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Cartographic Curiosity
Promoting Interdisciplinary Thinking
in General Education through Maps
Dr. Joy Santee
Associate Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric
McKendree University
Kids These Days...
Critical Visual Literacy
Interdisciplinarity
Problem Solving
Challenges of Critical Visual Literacy
natesilver: So to return to my earlier point: What tangible difference does it make if Clinton wins
nationally by 7 points and wins Arizona by a point, versus when she wins nationally by 7 points but loses
Arizona by a point?
harry: People look to the map to understand how big the victory was. We have a winner-take-all system.
micah: Yeah, if the map everyone sees on Nov. 9 is covered in blue, doesn’t that make a difference?
clare.malone: I think it’s a reasonable goal for them to want to/try to win at least one unexpected state. A
spot of blue in a sea of red can be a striking visual that people walk away with.
natesilver: So should they aim for states that are physically larger because they’re more impressive on the
map?
Challenges of Critical Visual Literacy
clare.malone: Hah, yes.
natesilver: So Alaska then?
clare.malone: No.
natesilver: Or not Alaska because it gets shrunken down?
harry: Is this a Mercator problem? I don’t know maps.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/should-clinton-play-for-an-electoral-college-landslide/?ex_cid=2016-
forecast
Challenges of Interdisciplinarity
Challenges of Contemporary
Problem Solving
Complex problems in corporate, governmental, and
nonprofit sectors require flexible interdisciplinary
and transdisciplinary thinking.
Critical Visual Literacy?
Interdisciplinarity?
Problem Solving?
Sounds like a job for MAPS!
So What Are My Students Doing?
Exploring: Wildlife corridors, economic impact of
hunting, educational funding
Creating: Cartographic art, campus resources,
propaganda maps for our school
Arguing: That parking isn’t so bad on our campus
So What Are My Students Doing?
Exploring: Ethics of disaster tourism, trends in
culinary tourism, boundaries of drone use
Creating: Maps for a children’s book, family
heritage scrapbook, mixtapes of place-based songs
Arguing: For small town travel by mapping
attractions
What can Gen Ed instructors do?
● Promote visual literacy through analysis and
critique of cartographic presentations of
information in your field.
● Encourage students to use maps in their
research.
● Reinforce the rhetorical nature of maps by
having them create a map. (Then make them do
What can cartographers do?
Cartographic Curiosity
Promoting Interdisciplinary Thinking
in General Education through Maps
Dr. Joy Santee
Associate Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric
McKendree University

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Cartographic Curiosity: Promoting Interdisciplinary Thinking in General Education through Maps

  • 1. Cartographic Curiosity Promoting Interdisciplinary Thinking in General Education through Maps Dr. Joy Santee Associate Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric McKendree University
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  • 5. Challenges of Critical Visual Literacy natesilver: So to return to my earlier point: What tangible difference does it make if Clinton wins nationally by 7 points and wins Arizona by a point, versus when she wins nationally by 7 points but loses Arizona by a point? harry: People look to the map to understand how big the victory was. We have a winner-take-all system. micah: Yeah, if the map everyone sees on Nov. 9 is covered in blue, doesn’t that make a difference? clare.malone: I think it’s a reasonable goal for them to want to/try to win at least one unexpected state. A spot of blue in a sea of red can be a striking visual that people walk away with. natesilver: So should they aim for states that are physically larger because they’re more impressive on the map?
  • 6. Challenges of Critical Visual Literacy clare.malone: Hah, yes. natesilver: So Alaska then? clare.malone: No. natesilver: Or not Alaska because it gets shrunken down? harry: Is this a Mercator problem? I don’t know maps. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/should-clinton-play-for-an-electoral-college-landslide/?ex_cid=2016- forecast
  • 8. Challenges of Contemporary Problem Solving Complex problems in corporate, governmental, and nonprofit sectors require flexible interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary thinking.
  • 9. Critical Visual Literacy? Interdisciplinarity? Problem Solving? Sounds like a job for MAPS!
  • 10. So What Are My Students Doing? Exploring: Wildlife corridors, economic impact of hunting, educational funding Creating: Cartographic art, campus resources, propaganda maps for our school Arguing: That parking isn’t so bad on our campus
  • 11. So What Are My Students Doing? Exploring: Ethics of disaster tourism, trends in culinary tourism, boundaries of drone use Creating: Maps for a children’s book, family heritage scrapbook, mixtapes of place-based songs Arguing: For small town travel by mapping attractions
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  • 13. What can Gen Ed instructors do? ● Promote visual literacy through analysis and critique of cartographic presentations of information in your field. ● Encourage students to use maps in their research. ● Reinforce the rhetorical nature of maps by having them create a map. (Then make them do
  • 15. Cartographic Curiosity Promoting Interdisciplinary Thinking in General Education through Maps Dr. Joy Santee Associate Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric McKendree University