SOCI392-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014

Special topic: Sociology of the City

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2014

Description

This course is concerned with the city as it is experienced today: as shifting mixes of public and private spaces in which disruptions provoke different points of view, multiple memories and complex associations. Topics include the mobile city; mapping the ‘authentic’ city; the sentient city; the invisible city; the global city; cities as entertainment machines; nature and the city; deterritorialization and the futures of urban public space. Christchurch, as both colonial site of a neo-gothic garden city and re-imagined postcolonial site of disaster, risk and vitality, circulates throughout the course.

Prerequisites

45 points of 200 level SOCI or 30 points of 200 level SOCI with a B average or better; alternatively students with at least a B average in 60 points in 200 level courses in related subjects may be admitted to one 300 level SOCI course.

Restrictions

Lecturer

Michael Grimshaw

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Essay 30% On a topic from weekly lectures
Reading responses 10% From Section A readings
Reading responses 10% From Section B readings
Critical Engagement exercise 25% Applying a theorist/theory from Section A to Christchurch
Critical Engagement exercise 25% Applying a theorist/theory from Section B to Christchurch

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,340.00

International fee $5,700.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All SOCI392 Occurrences

  • SOCI392-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014 - Not Offered
  • SOCI392-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014
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