GEOG 372 - Topics in Human Geography

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

This seminar focuses on advanced debates in the socio- spatial organization of the modern world. The specific topic of inquiry varies from year to year. Students may repeat the course for credit if the topic changes. Previous seminar themes include the urban-industrial transition, the urban frontier, urban poverty, cities of the Americas, segregation in the city, global migration, and reading globalization.

Topic for 2013/14b: Lines, Fences, and Walls: The Partitioning of the Global Landscape. This course examines the making of the spatial boundaries that divide and connect people and places across the Earth’s surface. In doing so, it considers the origins and evolution of various types of divides-from private property lines that have marked the demise of commons throughout the world, to the barbed wire fences used to contain people and animals, and the international boundary walls and barriers that increasingly scar the global landscape-and considers various effects of and responses to these phenomena. Mr. Nevins.

Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor.

One 3-hour period.