SOCI392

Special topic: Sociology of the City

30 points

Occurrences

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

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