0504-493 - Maps,Spaces,and Places

Institution:

Rochester Institute of Technology

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Description:

This interdisciplinary course emphasizes visual literacy and spatial thinking through conventional and digital maps, and in diverse novels, poetry and films. We rethink space as a dynamic context for making history, raising questions about authority and organizing social/communal life. Requirements include an oral presentation, brief online responses, and a final project, such as "Reading Rochester/RIT as Text," orienteering, digital or picture mapresearch, or a GIS project. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent). Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rit.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 475-2411

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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