Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the ways in which historical and national narratives are told by monumental and representational cultures of cities.
- Cities as micro-sites of historical, social political and linguistic developments and conflicts that have national and/or transnational significance.
- How key notions such as ‘nation’, ‘class’, ‘race’, ‘gender’ ‘culture’, or ‘history’ are formed, represented and reproduced in a metropolitan context.
- How cosmopolitanism and diversity are expressed in urban environments.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- define present and exemplify concepts relating to the subject
- apply knowledge, understanding and critical analysis to readings of the city
- formulate and clarify critical questions informed by theoretical approaches pertinent to the study of cities
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- set and monitor goals reflecting on your own learning and learning form feedback
- produce academic writing to required conventions
- communicate effectively and confidently both orally and in writing
- work with a range of sources taking accurate notes and keeping records
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Completion of assessment task | 40 |
| Seminar | 12 |
| Revision | 40 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 2 |
| Follow-up work | 4 |
| Wider reading or practice | 40 |
| Lecture | 12 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Michael Peter Smith (2001). Transnational Urbanism Locating ¸£Àû×ÅÆ¬ization. Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2010). The Blackwell City Reader. Blackwell.
Nadine El-Enany (2020). (B)ordering Britain. Law ,Race and Empire. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Fran Tonkiss (2006). Space, the City and Social Theory. Blackwell.
Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett editors (2018). The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City. Sage.
Doreen Massey at al (eds.) (1999). City Worlds. Routledge.
Deborah Stevenson (2003). Cities and Urban Cultures. Open Univ. Press.
Smakman, D and Heinrich, P editors (2018). Urban Sociolinguistics: The City as a linguistic process and experience. Routledge.
Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift (eds.) (2000). City a-z. Routledge.
Imogen Tyler (2020). Stigma The Machinery of inequality. London: ZED books.
Diarmit Mac Giolla Chriost (2007). Language and the City. Palgrave.
Anna Minton (2009). Ground Control Fear and Happiness in the twenty-first- century city. Penguin.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Analytical essay | 50% |
| Research proposal | 30% |
| Coursework Presentation | 20% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Research proposal | 30% |
| Coursework Presentation | 20% |
| Analytical essay | 50% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework Presentation | 20% |
| Analytical essay | 50% |
| Research proposal | 30% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External