Course overview
This course is about cultural geography: students will advance their understanding of how space and place are
not only physical, but also cultural sites of life. Students will further develop their knowledge of identities as
situated in place and in historical, social, political, and visual contexts. Students will increase their understanding
of how different theories, coupled with relevant research tools and skills can be used to research space and
place. Topics such as going to festivals, visiting past disaster or trauma sites, or belonging to online
communities will be examined to show how these places mean different things, locally and globally, and each
comes with distinguishing, but largely invisible, stories. This course aligns with the program’s focus on learning
about a range of cultural practices and how they change over time with the use of qualitative research
methodologies such as sensory ethnography to name a few.
- Approaching Space and place
- Spatialising practices
- Cultures of space and place
Course learning outcomes
- Identify developed cultural and conceptual readings of place locally, nationally and globally
- CLO2: Critically analyse representations and meanings produced about place in specific cultural sites
- Communicate an understanding of theoretical ideas in the study of space and place
- CLO4: Demonstrate an understanding of relevant research practices by developing a case study of a selected place
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 25976
Section LE01
Size 50
Available 50
Class number 25978
Section SE01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 25977
Section SE02
Size 30
Available 30
Magill
Class number 25979
Section LE01
Size 50
Available 50
Class number 25981
Section SE01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 25980
Section SE02
Size 30
Available 30
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