Date

Topic & Reading

 

1/22

Welcome to the course

 

1/29

History I

 

CLASS WILL MEET IN THE BYRD SEMINAR ROOM (318) OF THE HARRISON INSTITUTE.

 

Wilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2000.

 

2/5

History II

Wilford (continued)

 

2/12

Theory I

Wood, Denis, and John Fels. The Power of Maps. Mappings. New York: Guilford Press, 1992.

 

Respondents: Karina Bishop, Kristin Hawkins, Rachael Jaye, Lauren Kenworthy

 

2/19

Theory II

 

Selections from Harley, J. B., and Paul Laxton. The New Nature of Maps: Essays in The History Of Cartography. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

 

Recommended Reading (Toolkit):

 

Hoy, David, ÒJacques DerridaÓ and ÒMichel FoucaultÓ by Mark Philp and Quentin Skinner in The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.  41-64, 65-82.

 

Respondents: Laura Brown, Stephanie Grebas, Sarah Lewis, Andrew Mueller

 

2/26

Close Readings of Maps

 

Respondents: Aline Anspach, Emily Walton

 

3/5

Spring Break

 

3/12

Context I

 

Thongchai, Winichakul. Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo Body of a Nation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.

 

Respondents: Marissa DÕOrazio, Erin Fox, Stephanie Grebas, Kristin Hawkins, Candace Rardon

 

3/19

Visit to Special Collections

Respondents: Megan Andrukonis, Dominick Rolle

 

3/26

Context II

 

Mundy, Barbara E. The Mapping of New Spain: Iindigenous Cartography and the Maps of the ÔRelaciones geogr‡ficas.Õ Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

 

Respondents: Laura Brown, Marissa DÕOrazio, Dominick Rolle, Alice MacQueen, Andew Mueller

 

 

4/2

From Maps to Mapping I

Cosgrove, Denis. "Maps, Mapping, Modernity: Art and Cartography in the Twentieth Century," Imago Mundi 57/1 (2005).  (Toolkit)

 

Harmon, Katharine A. You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination. 1st ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.

 

Wood, Denis. "Map Art," Cartographic Perspectives: Journal of the American Cartographic Society. 53 (Winter 2006). (Toolkit)

 

 

Respondents: Megan Andrukonis, Aline Anspach, Karina Bishop, Lauren Kenworthy

 

4/9

 

From Maps to Mapping II

 

Turchi, Peter. Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer. San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press, 2004.

 

Respondents: Erin Fox, Rachael Jaye, Candace Rardon, Tim Stanonik, Emily Walton

 

4/16

Mapping the Next Millenium

 

WeÕll be meeting in Alderman to hear a presentation about Geopgraphical Information Systems (GIS).  Details forthcoming.

 

Respondents: Sarah Lewis, Alice MacQueen, Tim Stanonik

 

 

4/23

TBA

 

4/30

Presentations of Final Projects

 

5/1

Final Papers Due