Unit name | Study and Field Skills C |
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Unit code | GEOG25150 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | . Fannin |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
All units in Single Honours Geography Year 1 |
Co-requisites |
All Geography Year 2 Syllabus C units |
School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This course is about exploring, experiencing and representing the city. Its main focus is in the linking of theory and practice through field work in a major European city. In particular it examines a particular sequence of artistic, architectural, philosophical and political movements extending from the C19th to the late C20th including literary, historical and philosophical figures such as Hausmann, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Debord, Derrida, Gaudi, Lefebvre, de Certeau and Bourdieu. Pedagogically, the course shows how a particular empirical encounter, for example with Paris or Barcelona, sources experience, inspires theory and becomes the site of particular practices which then perform the social. In more general terms it will be shown that urban movements, whether artistic, political or social, were and are transformers of modern society today. The course provides material for the basis of day-projects in the field.
On completion of this Unit students should be able to:
The following transferable skills are developed in this Unit:
Lectures, seminar-based discussions, and fieldwork
Percentage of the unit that is coursework: 100%
Selected readings:
A full reading list will be distributed at the first seminar.
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