GEOG 595

Spring 2012 All Classes

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Advanced Studies in Geography

Credit: 0 TO 8 hours.

Seminar and directed individual investigation of selected problems or regions; designed to develop ability to conduct independent investigation. Scheduled seminars are detailed in each term's Class Schedule. All students are required to register each term in section Z (the departmental colloquium) for 0 hours in addition to other GEOG 495 work which may be selected.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated.

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GEOG 595 class schedule data for spring 2012
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10239	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
57441	Lecture-Discussion	ACH	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	211 Davenport Hall	Chhatre, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Development: History, ideology, practice and Prospects We will read major thinkers on development from within and outside Geography, including a historical perspective on the evolution of the concept from colonial times to the present. Students will explore major theories of development, including but not limited to modernization, dependency, free trade, and their alternatives. We will read major critics of development practice ? Richard Peet, David Harvey, Akhil Gupta, David Mosse, Dani Rodrik, Robert Chambers, Michael Watts, Amartya Sen, James Scott, etc. The course will also introduce students to some foundational readings on state formation, power and resistance, colonialism, and political economy, as they relate to the idea of development. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Graduate class standing. Not intended for Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
56631	Lecture-Discussion	MOB	2:00PM -4:50PM	T	1024 Foreign Languages Building	Cidell, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Graduate Seminar: Mobilities Section Info: The new mobilities paradigm in the social sciences takes as its starting point the prevalence of movement and travel in our contemporary society, leading to new objects of study, new questions for research, new methods, and perhaps even new ways of knowing. Through studying automobility, aeromobility, velomobility, and other social complexes of people, technology, and infrastructure, we will explore the shift towards a mobile society, including the corresponding immobilities or fixities of some people and objects. Readings will draw from geography, sociology, and related disciplines.