週次/日期
Week
|
課程主題
Topics
|
教學活動
Teaching Content
|
作業
Assignment
|
學習時間
Hours of Learning
|
Section 1: Basic Concepts in Human Geography
|
1
2/18
|
Course Overview
課程簡介
- Class Orientation
- Introducing Key Concepts in Geography: Space, time, place, scale, landscape
|
*Warm-Up activity
|
Getting to know each other and the course
|
3
|
Weekly Reading:
This Syllabus
Danny Dorling & Carl Lee (2016) Geography: Ideas in Profile, London: Profile Books (Introduction)
Extended Reading:
Society & Space website https://www.societyandspace.org/
Place Journal website https://placesjournal.org/explore-places/asia/page/2/
|
0
|
2
2/25
|
Space, Place, and Time
|
Lecture, Guided reading, and Discussion
|
Assignment 1: Weekly Memo
|
3
|
Weekly Reading
Massey, Doreen (June 1991) A Global Sense of Place, Marxism Today https://www.projectenportfolio.nl/images/6/69/Massey_-Global_Sense_of_Place_-_1994-.pdf
Mathews, Gordon (2011) Ghetto at the Center of the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapter 1. Place)
Extended Reading
Stuart Aitken, Gill Valentine (eds.) (2015) Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, theories, people, and practices, Sage Publishing.
(Chapter 2: Positivist Geography)
|
4-6
|
3
3/4
|
Territory, Politics, and Identity
|
Lecture, Guided reading, Group Discussion
|
|
3
|
Weekly Readings
Jones, Andrew (2012) Human Geography: The Basics, Taylor & Francis Book (Ch.4 States, Nations, and Cultures)
Delaney, David (2019) Territory: a short introduction, UK: John Wiley & Sons. (Chapter 1: Entering the Territory of Territory)
Extended reading
Delaney, David (2019) Territory: a short introduction, UK: John Wiley & Sons. (Chapter 2: DISCIPLINING AND UNDISCIPLINING TERRITORY)
|
4-6
|
4
3/11
|
Nature, Culture, and Power
|
Lecture, guided reading, and discussion
|
|
3
|
Weekly Readings
Jones, Andrew (2012) Human Geography: The Basics, Taylor & Francis Book (Ch.3 Development & Environment)
Extended reading
|
4-6
|
5
3/18
|
Agency, Structure, and Everyday Life
|
|
|
|
|
|
Section 2: Geographies of Sustainability
|
6*
3/25
|
Guest talk│Terroir: Locational philosophy of taste and sustainability (with Guest Lecturer: Dr. Huang-Wei Chang)
|
Lecture, class activity, and discussion
|
Initial grouping activity
*Each group to discuss/decide a theme of your case study with the course instructor
|
3
|
Weekly Readings
Bowen, Sarah (2010) Embedding Local Places in Global Spaces: Geographical Indications as a Territorial Development Strategy, Rural Sociology 75(2), 2010, pp. 209–243
Extended Resource
Robert T. Valgenti (2022) Ungrounding Terroir, East Asian Journal of Philosophy Vol.1, n.2., pp.41-58.
|
4-6
|
7
4/1
|
Ethics of Urban Life (i): Open vs. Closed Cities
|
Self-Guided Field Observation
|
|
3
|
Weekly reading
Sennett, Richard (2018/ 2023) Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Yale University Press. (Ch. 3-4)
|
4-6
|
8
4/8
|
Ethics of Urban Life (ii): Cities - Smart or Stupid?
|
Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion
|
Workshop Assignment 2: Profiling _____ - Write about the Place You Once Lived
|
3
|
Weekly Readings
Sennett, Richard (2018/ 2023) Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Yale University Press. (Ch. 5-6)
Extended Reading
Sadowski J. (2020) Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking over the World: Edited by Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Greenfield, Adam (2017) Radical technologies: the design of everyday life, New York: Verso Books.
|
4-6
|
9
4/15
|
Mid-Term Exam Week
|
Take-home exam (proposal-oriented questions)
|
Online/E-mail Submission (questions are designed for integrating HG knowledge with your tentative proposal)
|
0
|
Take-home Exam (Exam Paper + Preparing your 1-page project idea to the class)
|
7-9
|
10
4/22
|
Energy & Resource Geographies
|
Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion
|
In-Class Workshop: Mapping Extractive Geographies
|
3
|
Weekly Readings
Bridge, Gavin (2009). “Material Worlds: Natural Resources, Resource Geography, and the Material Economy.” Geography Compass, 3(3), 1217–1244.
Extended Listening
Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money
|
4-6
|
Section 3: Translocal Classroom
|
11*
4/29
|
Doing Urban Research (with Guest Lecturer: Dr. Huang-Wei Chang)
|
Lecture, Field Visit, Group Discussion
|
In-Class: Group-based Exploration, Practicing Field Observation Notes
|
|
Weekly Readings
Phillips, R. and Johns, J. (2012) Fieldwork for Human Geography, Thousand Oaks: Sage. (Chapter 1. Getting the Most Out of Fieldwork)
Task before Week 13
Visiting any of these places: Traditional markets, weekend flea markets, shopping malls with provided instruction
Extended Resource
Sennett, Richard (2018/ 2023) Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Yale University Press. (Ch. 7)
ArcGIS StoryMaps https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-storymaps/overview
洪伯邑、陳懷萱、黃舒楣、黃書緯、呂欣怡、陳怡伃 (2021) 田野敲敲門：現地研究基本功。台北：國立臺灣大學出版中心。
|
4-6
|
12*
5/6
|
Urban Forms and Its Politics (with Guest Lecturer: Dr. Huang-Wei Chang)
|
*Potential urban site observation, with post-visit discussions
|
Bring your Pilot Fieldnotes to the class
|
3
|
Weekly Readings
Sennett, Richard (2018/ 2023) Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Yale University Press. (Ch. 8-9)
Extended Readings
Graham, Steve (2016) Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers, NY: Verso.
|
4-6
|
13
5/13
|
Gender, Place, and Culture
|
Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion
|
|
|
Weekly Readings
Pain, Rachel & Smith, Susan (2008). Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life
Extended Reading
Cresswell, Tim (1996). In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression.
|
|
14
5/20
|
Political Space, Society and Culture (i)
|
Lecture, discussion, self-guided field visits
|
Assignment 4: Profiling _____ - Write about the Place You Live In
|
3
|
Weekly Readings
Sennett, Richard (2018/ 2023) Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Yale University Press. (Ch. 8-9)
Extended Readings
Graham, Steve (2016) Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers, NY: Verso.
|
4-6
|
15
5/27
|
Political Space, Society and Culture (ii)
|
Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion
|
Group-based, self-guided site visits, field notes
|
3
|
Weekly Readings
Sennett, Richard (2018/ 2023) Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Yale University Press. (Ch. 8)
Disciplinary Society https://pressbooks.pub/surveillancestudies/chapter/disciplinary-society/
|
|
16
6/3
|
Final Report Preparation (No Class)
|
|
*Video/ Poster/or other alternative outputs of Your Fieldwork Report. Selected group will be invited to present at June 6th USR Fest@ICI)
|
3
|
|
4-6
|
17
6/10
|
Final Class Presentation + Submission of Final Report
|
|
|
3
|
|
4-6
|
18
6/17
|
End-of-Term/ Flexible Learning (No Class)
|
|
|
|