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ANTH3003 – Anthropology of the City
2020 – Session 2, Special circumstance
Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group learning activities on campus for the second half-year, while keeping an online version available for those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
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General Information
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convener and lecturer
Lucinda Casbolt
Contact via 0298502077
Department of Anthropology, Level 5, 25B Wally's Walk
On appointment
Payel Ray
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| Credit points |
Credit points
10
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
130cp at 1000 level or above
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| Corequisites |
Corequisites
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| Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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| Unit description |
Unit description
How might we think about the relationships between the built environment, culture, and individual or collective identity? What makes a city socialist, Islamic or modern? What impact do these varied forms of urban organisation and architecture have on the inhabitants that dwell in them? This unit introduces students to the anthropology of the city through focusing on the organisation of space and the politics of architectural forms and urban planning. It explores how space and its design are intimately connected to particular modernist projects such as nationalism, colonialism, socialism and apartheid. Students consider a variety of anthropological perspectives that seek to explain the amazing diversity and surprising similarity of urban cultures and their spatial forms, as well as ways that the built environment might both express and generate culture, power and individual or collective identities.
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- ULO1: Account for the diversity of urban environments.
- ULO2: Identify relations between built form, culture, and individuals’ experiences of space.
- ULO3: Analyse how architectural forms, modernist urban planning, and people’s use of space are articulated with particular political projects of nationalism, colonialism, and socialism.
- ULO4: Apply the concerns of various anthropological writings to contemporary processes of spatial design and groups’ or individuals’ perception and use of space.
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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| Take-Home Test | 25% | No | TBA |
| Tutorial Participation | 20% | No | TBA |
| Major Essay | 40% | No | TBA |
| Reflective Writing | 15% | No | TBA |
Take-Home Test
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: TBA
Weighting: 25%
This take-home exam will be distributed at the lecture in Week 11 and will be due back at the lecture of Week 12. The exam will consist of a combination of short answers to questions that link together topics and themes covered in lectures, tutorials and practical activities throughout the course.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Account for the diversity of urban environments.
- Apply the concerns of various anthropological writings to contemporary processes of spatial design and groups’ or individuals’ perception and use of space.
Tutorial Participation
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 24 hours
Due: TBA
Weighting: 20%
Students participate in tutorial discussions. Tutorial preparation involves a couple of hours of pleasurable (!) reading a week.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Account for the diversity of urban environments.
- Identify relations between built form, culture, and individuals’ experiences of space.
Major Essay
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 50 hours
Due: TBA
Weighting: 40%
The essay should critically assess the course readings in relation to five essay questions. The focus should be on one reading of your selected urban sites or cities, so that the reader gets a clear sense of the key actors involved in the design of its spatial features. The essay should reflect spatially illuminating use of ideas and perspectives presented in the course, including from lectures, tutorial readings and recommended readings.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Identify relations between built form, culture, and individuals’ experiences of space.
- Analyse how architectural forms, modernist urban planning, and people’s use of space are articulated with particular political projects of nationalism, colonialism, and socialism.
- Apply the concerns of various anthropological writings to contemporary processes of spatial design and groups’ or individuals’ perception and use of space.
Reflective Writing
Assessment Type 1: Reflective Writing
Indicative Time on Task 2: 18 hours
Due: TBA
Weighting: 15%
Write an analytic reflection on the organisation of space in St Marys Cathedral. Preliminary references include the tutorial and secondary readings
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Identify relations between built form, culture, and individuals’ experiences of space.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
- the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
- the Writing Centre for academic skills support.
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
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