| Instructor: Professor Michael Johns email: johns@berkeley.edu office phone: 642-0276 office: 509 McCone office hours: |
Class Location: 55A McCone Class Time: W 9:30-12:30 Course control number: 36739 Units: 4 |
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| One 3-hour seminar per week. The class has several goals. One is to give students a sound basis upon which to judge arguments. To do that, they must be able to detect various kinds of biases--some of which are inevitable and fairly innocuous, others more blatant and grotesque; they must be able to see how evidence is used and misused; and they must understand the use and abuse of theory. A second goal is to help students see, think, and write geographically--that is, to adopt, or intensify, a geographical point of view. One might think of this as learning how to interpret our physical and human landscapes, and being able to "see what one writes." A third goal is to introduce students to the tremendous range of geographical inquiry and what is probably the major strength of geography as a form of thought: to wit, making links across space, among peoples, and between humans and the earth. Sequence begins in the Fall. |
