| Date |
Due Today |
In Class |
| Jan. 12 |
• This American Life: "Mapping" |
• Course introduction |
| Jan. 19 |
• Ninjalicious: Access All Areas
• One of the following documentaries:
• Wonder: Undercity
• Sendrowski: Urbex
• Silent UK: Crack the Surface (both episodes)
• Response 1 |
• Access All Areas
• Urban exploration documentaries |
| Jan. 26 |
• Moretti: Graphs, Maps, Trees
• Rhetmap.org
• McClain and Murray: "An Analysis of Job Listings"
• Response 2 |
• Graphs, Maps, Trees
• "An Analysis of Job Listings" |
| Feb. 2 |
• Rickert: Ambient Rhetoric (part 1)
• Philo: "Foucault's Geography"
• Response 3 |
• Ambient Rhetoric
• "Foucault's Geography"
|
| Feb. 9 |
• Rickert: Ambient Rhetoric (part 2)
• Boyle: "Pervasive Citizenship"
• Response 4 |
• Ambient Rhetoric (cont.)
• "Pervasive Citizenship" |
| Feb. 16 |
• Rice: Digital Detroit (chapters 1 & 2)
• Tirrell: "A Geographical History" (with videos)
• Response 5 |
• Digital Detroit
• "A Geographical History"
• Field trip: Farmin' Brands |
| Feb. 23 |
• Rice: Digital Detroit (chapters 3–5)
• McNely: "Instagram, Geocaching"
• Response 6 |
• Digital Detroit (cont.)
• "Instagram, Geocaching"
• Field trip: Carolina Beach State Park |
| Mar. 2 |
|
• Exam |
| Mar. 9 |
|
No Class |
| Mar. 16 |
• Reynolds: Geographies of Writing
• Rivers: "Geocomposition in Public Rhetoric"
• Response 7 |
• Geographies of Writing
• "Geocomposition in Public Rhetoric" |
| Mar. 23 |
• Debord: "Theory of the Dérive"
• 99% Invisible: "Unseen City"
• Response 8 |
• Dérive
• Abstract drafts
• Field trip: Hugh MacRae Park picnic shelter #1 |
| Mar. 30 |
• Manaugh: A Burglar's Guide to the City (chapters 1–3)
• Farman: "Creative Misuse as Resistance"
• Response 9 |
• A Burglar's Guide to the City
• "Creative Misuse as Resistance"
• Field trip: Greenfield Lake Amphitheater |
| Apr. 6 |
• Manaugh: A Burglar's Guide to the City (chapters 4–7)
• Kalin and Frith: "Wearing the City"
• Response 10 |
• A Burglar's Guide to the City (cont.)
• "Wearing the City"
• Emily & Marisa |
| Apr. 13 |
|
No Class |
| Apr. 20 |
• Johnson: The Ghost Map
• Swarts: "Mobility and Composition"
• Conference Paper draft |
• Draft workshop
• The Ghost Map
• "Mobility and Composition"
|
Apr. 27 (optional)
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May 2
(3:00pm) |
• Abstract (with CFP), Conference Paper |
• Presentations |