Geography 200B
The Geographical Point of View
Spring 2004



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Instructor: Michael Johns
email: johns@berkeley.edu

office phone: 642-0276
office: 509 McCone Hall
office hours: email for appt.
Class Location: 575 McCone
Class Time: W 9:30 - 12:30

Course control number: 36661
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.


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