開課教師｜Instructor
陳虹穎
專長領域：都市地理 經濟地理 都市及區域規劃 市場社會科學理論 科學、技術與社會
課程介紹｜Content
Why should we study human geography? Geographic knowledge is not just about maps and locales. Human geography is a key discipline in the social sciences, exploring different forms of life and their spatial relations. With a focus on people, places, and spaces around the world, the theories and concepts of human geography help you develop sensitivity to how we, our spaces, and our ways of living co-shape the environment, society, gender, culture, and politics. This course aims to introduce you to basic concepts and theories about the built environment, with a focus on urban studies - that is, how cities function, develop and sustain themselves.
The course begins with the fundamental role of space, place, and time in our living environment and it will gradually expand into themes of urban, economic, political, environmental, and cultural geographies. The first and third parts will be delivered through a series of lectures and place-based explorations, with a six-week active-learning experiment of 'Translocal Classroom', which is a teaching collaboration with the 'Urban Sociology' class in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Bath. Students will be able to apply geographical concepts, methods, and undertake project-based group learning in the 'Translocal Classroom' and develop their spatial observations across scales and locales.
To summarize, this course will cover four themes:
- Key concepts, explanatory frameworks, and practices in human geography;
- How these geographical theories and concepts inform our everyday life and help us better understand the causes and formations of inequalities;
- Geographical approaches to navigate the diversity of sites, spaces, and places and their representations;
- How are infrastructures, resources, bodies, and natures organized and interacting to create diverse places and ecologies.Note: 本課程獲得111學年度第一學期高教深耕數位互動課程補助計畫之經費支援。本課程修課學生將被要求簽署一份課程錄影同意書，以協助授課內容之錄製並上傳至政大數位課程學習平臺。
This course has received the grant support of the Higher Education Sprout Project. To enroll in this digital-learning course, all students will have to sign a consent form to allow the course to be recorded and uploaded to the learning platform.
課程目標｜Goal
Subject-specific Knowledge
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
- Demonstrate comprehension of a range of human geographical ideas and knowledge of the diversity of human life-worlds, places, and the production of difference and inequality
- Assess, judge and critically evaluate competing intellectual positions
- critically engage with key issues in human geography
Subject-specific Skills
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
- Develop the sensitivity about the roles of spatiality plays in different issues and contexts
- Abstracting and synthesizing information
- Strengthening argumentation ability
Key Skills
- Field site observation
- Oral and written communication
- Contextualizing information
課程進度｜Schedule
| 週次/日期
Week |
課程主題
Topics |
教學活動 Teaching Content |
作業
Assignment |
學習時間
Hours of Learning |
| 1 9/13 |
Course Overview 課程簡介 Class Orientation |
*Warm-Up activity | Getting to know each other | 3 |
| Weekly Reading: Syllabus Extended Reading: Stuart Aitken, Gill Valentine (eds.) (2015) Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, theories, people, and practices, Sage Publishing. Carter, J. C. (2019) Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online, ESRI Press. (Chapter 1: Introduction) |
0 | |||
| Section 1: Basic Concepts in Human Geography | ||||
| 2 9/20 |
Space, Place, and Time | Lecture, Guided reading, and Discussion | Weekly memo | 3 |
| Weekly Reading
Doreen Massey (June 1991) A Global Sense of Place, Marxism Today http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/collections/mt/index_frame.htm Please select one article from this online archive and observe Extended Reading Stuart Aitken, Gill Valentine (eds.) (2015) Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, theories, people, and practices, Sage Publishing. |
4-6 | |||
| 3 9/27 |
Agency, Structure and Everyday Life | Lecture, Guided reading, Group Discussion | 3 | |
| Weekly Readings/ Watching
Stuart Aitken, Gill Valentine (eds.) (2015) Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, theories, people, and practices, Sage Publishing. |
4-6 | |||
| 4 10/4 |
Territory, Politics, and Identity | Lecture, guided reading, and discussion | Weekly memos | 3 |
| Weekly Readings
Carter, J. C. (2019) Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online, ESRI Press. (Chapter 11: Political Geography) Extended reading Stuart Aitken, Gill Valentine (eds.) (2015) Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, theories, people, and practices, Sage Publishing. |
