Undergraduate Course: Utopianism: Space, Place and Social Order (OLL) (SSPS07001)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Social and Political Science |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
School (School of Social and Political Studies) |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
This course will examine various utopian (and dystopian) writings to explore their relationship to contemporary societies' uses of spaces and places, specifically as a means to attain social order and stability. It aims to demonstrate that normative understandings of how spaces should be used typically reinforce established political relationships, such as ethnic, gender and age differentiations, or class and racial inequalities, in the production of 'place' both as a physical space and a position in society. This is achieved through study of historic and contemporary writings on how to order 'a good society', especially through the medium of space.
PLEASE NOTE: This course is offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning as part of its programme of Continuing Education. The nature of delivery, and the composition of its student cohort, may differ from courses delivered solely for undergraduate students. Teaching for this course is scheduled for the evening. The assessment schedule for this course is as follows: the classroom assessment takes place at the end of the course in the week beginning 7th December and the course work essay must be submitted by 5th January. The re-sit date for the classroom assessment is 24th May. OLL's academic regulations will apply to this course. |
Entry Requirements
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
(1) read and investigate utopian literature for themselves
(2) use the appropriate language and understand concepts such as 'heterotopia'
(3) provide examples of various types of utopia and heterotopia
(4) relate 'purist' ideals to their compromised use in everyday settings
(5) think about buildings and cities in terms of underlying social relationships of power
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Assessment Information
This course will be assessed by two components:
Assessment 1: unseen classroom assessment in the final week of the course, worth 25% of the total course mark;
Assessment 2: 2000 word essay (seen assessment) submitted after the course finishes, worth 75% of the total course mark.
To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 40% in the combined mark (and a minimum of 30% in each assessment component).
Provisional marks for all assessments are released after internal moderation and approved by the Final Assessment Board which meets in the first week of August.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords |
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Contacts
| Course organiser |
Mr James Mooney
Tel:
Email: james.mooney@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Lorna Ketchion
Tel:
Email: L.Ketchion@ed.ac.uk |
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