{"id":10,"date":"2018-02-24T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2018-02-24T15:21:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T15:21:05","slug":"syllabus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>January 29<sup>th<\/sup><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Introduction to the course<\/p>\n<p>In-class Film: Zemeckis, Robert. 1985. <em>Back to the Future<\/em>. Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>At-home Reading: Cooper Marcus, Clare. 1992. \u201cEnvironmental Memories.\u201d In <em>Place Attachment<\/em>, edited by Irwin Altman and Setha M. Low, 87\u2013112. New York: Springer.<\/p>\n<p>At-home Reading: Gieseking, Jen Jack. 2017. \u201cGeographical Imagination.\u201d Edited by Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Weidong Liu, Audrey Kobayashi, and Richard A. Marston. <em>International Encyclopedia of Geography<\/em>. New York: Wiley-Blackwell and the Association of American Geographers.<\/p>\n<p>At-home Exercise: Moodle forum about geographical imaginations of the \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d<\/p>\n<p><u>February 5<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<p>Assignment Due (via email): Environmental Autobiography<\/p>\n<p>In-class Film: Bryant, Linda Goode, and Laura Poitras. 2007. <em>Flag Wars<\/em>. Zeitgeist Films.<\/p>\n<p>At-home Exercise (continued): Moodle forum about geographical imaginations of the \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 5 \u2013 Meanings of Home: Rybczynski, Imrie, Blokland, Cooper, Wood and Beck<\/li>\n<li>Podcast: Caro, Robert. 2009. <em>Robert Caro: Biographer of Our Time<\/em>. October 16, CUNY Lecture Series. <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/podcasts\/2009\/10\/16\/robert-caro-biographer-of-our-time\/\">http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/podcasts\/2009\/10\/16\/robert-caro-biographer-of-our-time\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Podcast: This American Life. 2016. <em>The Problem We All Live With (II)<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/563\/the-problem-we-all-live-with-part-two\">https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/563\/the-problem-we-all-live-with-part-two<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>February 12<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 8 \u2013 Landscape: Nature and Culture: Jackson, Carney, Wolford, Pollan<\/li>\n<li>Marx, Leo. 1964. \u201cSleepy Hollow, 1844\u201d in <em>The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America<\/em>. NY: Oxford University Press, 3-33.<\/li>\n<li>Smith, Henry Nash. \u201cPreface,\u201d \u201cPrologue,\u201d and \u201cBook One\u201d in <em>Virgin Land: the American West as Symbol and Myth<\/em>. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, vii-viii, 1-48.<\/li>\n<li>Whitman, Walt. 2007. \u201cSong of Myself\u201d in <em>Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition<\/em>. New York: Dover.<\/li>\n<li>Crenshaw, Kimberle Williams. 1995. \u201cMapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color,\u201d in K.W. Crenshaw, N. Gotanda, G. Peller, and K. Thomas, eds., Critical Race Theory. New York: New Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>February 19<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<p>No class \u2013 Trinity Days!<\/p>\n<p><u>February 22<sup>nd<\/sup> || Required Lecture<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Kandace Chuh: \u201cBefore and Beyond Defense, or, on the Limits of Academic Freedom\u201d<\/p>\n<p><u>February 26<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 3 \u2013 Place and Identity: Proshansky et al, Anderson, Halberstam, Loos<\/li>\n<li>Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. 1993. \u201cPlain, But Very Neat\u201d and \u201cTo Preserve Her Womanliness\u201d in <em>Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women\u2019s Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s<\/em>. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 9-27, 69-81.<\/li>\n<li>Gieseking, Jen. 2007. \u201c(Re)Constructing Women: Scaled Portrayals of Privilege and Gender Norms on Campus.\u201d <em>Area<\/em> 39 (3):278\u201386.<\/li>\n<li>Baldwin, Davarian. 2015. \u201cUniverCities\u201d at the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute Series at the New York Public Library. <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nypl\/davarian-baldwin\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nypl\/davarian-baldwin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>March 5<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 2 \u2013 Human Perception and Environmental Experience: Milgram &amp; Jodelet, Lynch, Gibson, Sommer, Debord<\/li>\n<li>Aalbers, Manuel B. 2014. \u201cDo Maps Make Geography? Part 1: Redlining, Planned Shrinkage, and the Places of Decline.\u201d <em>ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies<\/em> 13 (4): 525\u201356.<\/li>\n<li>Aalbers, Manuel B. 2014. \u201cDo Maps Make Geography? Part 3: Reconnecting the Trace.\u201d <em>ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies<\/em> 13 (4):586\u201388.<\/li>\n<li>Monmonier, Mark. 1996. \u201cMaps for Political Propaganda\u201d and \u201cMaps, Defense, and Disinformation: Fool Thine Enemy\u201d in <em>How to Lie with Maps<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>March 12<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<p>No class \u2013 spring break!<\/p>\n<p><u>March 19<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 6 \u2013 \u201cPublic\u201d and \u201cPrivate\u201d: Iveson, Mitchell, Zhang, Chauncey, Friedman, Kingwell<\/li>\n<li>Torre, S. 1996. \u201cClaiming the Public Space: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.