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GGH110 Assignment #3

Park University

Fall 2015

Cultural Landscape Analysis:

For this assignment you are to find and select at least four (4) different pictures of key cultural landscapes from the place that you have chosen to research this semester. Your selections should include examples that demonstrate a variety of different aspects of the cultures (both national and ethnic—i.e., dominant and minority) that are part of the place today. Recall, as discussed in class, that cultural landscapes are the visible, tangible evidence of human activity on the surface of the Earth (past and present). As such, they represent the material expressions of the values, beliefs, norms, and institutions of the culture groups that have and are continuing to actively fashion (i.e., re-make) the landscape which they inhabit. As espoused in this course, cultural landscapes offer a primary “text” for cultural geographers to read and interpret in order to understand and explain the past and present (and perhaps even future) aspects of the culture group(s) that occupy a place.

After finding and selecting the cultural landscape photos that you think best represent significant aspects of the cultural geography of the place, copy and paste each of them onto slides in a PowerPoint presentation document. Re-size each photo as needed in order to make it fit on the slide.

Then, below/beside each cultural landscape photo on each slide, write a brief “O.S.A.E., Can You See” analysis for each of these cultural landscapes (see the chapter 4 class presentation).

· First, you should list at least 3 of the things that you Observe in each picture that make it a cultural landscape.

· After making your observations, you should provide a Speculation about what aspects of the culture you think these landscape elements illustrate.

· Then, you should cite a source (i.e., provide some Analysis ) that either confirms or refutes your speculation.

· Finally, you must provide an Evaluation regarding your observations, speculation, and analysis of this cultural landscape—i.e., explain why this information “proves” that this was a valuable example of a cultural landscape from this place to share in this assignment.

Be sure include a “Works Cited” slide with proper bibliographic citations for each of the sources you used for both the pictures and the Analysis citations.