TEACHING
 

My teaching and research directly animate one another. I am a cultural geographer who studies environmental planning, design and everyday life. At the heart of my pedagogy is my commitment to more just, inclusive and caring environments. I ask students to consider their own expertise and worldview through geographic concepts we investigate together in class. I help students think geographically about their worlds, and to show them how this might deepen of their work and interests. I love helping students find their own voice through writing.

I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars at the Rhode Island School of Design, University of Glasgow, University of Minnesota, and University of California at Berkeley. Beyond the classroom, I consider academic advising and broader curriculum development to be critical for individual and collective student success. As a colleague and collaborator, I have been involved with a variety of formal and informal learning communities such as field courses, reading groups, research labs, and writing groups.

Courses taught & prepared:

  • Work, Technology & Value: Geographic Perspectives on Design

  • Life in Common

  • Infrastructure & Society

  • Climate Futures: Experiencing our Changing Climate

  • Geographies of Social Difference & Justice

  • Theories of Nature & Society

  • Cities in Film

  • Resilience: Critical Perspectives for Urban Futures

  • Race, Nature & Space

  • Global Urbanisms

  • Qualitative Methods & Ethnography

  • Land, Property & Nature

  • Knowing Places: Map, Image, Text, Story

  • The American Yard

  • Ruins & Rust: The Natures of Deindustrialization

I am always interested in new teaching formats and collaborations. Please be in touch if you want to teach something in a new way or together: ursula.a.lang@gmail.com OR lang0294@umn.edu