Undergraduate Course: Urban Cultures (GEGR10080)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Geography |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course offers undergraduate students an introduction to cultural geographical approaches to the city. The course considers a range of empirical examples and theoretical questions relevant to understanding modern cities and contemporary urban experiences. Through the example of the city, students will become familiar with some key themes in contemporary cultural geography, such as consumption, difference, representation, memory and materiality. More specifically, their cultural geographical encounter with the city will examine the following themes: cities and modernity; utopianism and its others; cities of spectacle; cities and difference; cultures of urban activism; and spectral cities. The material will be delivered drawing on key thinkers in urban studies (past and present), examples from a number of First and Third World cities, a plethora of urban experiences (from walking, to graffiti, to hauntings), as well as a range of representational media (academic texts, scientific diagrams, documentary and journalistic writings, films, music and literature). |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students who complete this course will:
Have a thorough and integrated knowledge of cultural geographical understandings of the city and will therefore understand:
o The distinctive theoretical and methodological approach of cultural geography
o What is meant by the creativity and its relevance to urban processes, past and present
o A range of urban experiences and the ways they have been theorised and researched and recent developments in this field in general
o The way the concept of 'culture' is used in urban theory and planning, past and present
Develop skills in critical reading and synthesising key urban texts and relating them to other relevant literatures
Develop skills in critically identifying and analysing complex problems
Develop skills in the oral and written presentation of ideas so that students practise making formal presentations about specialised topics to informed audiences |
Assessment Information
Class assessment: As specified in course handbook
Degree assessment: One two-hour examination (2 questions) AND one essay (2000 words) |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | GEGR10080 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Miss Ealasaid Munro
Tel: (0131 6)50 9046
Email: emunro2@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Catherine Campbell
Tel: (0131 6)50 9847
Email: cathy.campbell@ed.ac.uk |
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