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:
- Be familiar with class and gender relations in the modernizing city
- Have an understanding of cultural practices related to urban nightlife
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically approach concepts such as ‘underworld’ or ‘nether world’
- identify and interpret secondary sources and the intellectual positions from which they were written
- analyse a wide variety of primary sources and think critically about the production of sources
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- develop your communication skills and present and discuss your findings and ideas in class
- develop your time management skills
- Have greater knowledge of the social processes of urbanisation and their reflection in literature and art
- find and analyse primary source materials and integrate them in your written work
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- produce essays relevant to the topic by using both primary and secondary sources
- identify and interpret different historiographical approaches
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 45 |
Lecture | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 20 |
Revision | 16 |
Seminar | 12 |
Follow-up work | 45 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Josh Allan Friedman (2007). Tales of Times Square. Los Angeles: Feralm House.
Lynda Nead (2000). Victorian Babylon. People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Steve Humphries (1988). A Secret World of Sex. Fordbidden Fruit: The British Experience 1900-1950. London: Sidgwick & Jackson.
Joachim Schlör (1998). Nights in the Big City. Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930. London: Reaktion Books.
Timothy J. Gilfoyle (1992). City of Eros. New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company.
Mel Gordon (2000). Voluptious Panic. The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin. Los Angeles: Feral House.
Eugène Sue (1846). The Mysteries of Paris. London: Chapman and Hall.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 60% |
Written assignment | 40% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External