1 GEOG-502 GEOGRAPHY OF NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT

• Main Authors: Office Burnside, Course Precis
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Mackenzie Delta; inuit; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.488.2638; http://www.geog.mcgill.ca/courses/geog502/GEOG502-Outline.pdf

“Northern Development ” is intended to provide students from a variety of disciplines with the opportunity to study and discuss a range of topics and issues relevant to Canadian Inuit today in a graduate-style seminar atmosphere. Thus, discussion and the exchange of ideas will be emphasized, supplemented with several review exercises and a major research paper. The focus throughout the course will be: 1) the linkage (if any) between Inuit tradition and modernity; 2) the relevance of these two concepts to social, economic, and political matters of issue today. The geographic and cultural focus will be from the Mackenzie Delta to Labrador, with occasional comparative side trips to Alaska, Siberia and Greenland. Likewise, the intellectual focus will be broad, drawing from various Geography sub-disciplines and using concepts and ideas from ethnology, economics, political science and (horrors!) perhaps even law. For this reason, the seminar will not be predisposed toward any one theoretical perspective. Instead, an aspect of the seminar will be to discuss methodological and theoretical approaches appropriate to particular topics. In general, a main theme throughout the term will be the compatibility or