SOCI392-13S2 (C) Semester Two 2013

Special topic: Sociology of the City

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 8 July 2013
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 21 July 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 October 2013

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 1 30% Essay on a topic from Section A
Essay 2 30% Essay on a topic from Section B
Reading Responses 10% From Section A (weeks 1 - 6) readings
Reading Responses 10% From Section B (weeks 7-12) readings
Criticial Engagement Exercise 20% Applying a theorist/theory to a contemporary event/issue of the city

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,288.00

International fee $5,600.00

* 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.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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