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Greetings  students, Earn 8 units in a month! UC Davis Summer Abroad is currently accepting enrollments for 2020 summer programs ( 30+ programs in 22 different countries  to choose from!)  Below are some unique programs that may be of interest to you.     Open to all UCB students (freshman through graduating seniors) UCB summer financial aid applies UC Davis courses, led by UC Davis faculty Courses taught in English Create an online interest profile  to receive email updates about programs that interest you (it only takes a minute!) Visit the program webpage links below for details on fees, activities, courses and more.  Spain , Housing and Urbanism in Barcelona Courses: Community and Regional Development 153B & 198 or Landscape Architecture 191 & 198 Discover the many lessons we can take home from Barcelona on housing development and neighborhood regeneration efforts. Bhutan—GIS in the Land of the Thunder Dragon Cours...

CED students: check out this SP17 short-term course! ENV DES198/298: Communication Graphics Media, Exhibits & Brand in Cities, Architecture & Landscape Mondays, 9-12 from  February 27 to March 20   Instructor: Keith Helmetag. Cal ‘75; Founding principal C&G Partners CCN 28776 (undergraduate) / 28791 (graduate) This course will be structured as a lecture and studio class that  explores how communication graphics are integrated into places and spaces to tell stories ;  celebrate individuals; establish and transform the cultural and natural fabric of our built and digital world.  Lectures on memorials, gardens and industrial heritage will recount history and noteworthy precedent global projects as well as behind-the-scenes insight about designing communication graphics for Yankee Stadium and 9/11 Memorial to name a few. Studio assignments will explore communication graphics projects seen on campus, in the Bay Area or in Bancroft Library’s ar...

MONDAY NOVEMBER 28TH RECEPTION,  5:00PM - 6:00PM  WURSTER GALLERY PANEL + DISCUSSION,  6:00PM - 8:00PM  112 WURSTER AUDITORIUM GUESTS :: SARA DALEIDEN  Founder + Director of MKE <-> LAX KOFI BOONE Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture North Carolina State Universtity College of Design AUSTIN ALLEN Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Lousiana State University College of Art & Design RESPONDENTS :: MALO HUTSON Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning College of Environmental Design ALMA DU SOLIER Landscape Designer MODERATOR :: WALTER HOOD Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design College of Environmental Design

Cross-listed as Geography C160A, Environmental Design C169A, and American Studies C112A This course introduces ways of seeing and interpreting American histories and cultures, as revealed in the everyday built surroundings of homes, highways, farms, factories, stores, recreation areas, small towns, city districts, and entire regions. The course encourages students to read landscapes as records of past and present social relations, and to speculate for themselves about the meanings of material culture. Registration for a section is required by Telebears—but NOTE—Telebears section assignments are tentative. Final section placement will be determined by cards filled out, in person, on the first day of class.  Lectures: Tu/Th 11-12:30 in Wurster Auditorium 112 Wurster Hall Sections: Tu 1-2, Wed 1-2, Th 3-4, Th 4-5

Travel to Hong Kong and analyze how cities infrastructures, old and new, are adapting to cultural, environmental, and global changes. There will be two information sessions in 901 (top of the Wurster Tower) at 6:00pm February 24th and February 26th at 1:00pm Deadline: March 3rd, 2014 email: summerabroad@berkeley.edu

Course Title: Post-Socialist Space (Geography 170) Instructor: Dr. Melanie Feakins When: Monday & WEdnesdays 12:30-2:00pm Location: 145 McCone Hall Course Description: The 'Fall of the Wall' in Berlin in 1989 and the USSR break-up in 1991 were events that created unfathomable chaos and inimitable circumstances for transformation of modern developed industrial societies. Using a variety of source materials (books, newspaper articles, academic articles, pictures, media representations, films, policy recommendations, ethnographic accounts) we will examine the changes that have been taking place in East Center Europe and the Former Soviet Union in the post-socialist period. Among the topics dealt with in the class are: territoriality and new citizenship regimes, borders and new forms of exclusion, urban transformations (memory and its destructions, creation of 'real-estate' new forms of intensification/abandonment, international architectural competitions), urban m...