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:
- 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.
- the ways in which historical and national narratives are told by monumental and representational cultures of cities.
- 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:
- apply knowledge, understanding and critical analysis to readings of the city
- define present and exemplify concepts relating to the subject
- 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:
- communicate effectively and confidently both orally and in writing
- produce academic writing to required conventions
- set and monitor goals reflecting on your own learning and learning form feedback
- 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 |
Revision | 40 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 2 |
Follow-up work | 4 |
Seminar | 12 |
Wider reading or practice | 40 |
Lecture | 12 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Smakman, D and Heinrich, P editors (2018). Urban Sociolinguistics: The City as a linguistic process and experience. Routledge.
Diarmit Mac Giolla Chriost (2007). Language and the City. Palgrave.
Deborah Stevenson (2003). Cities and Urban Cultures. Open Univ. Press.
Nadine El-Enany (2020). (B)ordering Britain. Law ,Race and Empire. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Anna Minton (2009). Ground Control Fear and Happiness in the twenty-first- century city. Penguin.
Fran Tonkiss (2006). Space, the City and Social Theory. Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2010). The Blackwell City Reader. Blackwell.
Doreen Massey at al (eds.) (1999). City Worlds. Routledge.
Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett editors (2018). The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City. Sage.
Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift (eds.) (2000). City a-z. Routledge.
Imogen Tyler (2020). Stigma The Machinery of inequality. London: ZED books.
Michael Peter Smith (2001). Transnational Urbanism Locating Globalization. Blackwell.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Research proposal | 30% |
Analytical essay | 50% |
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 |
---|---|
Analytical essay | 50% |
Research proposal | 30% |
Coursework Presentation | 20% |
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 |
---|---|
Research proposal | 30% |
Analytical essay | 50% |
Coursework Presentation | 20% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External