Geography

The course introduces students to the concepts, terminology, and methods related to analysis of spatial and temporal patterns in digital data. The course discusses and analyzes how patterns can be identified, measured, and tested statistically through a series of lectures, hands-on exercises, and student presentations.

The course provides an interdisciplinary overview of Irish society from the Restoration of the Established Church and monarchy in 1660 to Vatican II, c.1960, focusing on social, cultural, and political change, so as to further understanding of the shaping of modern Ireland. The course introduces students to the variety and complexities of the lives of people who lived in Ireland drawing on themes in cultural, political, and historical geographies, and including analysis of class, religion, place, patronage, politics, and territorial organization, the impact of landlordism and landscape transformation, the distribution of secular and religious institutions, and nation-building and state formation.

This course examines the relationships among personal and global geographies of environmental, economic and socio-cultural change. Using a variety of examples from New Zealand and the world, it illustrates the connections between local places and global issues.

This course examines the idea that the contemporary production of urban space restricts the rights of many urban dwellers to inhabit, develop, and otherwise shape the cities in which they live and work. Drawing especially on the work of David Harvey and Henri Lefebvre (alongside other "metromarxists") the course contrasts the way that cities serve the interests of financial powers, developers, and property owners with the forms of urban exclusion, alienation, and marginalization experienced by those who are oppressed by virtue of their class, ethnicity, sexuality, age, or gender. Though consideration of different struggles for urban space, the course explores important questions about how people should make claims to urban space, and explores the political potential of the demand for "the right to the city."