Social Justice and the Urban Landscape
Examines cultural, social, and political interactions in US urban landscapes like parks and streets as sites for social justice struggles.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Understand how urban landscapes shape struggles for social justice
Acquire and apply skills with which to analyze the social dimensions of urban landscapes
Recognize and understand how specific design features influence social relations
Describe how landscape design styles and ideologies are constitutive of social relations through time and how these continue to operate in contemporary urban landscapes
Apply concepts and theories of social justice to analyze urban landscape design in terms of race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, and socioeconomic status, among others
Apply visual methodologies to reveal the meaning of design drawings, photographs, art as well as assemblages such as landscapes, websites, news articles, videos among others
Apply discourse theory to the web of landscape representations to explain struggles for social justice
Source: UW Guide
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).
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Topics
- Cultural, social, and political interactions in urban public spaces
- Landscapes as sites of social justice struggle
- Landscape design styles and ideologies
- Social justice frameworks: race, ethnicity, gender, class
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- Analyze the social dimensions of urban landscapes
- Apply social justice concepts to analyze urban landscape design
- Apply visual methodologies to interpret design artifacts
- Apply discourse theory to landscape representations
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