4-6 | |||
| 5 10/11 |
Nature, Culture, and Power
|
Lecture, guided reading, and discussion | Weekly memo
*Each group to discuss/decide a theme of your case study with course instructor |
3 |
| Weekly Readings
Amin, A. and Thrift, N. (2016) Seeing Like a City, Polity Press. (Chapter 2 Shifting the Beginning: The Anthropocene) |
4-6 | |||
| 6 10/18 |
Uneven and Just Geographies
|
Lecture, guided reading, and discussion | Weekly memo
|
3 |
| Weekly Readings
Amin, A. and Thrift, N. (2016) Seeing Like a City, Polity Press. (Chapter 5 Frames of Poverty) Extended Reading Harvey, David (2015) The crisis of planetary urbanization, 25th February. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFkasoah00 |
4-6 | |||
| 7 10/25 |
Doing Urban Research | Lecture, guided reading, and discussion | Grouping and Identifying Common Interests | 3 |
| Weekly Readings
Phillips, R. and Johns, J. (2012) Fieldwork for Human Geography, Thousand Oaks: Sage. (Chapter 1. Getting the Most Out of Fieldwork) Extended Resource ArcGIS StoryMaps https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-storymaps/overview |
4-6 | |||
| Section 2: Translocal Classroom/ Co-teaching with Dr. Alejandro De Coss | ||||
| 8 11/1 |
Guest Talk: Geographies of Sexuality and Mobility
|
Lecture, guided reading, and discussion | Project idea proposed (2 pages proposal/work plan) | 3 |
| TBC | 4-6 | |||
| 9 11/8 |
Mid-Term Week:
Site Visit |
Group-based site visits | 0 | |
| Tentative themes: Gender and the City; Urban Geopolitics; Urban Transport & Mobility; Urban and Suburbanization; Urban Economy; Urban (Sub)Cultures | 7-9 | |||
| 10 11/15 |
Urban citizenships: formal, substantive, insurgent | Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion | Group-based site visits | 3 |
| TBC | 4-6 | |||
| 11 11/22 |
Urban political ecologies: resources, infrastructures, and urban life | Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion | Group-based site visits | 3 |
| TBC | 4-6 | |||
| 12 11/29 |
Smart cities, smart urbanism, and the promise of the digital | Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion | Weekly memos
|
3 |
| TBC | 4-6 | |||
| 13 12/6
|
Translocal Classroom Showcases | Group Presentation & Discussion | Group Presentation & ArcGIS StoryMap
|
3 |
| 4-6 | ||||
| Section 3: Diverse Geographies | ||||
| 14 12/13
|
Gender, Place, and Cultural Geographies | Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion | Weekly memos
|
3 |
| Weekly Readings
Stuart Aitken, Gill Valentine (eds.) (2015) Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, theories, people, and practices, Sage Publishing. (Chapter 4 Feminist Geographies of Difference, Relation, and Construction) |
4-6 | |||
| 15 12/20 |
Human vs. Animal Geographies | Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion | Weekly memos
|
3 |
| Weekly Reading
Stuart Aitken, Gill Valentine (eds.) (2015) Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, theories, people, and practices, Sage Publishing. (Chapter 7 Human Animal) |
4-6 | |||
| 16 12/27 |
Developmental/ Post-colonial Geographies | Lecture, Guided reading, Discussion | Weekly memos
|
3 |
| Weekly Reading
Stuart Aitken, Gill Valentine (eds.) (2015) Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, theories, people, and practices, Sage Publishing. (Chapter 11 Actor-Network Theory, Networks, and Relational Geographies) |
4-6 | |||
| 17 1/3 |
Take-Home Final Exam | N/A | 3 | |
| 4-6 | ||||
| 18 1/10 |
End-of-Term | |||
上課形式｜Activities
講述Lecture
討論Discussion
小組活動Group activity
數位學習E-learning
其他：Others:
評分標準｜Grading
Course Requirements
- Proofread your assignment: Students should complete the individual and group assignments on time and submit them to designated portal/platform. You should reserve time to double-check the spelling and grammar before submission.
- No Plagiarism: Plagiarism is unacceptable. Any accidental or willful appropriation of others’ work with no citation will be penalized and reported to the administration.
Evaluation Criteria
1. Class Participation: 20% - Pre-class readings, weekly assignments, commitment to teamwork, and class attendance. Submit your weekly assignment by 5 pm on Tuesday before the class.
2. Team works: 45% (15% from peer grading) Collective work and performance in theme-based team work. Each group member shares equally the responsibility of their collective work.
3. Take-Home Final Exam: 35%
參考書目｜Readings
Amin, A. and Thrift, N. (2016) Seeing Like a City, Polity Press.
*Stuart Aitken, Gill Valentine (2015) Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, Theories, People and Practices (Second Edition), London: Sage Publishing.
Phillips, R. and Johns, J. (2012) Fieldwork for Human Geography, Thousand Oaks: Sage.
