Course Outline
opening illustrated lecture

Geography 367, Landscape Analysis: Cultural Settlement Geography of Eau Claire
Instructor: Ingolf Vogeler; Room 260, Phillips Hall. Office Phone: 836-3618; email me at ivogeler@uwec.edu

I. Course Objectives

1) Identify major national house styles from the 1870s to the present.
2) Determine the approximate age of houses, using different kinds of building materials as evidence.
3) Appreciate the difference in house sizes and styles by economic classes.
4) Verify your estimates of age of housing by using the assessor's records.
5) Learn about public historical information.
6) Conduct research on the urban structure of Eau Claire.

1) The course consists of walking tours in different parts of Eau Claire.
Because you will be learning about houses in the field, class attendance is mandatory.
2) a) three assignments: read one item in the Reserve Room; view another in the IMC; and read selected chapters in Conzen;
    b) tour the Chippewa Valley Museum (admission) and Logging Camp (admission);
    c) complete cemetery assignment -- 25% of grade.

3) After the field work, we will have a slide test to make sure you can identify the major house styles -- 35% of the grade.
4) In the last week, students will contribute to an on-going electronic (World Wide Web) community atlas -- 40% of the grade.

III. Course Schedule
9:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M. each day as indicated on the course outline, distributed in class.
Here is a general schedule of course activities and due dates of materials.

Week	Day	Activity and where we will meet
1st	1st	Course objectives, requirements, schedule of class meetings; overview of Eau Claire settlement history and morphology
	2nd	Tour around the university. Meet on the east side of Davies Center.
	3rd	Tour the 3rd Ward. Meet at State and Roosevelt Streets.
	4th	Tour the Water-Lake Street area. Meet at the bank on Water Street. (Reading assignment due -- either Assignment 1 or 2)
2nd	5th	Tour downtown. Meet at City Hall.
	6th	Tour the Main Street area. Meet at University Park. Bring this handout.
	7th	Tour the suburbs by bike. Meet at E. Polk and Patton Street. (Reading assignment due -- either Assignment 1 or 2)
	8th	Slide TEST (Phillips 265) and research project assignment 2 (Phillips 266).
3rd	9th	Discuss individual project progress. (Cemetery assignment due)
	10th	Work on project.
	11th	Review of project.
	12th	Work on project.
	13th	Presentation, evaluation, and revision of projects.

IV. Textbooks (purchase from the UWEC bookstore)

1. Settlement Geography of Eau Claire: Parts of a House
2. Settlement Geography: Architectural Styles

3. Settlement Geography: Housing Characteristics and Historical Developments
4. Eau Claire Landmarks

V. Assignments

Assignment 1 (hand-in)
View the PBS video, America by Design: The House, on Reserve at the UWEC Library.  Ask for Video #7031.
Write a summary of this video; be sure to cover all the major points.  Then relate what you learned to your Eau Claire field experiences. 
How does this video provide you with new insights about Eau Claire’s architecture?  Be creative in this second part.

Assignment 2 (hand-in)
Read the article, "Style for the Zeitgeist: The Stealthy Revival of Historicist Housing Since the Late 1960s," from the Professional Geographer,
Volume 60, Number 2, 2008. Summarize the trends in the North American historic revival house styles since the 1970s:
1) construct a table with decades and the types (names) of styles commonly found in each decade.
2) briefly describe the reasons for this historic house style revival and reflect on why a similar revival occurred in the 1920s and 1930s.

Assignment 3 (do for your own pleasure)
Read the chapters indicated in the above reading list for Michael Conzen, The Making of the American Landscape, for your own pleasure. 
No written assignment is due for this reading!

Assignment 4 (do for yourself to prepare for the test)
Review the materials in the three Settlement Geography of Eau Claire booklets
on the web at http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/w37/367start.htm.

Materials on Reserve in the Main UWEC Library:

• John Maass. The Victorian Home in America. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1972.
  Read through quickly to get an impression of the various styles.
• Richard W. E. Perrin. The Architecture of Wisconsin. Madison The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967.
  Read Chapters 7, 8, 10-13, and 16.
• Marcus Whiffen. American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
  Reference book for house styles -- consult as needed.
• Spinokostof. America By Design. PBS, 1988. Reference book.
• Michael Conzen (ed.). The Making of the American Landscape. Boston Unwin Hyman, 1990.
  Read Chapters Introduction, 5, 14, 15, 16, 17.
• John A. Jokle, Robert W. Bastian and Douglas K. Meyer. Common Houses in America's Small Towns. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
  Reference book.

VI. UWEC Baccalaureate (General Education) goals
This course addressed all five UWEC Baccalaureate (General Education) goals:
 1. Knowledge of Human Culture and the Natural World -- The cultural analysis of landscape, which is what Geography 367, Landscape Analysis: Cultural, does, is fundamentally knowledge based. Facts from both the environmental and social realms at varying geographical scales come together in this distinctive discipline. Lectures, readings, and the extensive field work use facts and numbers to derive knowledge.
 2. Creative and Critical Thinking -- The field research, readings, and projects require critical thinking to determine the nature of cultural landscapes -- how they are constructed, what they mean to different groups, and what humans do with these landscapes.
 3. Effective Communication -- This course relies heavily on photos, maps, and actual field work to examine and reflect on the nature of the cultural landscapes examined. Students learn to use and then present their field-based research using presentational software (e.g., PowerPoint or Dreamweaver Web). The results can be seen on the Geography 367 web site.
 4. Individual and Social Responsibility -- This goal is only partially examined in this course. Here is an example: legal ordinances of historic preservation address the issue of what individual responsibilities do home owners of historic homes have to help preserve the history and appearance of their communities. And likewise, what role do communities, legally and socially, have to "enforce" preservation against the wishes of individuals.
 5. Respect for Diversity among People -- The very essence of cultural landscapes expresses cultural values of diverse groups. How different groups, with varying power, relate to each ultimately results on the actual and perceived cultural landscapes.

Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 3 September 1996; last revised on 15 September 2011.