Politics and Urban Space: Berlin and Beyond

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• • Produce convincing arguments about politics and urban space in the form of essays and other written coursework.
• • Understand how urban space gets produced by various agents and through various processes.
• • Discuss political issues arising from the contested production of urban space.
• • Understand the various ways in which human geographers conceptualise space.

The module focuses on seven main themes, each of which is illustrated using the case of Berlin (with references to other cities too): the production of urban space; the history of Berlin; modern urbanism and architecture; nation-states and political ideologies; memory and memorials; global capital and public space; and the City A-Z and psychogeography.

Teaching and learning methods

For 2020-21, Covid-19 constraints allowing, the module will be delivered via online asynchronous lectures, online asynchronous films, online synchronous surgeries, face-to-face seminars (on Southampton campuses), and fieldwork (in the form of walking tours of Southampton).

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Reading:. Students will need to complete readings from a reading list provided. Access to all required items should be available via the University library.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External