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Focusing on major cities in Europe and the Americas, this course unit uses a range of texts, including films, poetry and fiction, to investigate urban spaces as sites of promise, power and loss. Representations of global cities, and experiences of urban dwellers, highlight themes such as empire, identity, leisure, labour and love. Set amid glittering facades and gritty back streets, the texts studied in this course explore the many meanings of the urban experience across place and time. These urban encounters also provide a way of understanding key social, political and cultural moments in the past and present.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 1 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Focusing on major cities in Europe and the Americas, this course unit uses a range of texts, including films, poetry and fiction, to investigate urban spaces as sites of promise, power and loss. Representations of global cities, and experiences of urban dwellers, highlight themes such as empire, identity, leisure, labour and love. Set amid glittering facades and gritty back streets, the texts studied in this course explore the many meanings of the urban experience across place and time. These urban encounters also provide a way of understanding key social, political and cultural moments in the past and present.
The classes include a range of activities, such as seminar discussion, close-reading of texts, scene analysis and group discussions. The course unit is based on a flipped classroom approach; independent preparation, through reading or viewing texts, is vital for full class participation. Texts are available in translation to ensure full accessibility for all students. Additionally, the course unit will incorporate elements helping students adapt to university life, such as library skills, study skills and embedded reflective practices.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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1,200 word essay plus 8 ‘explain your thinking points’, reflecting on the process of writing the essay. Detailed instructions and evaluation criteria will be provided in the course guide. Written feedback will be provided within three weeks of the submission date. |
Word Count | 1200 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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Students will create a map, using one text discussed in class, providing commentary about and analysis of the text’s key sites on their map. Detailed instructions and evaluation criteria will be provided in the course guide. Written feedback will be provided within three weeks of the submission date. |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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2,000 words + 8 explain your thinking reflective points Feedback will be provided in written form through Turnitin. |
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| Factual | Understand | Students will learn about the culture, history, society and politics of a range of cities in Europe and the Americas through selected texts. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Building on ILO2, students will evaluate the role of these texts in key moments, as artefacts which provide insight into wider social, cultural and political themes. |
| Reflection | Analyse | Students will demonstrate the capacity to obtain, analyse, and communicate information through independent research, as teams, and individually (essay and annotated map). |
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