Summer 2021 - GEOG 387 D100
Geography and Gender (4)
Class Number: 2577
Delivery Method: Remote
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
May 12 – Aug 9, 2021: Mon, 2:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Aug 16, 2021
Mon, 11:59–11:59 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Melora Koepke
mkoepke@sfu.ca
Skype: melora.koepke
Office Hours: Office Hours: Instructor and TA will be available one hour/week on Zoom or by appointment.
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Prerequisites:
At least 45 units, including GEOG 100.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Geographical perspectives on gender and sexuality. This course investigates feminist theory in geography and its analysis of home, city, nation, state, global economy, colonialism, and migration.
COURSE DETAILS:
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION
Geographical perspectives on gender and sexuality. This course investigates feminist theory in geography and its analysis of home, city, nation, state, global economy, colonialism, and migration.
COURSE DETAILS
Welcome! This course introduces students to feminist ways of thinking about and understanding space and spatiality. It explores the potential for feminist concepts to transform how we understand and experience gender and other forms of social differentiation such as race, class and ability across diverse and various places, spaces, scales and contexts. While feminist and gender-based geographies are broad and contested fields, the course focuses in particular on conceptual frameworks that emphasize the affective, performative, and situated character of gender and other forms of social differentiation. We will spend the first few weeks engaging with course materials that introduce various elements of feminist social, political and geographical theory, and then develop these through presentation, exploration and analysis of various empirical examples and specific contexts across various scales from the global to the national, the urban to the intimate. Course materials will consist of both scholarly materials and other media such as blogs, documentary films and podcasts. Students will expected to engage with their peers and the instructor through various participatory modes practices of collective study, scholarly analysis and creative engagement, and to develop their own analytical and communicative abilities through various individual and group assignments.
COURSE Delivery for summer 2021
The course will be embedded on CANVAS.
Lectures will be synchronous, but will be recorded and uploaded for asynchronous participation in the event that students are unable to attend. Weekly lecture sessions (~40-60 mins/week) will be uploaded to Youtube as video/audio files after lecture period each week.
Tutorials are synchronous and will be conducted via moderated discussions and group exercises on Zoom. There will also be options for students to participate in asynchronous discussion boards if they are unable to attend synchronously.
There will be no tutorials in the first week of class.
Grading
- • Participation (Tutorial participation; asynchronous discussions; peer review) 15%
- • Short assignments (3 x 15%) 45%
- • Digital Exhibit (group project) 20%
- • Final Project OR Final Exam (take-home) 20%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Course materials will consist of academic journal articles, excerpts from books (nonfiction/fiction/poetry) media articles and blog posts, podcasts, short and feature length documentaries that will be available on CANVAS or via the SFU Library course reserves.
REQUIRED READING
Materials will be posted in Canvas and available from the library course reserves.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
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Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html
TEACHING AT SFU IN SUMMER 2021
Teaching at SFU in summer 2021 will be conducted primarily through remote methods, but we will continue to have in-person experiential activities for a selection of courses. Such course components will be clearly identified at registration, as will course components that will be “live” (synchronous) vs. at your own pace (asynchronous). Enrollment acknowledges that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes. To ensure you can access all course materials, we recommend you have access to a computer with a microphone and camera, and the internet. In some cases your instructor may use Zoom or other means requiring a camera and microphone to invigilate exams. If proctoring software will be used, this will be confirmed in the first week of class.
Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need class or exam accommodations, including in the current context of remote learning, are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112).