- GM5504 - Berlin, City of the Twentieth Century
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr Janet Stewart
Pre-requisites
Availalble only to registered postgraduate students
Overview
This course will focus on how artists, critics, architects and urban planners have represented Berlin in periods of socio-political crisis and transition throughout the twentieth century. Following an initial study of theories of the city and the use, experience and representation of urban space, it will explore how the metropolitan environment was constructed and contested in a number of different periods. The course will involve the analysis of a range of source materials including cultural criticism, film, art and architecture.
Structure
1 two hour seminar per week
Assessment
Continuous assessment (100%)
- GM5505 - Art Matters: The Power of the Aesthetic
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr J Stewart
Pre-requisites
Available only to registered postgraduate students
Overview
This course explores the central role of the aesthetic in modern thought through a series of case studies and close contextual readings of key works by leading modern theorists, available for study either in the original or in English translation, as befits the academic backgroudn of individual students.
Structure
2 hours per week
Assessment
One 6,000-word essay
- GM5506 - Visualising the City
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- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr S Ward
Pre-requisites
Available only to registered postgraduate students
Overview
Drawing on a wide range of perspectives drawn from fields such as urban history and theory, sociology, and architectural history, this course will consider how the visual arts filter and shape the way we understand and interact with the urban environment. The course will examine the interplay between ephemeral constructions, lived experience and the urban imagination, through developing a number of themes, including: the city and cinematic visions of utopia/dystopia; the city and the figure of the detective/flâneur/flâneuse; the city as site of cultural encounter and social conflict; the city as site of globalisation; the city and consumption; the city and the development/reworking of the visual arts; the virtual city.
Structure
1 two hour seminar per week
Assessment
One 6,000 word essay