Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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CPEC 253 - Future Cities: Speculations, Countermappings, and Narratives of Possibility (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Cities are crossroads where many different people, industries, and cultural activities interact. But cities, including Baltimore, have also been places of great division and inequity. As so many cities attempt to bring new opportunities to their citizens, and create communities that thrive, not just for some but for all, they face a classic conundrum in creating social change: What are the forms of imagination that can actually produce new possibilities? and not just more of the same, but in different packaging?
This class will look at the strategies of imagination that map, learn from, and rearrange information into the possible. Utilizing speculative thinking and countermapping, studying social science and creative text, we will map, and experiment with such new narrative practices, using examples from both the global arena and the Baltimore metropolitan area. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Hopper.
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