently related to other social
sciences, such as sociology, political science, and economics, due to the
multifaceted nature of society and culture.
Required Textbook
Pain, Rachel et al. (2001) Introducing Social Geographies (London:
Arnold)
(ISBN:0
340 72006 9)
Format:
Three-hour lecture
Prerequisites
Note: Degree credit exclusions: AS/GEOG 2060 3.0/6.0,
AS/GEOG 2065 3.0
Course Topics
1. Understanding
Geography
2. Philosophical
Options and Key Concepts
3. The
Geography of Leisure
4. Race,
Ethnicity, and Space
5. Seminar
on Academic Writing (Reviews)
6. Geographies
of Gender and Work
7. Religion
and Cultural Landscape
8. Geographies
of Disability
9. Housing,
Society, and Space
10. Crime,
Space, and Inequality
11. Geographies
of Poverty
12. Cultural
Politics and Cultural Resistance
Weighting of Course and Exam Schedule
Examination
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Grade
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Date
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Test #1
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25%
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Thursday May 15, 2003
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Test #2
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25%
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Thursday, May 29, 2003
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Article Review
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15%
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Tuesday June 10, 2003
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Final Exams
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30%
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Tuesday June 17, 2003
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Attendance
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5%
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Two impromptu roll calls
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Important notes on course tests/examinations
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Test 1, Test 2, and Final Examination:
They will entail a variety of question formats, including definitions,
multiple choice, short answers, and essays. The exact format for
each will be announced in due course.
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Article/Paper Review: Students would
be expected to select one journal article (or paper in an edited book, or
book) cited in our textbook and review it based on guidelines to be provided
in class. The review should be word-processed in a double-spaced format,
and should not exceed 1600 words. A word count should be provided at the
end of the review.
Last day to drop course
without receiving a grade: June 2, 2003
Reserve Reading
List: TBA
Other Readings
Cater, John and Jones, Trevor, 1989. Social
Geography: An Introduction to
Contemporary
Issues (London: Arnold)
Hamnett, Chris (ed.) 1996. Social Geography: A Reader
(London: Arnold).
Johnston, R.J.
1997. Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American Human Geography
Since
1945 (London: Arnold)
-------------------1986. Philosophy and Human Geography. (London & Baltimore:
Arnold).
Knox, Paul and Pinch, Steven 2000. Urban Social
Geography: An Introduction (London:
Prentice
Hall)
Mitchell, Don 2000. Cultural
Geography: A Critical Introduction (Malden,
Massachusetts: Blackwell).
Norton, William (2000), Cultural Geography: Themes, Concepts, Analyses (Don Mills,
Ontario:
Oxford University Press).
Shurmer-Smith, Pamela (ed.) 2002, Doing
Cultural Geography
(London: SAGE
Publications).
-----------and Hannam, K. 1994. Worlds of Desire, Realms of Power: A Cultural
Geography (New York: Routledge).
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