SPRING 2024 WCSC SEMINAR (WCSC 387 & SOC 375): All participants
Week 1 (1/11) - What is this place? (RS&I)
Week 2 (1/18) – Social and economic change in the urban landscape (RS&I)
Week 3 (1/25) – Geographies of race and inequality (RS&I)
Week 4 (2/1) – A crisis of unaffordable housing (CD)
Week 5 (2/8) – Gentrification and the commodification of race and history (RS&I)
Week 6 (2/15) – Community wealth building and community economic control (CD)
Week 7 (2/22) – Food apartheid and food justice (CD)
Week 8 (2/29) – Mapping place: Neighborhoods and communities (RS&I)
Week 9 (3/14) – What kind of problem is poverty? (CD)
Week 10 (3/21) – Presentations of CD organization profiles and community need maps (CD)
Week 11 (3/28) – Community organizing (RS&I)
Week 12 (4/4) – Health care access and public health (CD)
Week 13 (4/11) – Schools and education (CD)
Week 14 (4/18) – Place identity and claims to space AND Writing workshop (RS&I)
Week 15 (4/23, TUESDAY @ 3pm) – Presentations of neighborhood case studies
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Folder Assignments and rubrics
Forum News forum
Assignment Cultural event reflection