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City Cultures, Urban Ecologies (CULS30005)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Semester 2
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
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How have cities been imagined, navigated, and represented? What are some of the cultural, social, political, and environmental challenges that cities face in the 21st century? This subject examines how the city has been theorized as a core concept of modernity and modernization or represented through various aesthetic practices (photography, film, tv, literature, essays), moving from key cultural theorists of the city and urban life to case studies of city cultures and urban practices. By exploring everyday urban ecologies alongside creative and political interventions that transform urban life, the subject seeks to understand how cities are sites of pleasure, inclusion and diversity but also spaces of struggle, alienation and isolation.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a complex knowledge of the history and cultural processes that inform different ideas of the city.
- Apply a range of theoretical concepts informed by cultural studies to examples of urban culture and practices.
- Understand the relationship between representations of cities and the everyday practices of particular urban experiences.
- Demonstrate intellectual honesty and ethical values in the study of diverse urban cultures.
- Apply interdisciplinary cultural studies methods to the study of cities and urban culture.
- Demonstrate independent critical thought alongside generosity and curiosity about new ideas and approaches to the study of city cultures and urban ecologies.
Generic skills
- have advanced research and analysis skills;
- show critical and ethical self-awareness;
- have the ability to develop and communicate effective arguments in both oral and written form, and
- develop advanced skills in media and information literacy and management.
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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CULS30003 | City Cultures | No longer available |
Recommended background knowledge
Recommended background knowledge
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Semester 2
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Essay
| Week 5 | 40% |
Project Plan
| Week 10 | 10% |
Project (photo essay, vlog, film, essay, presentation)
| Week 12 | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum hurdle requirement of 80% attendance and regular participation in tutorials. All pieces of work must be submitted to pass this subject. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Additional details
Note: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day.
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Annisa Beta Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours , 1.5 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 August 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 August 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Semester 2 contact information
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Course reader will be provided
- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 19 April 2024