\u201d In D. Agrest, P. Conway, and L.K. Weisman (eds.), <em>The Sex of Architecture, <\/em>241-250. New York: Harry N. Abrams.<\/li>\n<li>Thoreau, Henry David. 1854. \u201cWhere I Lived, and What I Lived For\u201d in Boston: Ticknor &amp; Fields.<\/li>\n<li>Friedman, Alice T. 2007. \u201cPeople Who Live in Glass Houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, and Phillip Johnson.\u201d In <em>Women and the Making of the Modern House<\/em>, 128\u201359. New Haven: Yale University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Jenkins, Barry. 2016. <em>Moonlight<\/em>. Drama. A24.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>March 26<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<p>In-class Guest Lecturer: journalist Muira McCammon<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 4 \u2013 Power, Subjectivity, and Space: Dovey, Wright, Gilmore, Pred, Graham<\/li>\n<li>Hoback, Cullen. 2013. <em>Terms and Conditions May Apply<\/em>. Documentary, News. Hyrax Films.<\/li>\n<li>Sunstein, Cass R. 2017. \u201cPolarization\u201d and \u201cCitizens\u201d in <em>#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 59-97, 157-175.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>March 26<sup>th<\/sup> || Required Lecture<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Muira McCammon: \u201cThe Digital Stage of Guant\u00e1namo: How the U.S. Military Speaks on Twitter\u201d<\/p>\n<p><u>April 2<sup>nd<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 1 \u2013 Diverse Conceptions of People, Place, and Space: Ruddick, Harvey, Koolhaus, Kwon, Low<\/li>\n<li>Anzald\u00faa, Gloria. 1987\/1997. \u00a0\u201cBorderlands\/La Frontera: The New Mestiza\u201d in Robyn R. Warhol (ed) <em>Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism<\/em>.\u00a0New Brunswick: Rutgers: 765-76.<\/li>\n<li>Yang, Gene Luen. 2008. <em>American Born Chinese<\/em>. New York: Square Fish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>April 9<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<p>No class \u2013 Professor Gieseking is traveling to attend the American Association of Geographers conference.<\/p>\n<p><u>April 16<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 9 \u2013 The Social Production of Space (and Time): Lefebvre, Schivelbusch, Woolf, McKittrick, Smith<\/li>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 10 \u2013 Shifting Perspectives: Optics for Revealing Change and Reworking Space: Hannam, Sheller, &amp; Urry<\/li>\n<li>99% Invisible. 2016. <em>Public Works: Rethinking America\u2019s Transportation Infrastructure<\/em>. 99% Invisible. Accessed January 13, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/public-works-rethinking-americas-transportation-infrastructure\/\">http:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/public-works-rethinking-americas-transportation-infrastructure\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cresswell, Tim. 2011. \u201cMobilities I: Catching Up.\u201d <em>Progress in Human Geography<\/em> 35 (4): 550\u201358.<u><br \/>\n<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>April 20<sup>th<\/sup> || Tentative Field Trip to New York City<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PPSR 7 \u2013 The Urban Experience: Simmel, Jacobs, Simone, Young<\/li>\n<li>O\u2019Hara, Frank. 2001. <em>Lunch Poems<\/em>. San Francisco, Calif: City Lights Publishers.<\/li>\n<li>Gieseking, Jack. 2018 (forthcoming). \u201cWho are the People in Your LGBTQ Neighborhood?: Greenwich Village and Gay Manhattan.\u201d <em>A Queer New York: the Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers, 1983-2008<\/em>. New York: NYU Press.<\/li>\n<li>Schulman, Sarah. 2012. \u201cIntroduction\u201d &amp; \u201cPart I: Understanding the Past.\u201d In <em>The Gentrification of the Mind<\/em>, 1-52. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>April 23<sup>rd<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 11 \u2013 The Spatial Imagination: Said, Sirin &amp; Fine, Winichakul, Feinberg et al, Gibson-Graham, Tschumi<\/li>\n<li>Hurley, M., and Trimarco, J. \u201cMorality and Merchandise: Vendors, Visitors and Police at New York City\u2019s Ground Zero\u201d in <em>Critique of Anthropology, 24<\/em>(1), 51-78.<\/li>\n<li>Kunstler, James Howard. 1994. \u201cCapitals of Unreality\u201d in <em>The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America\u2019s Man-Made Landscape<\/em>. NY: Free Press, 217-244.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>April 30<sup>th<\/sup> <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 10 \u2013 Shifting Perspectives: Optics for Revealing Change and Reworking Space: Foucault, Pulido, Pratt &amp; Rosner<\/li>\n<li><em>PPSR<\/em> 12 \u2013 Democratic Prospects and Possibilities: Saegert, Abu-Lughod, Sorkin, Hart<\/li>\n<li>Atwood, Margaret. 1985. <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>. New York: McClelland &amp; Stewart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>May 11<sup>th<\/sup> @ 3 p.m.<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Final research papers due<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE January 29th Introduction to the course In-class Film: Zemeckis, Robert. 1985. Back to the Future. Universal Pictures. At-home Reading: Cooper Marcus, Clare. 1992. \u201cEnvironmental Memories.\u201d In Place Attachment, edited by Irwin Altman and Setha M. Low, 87\u2013112. New York: Springer. 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