Cultural Landscapes:
Slide-Lecture Topics & Readings

You are responsible for all bold links, which are mostly UWEC web pages; you are not responsible for non-bold links, which are mostly at off-campus web sites. Optional: cultural landscapes around the world (UNESCO)
 

 

 Slide-Lecture Topics

Assigned Readings  
(pp. refer to Zelinsky; Names refer to the Supplemental Readings (handout); Chapter refers chapter from my book)

1)

  Introduction   
  1) Components of the Cultural Landscape Chapter 1; pp. 3-14, 20-22, 33-64;
  2) Culture, Place, and Landscape Concepts   Lewis; 109-120,139-140

2)

   Utopian Landscapes (do self test #1) 
  1) Extinct Ones: Shakers, Oneida, Zoarist, Amana pp. 61-64;
  2) Practicing Ones: Amish, Old Order Mennonites, Hutterites pp. 138-139, 120-122
Do self test #2 before FIRST TEST  

3)

   Religious Landscapes
  1) Mormons in Utah pp. 173-177;
  2) Roman Catholics in Quebec pp. 22-33, 94-100;
  3) Roman Catholics in central Minnesota Rinschede, Widdis, Mercer

4)

   Landscapes of Racism (do self test #3)
  1) Indian Reservations study maps on pp. 30-31;    
  2) Japanese Internment Camps pp. 14-20;
  3) African-Americans in the South pp. 29-31, 162-164;
  4) U.S.-Mexican Borderlands pp. 29, 31, 130-131, 162-164
Do self test #4 before SECOND TEST

5)

   Social Geography of U.S. Cities: Chicago  Ethnicity, Race, and Class; pp. 128-129; Kirchherr

6)

   Placeless Landscapes (do self test #5)
  1) Central Business Districts pp. 177-185
  2) Commercial Strips and Suburbia  

7)

   Sin & Sexist Landscapes (do self test #6)
  1) Las Vegas: Gambling and Prostitution pp. 136-139; Riccio
  2) New Orleans: Southern  "Hospitality"  

8)

   Real Fantasy Landscapes (do self test #7)
  1) Hollywood: Movie Sets and Movie Star Homes  Chapter 6; pp. 134-138; Winsberg;
  2) Disneyland: the "Happiest" Place on Earth pp. 129-134; Rapping
  3) Frontier Myth and Cowboy Culture  
Do self test #8 before FINAL EXAM         Also provide an evaluation of the course and me.

 

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Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 1 June 1996; last revised on 24 September 2008